Threat Detection Contracts in the West Midlands

Threat Detection
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection 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 96 136
Rank change year-on-year +2 +40 +35
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 3 15 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.77% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.92% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £608 £395
25th Percentile £625 £609 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £635 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +27.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £645 £531
90th Percentile - £695 £535
England median daily rate £575 £600 £566
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.01% -16.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Threat Detection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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
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 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
Birmingham +10 1 - - 3
Coventry - 1 - - 2
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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DSL
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Modbus
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Security Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Security Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
1 2 (66.67%) SCADA
2 1 (33.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (33.33%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
1 1 (33.33%) logstash
1 1 (33.33%) QRadar
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk