Advanced Persistent Threat Contracts in England

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Advanced Persistent Threat skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Advanced Persistent Threat over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 636 770
Rank change year-on-year +92 +134 -125
Contract jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat 7 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.002% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.002% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £444 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% +11.11% -35.71%
75th Percentile £634 - £588
90th Percentile £763 - £625
UK median daily rate £543 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +8.50% +11.11% -35.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Advanced Persistent Threat 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Advanced Persistent Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Advanced Persistent Threat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Advanced Persistent Threat in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat in England.

Daily rate trend for Advanced Persistent Threat in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Advanced Persistent Threat in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat in England.

Hourly rate trend for Advanced Persistent Threat in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
London - 2 £600 - 3
North West - 2 £450 - 2
South West - 2 £668 -
North of England - 2 £450 - 2
South East - 1 £500 -
Advanced Persistent Threat
UK

Advanced Persistent Threat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) Wireless
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) HTTPS
3 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (14.29%) IPsec
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) VoIP
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Compliance
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Information
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Information Security
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Security
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Handler
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Responder
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
1 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (28.57%) Cyberattack
2 2 (28.57%) Insider Threat
2 2 (28.57%) Operational Technology
3 1 (14.29%) Cybercrime
3 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
3 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Open Source
3 3 (42.86%) OSINT
3 3 (42.86%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Cyber Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (14.29%) Line Management
5 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CISM
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft