Threat Detection Contracts in the West Midlands

Threat Detection
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Threat Detection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Detection over the 6 months to 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 142 167
Rank change year-on-year +47 +25 -43
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 15 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.78% 0.12% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.14% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £608 £395 -
25th Percentile £609 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% - -
75th Percentile £645 £531 £519
90th Percentile £695 £535 £530
England median daily rate £600 £566 £675
% change year-on-year +6.01% -16.15% +39.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Threat Detection is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,606 2,153 3,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.56% 88.06% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,064 1,481 2,428
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £408 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +18.18%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £575
90th Percentile £729 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 45 71
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.31 £13.64
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +7.39% -8.33%
75th Percentile £40.38 £23.22 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.00 £47.00 £24.25
England median hourly rate £34.25 £36.65 £23.96
% change year-on-year -6.55% +53.01% -0.19%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the West Midlands

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in the West Midlands

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in the West Midlands

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 April 2024. 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
Birmingham - 8 £700 -
Threat Detection
England

Threat Detection
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 7 (46.67%) Azure
1 7 (46.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) Network Security
3 3 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Analyst
1 8 (53.33%) SOC Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Management Information System
2 5 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (33.33%) Security Posture
3 4 (26.67%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (13.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 9 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 9 (60.00%) SIEM
3 7 (46.67%) Computer Science
3 7 (46.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (46.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 5 (33.33%) Analytics
4 5 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 5 (33.33%) Data Analytics
4 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
5 2 (13.33%) Information Security
5 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (13.33%) Protective Monitoring
5 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) Security Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) SC Cleared
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) CISSP
2 7 (46.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (46.67%) Degree
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 5 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (13.33%) CEH
4 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kibana
1 2 (13.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Rapid7
2 2 (13.33%) Sophos