Cyber Threat Contracts in the West Midlands

Cyber Threats
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 98 131
Rank change year-on-year +4 +33 +20
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 3 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.67% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 2.01% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - £533 £519
25th Percentile - £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £582 £588
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -1.02% +23.68%
75th Percentile - £646 £666
90th Percentile - £661 £688
England median daily rate £539 £590 £623
% change year-on-year -8.69% -5.22% +3.75%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

Cyber Threat falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 418 647 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.08% 33.23% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 410 525
10th Percentile £197 £307 £263
25th Percentile £406 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £632 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 47 19
10th Percentile £16.23 £10.42 £17.10
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.71 £17.99
Median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%
75th Percentile £31.49 £40.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.50
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Cyber Threat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the West Midlands

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Threat in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in the West Midlands

Cyber Threat
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warwickshire - 2 - - 2
Coventry - 1 £600 - 1
Cyber Threat
England

Cyber Threat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Management
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CEH
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Proofpoint