Cyber Threat Intelligence Contracts in England

Cyber Threat Intelligence
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cyber Threat Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 543 702
Rank change year-on-year +191 +159 -157
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence 181 97 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.20% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.22% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 63 42
10th Percentile £500 £450 £403
25th Percentile £540 £519 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £825 £694 £675
90th Percentile £850 £780 £785
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cyber Threat Intelligence 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 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cyber Threat Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in England

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence in England.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in England

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat Intelligence in England

Cyber Threat Intelligence
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 Cyber Threat Intelligence within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
South West +73 73 £570 -8.80% 8
North of England +81 56 £850 +21.43% 17
North West +61 42 £850 +58.14% 5
London +77 29 £550 -4.35% 27
Midlands +29 19 £625 -1.96% 4
South East +38 16 £540 -13.60% 7
West Midlands +32 16 £625 -3.85% 3
Yorkshire +23 14 £582 -16.86% 12
East Midlands +11 3 - - 1
Cyber Threat Intelligence
UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
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 17 (9.39%) Azure
2 13 (7.18%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (2.76%) AWS
4 3 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.10%) Mimecast
5 2 (1.10%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 50 (27.62%) Firewall
2 41 (22.65%) VPN
3 11 (6.08%) Network Security
4 9 (4.97%) Wireless
5 2 (1.10%) Intranet
5 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.10%) Power BI
3 1 (0.55%) Big Data
3 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Git
General
1 67 (37.02%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (9.94%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.39%) Finance
5 16 (8.84%) Telecoms
6 13 (7.18%) Banking
7 8 (4.42%) Military
8 6 (3.31%) Legal
9 1 (0.55%) Electronics
9 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Law
9 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 84 (46.41%) Analyst
2 44 (24.31%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 43 (23.76%) Lead
4 42 (23.20%) Architect
5 37 (20.44%) Technical Architect
6 29 (16.02%) Lead Architect
6 29 (16.02%) Technical Leader
7 23 (12.71%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 22 (12.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 16 (8.84%) Cyber Defence Analyst
10 14 (7.73%) Security Analyst
11 10 (5.52%) SOC Analyst
12 8 (4.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 7 (3.87%) Cloud Architect
14 6 (3.31%) Senior
15 5 (2.76%) Digital Architect
15 5 (2.76%) Digital Technical Architect
16 4 (2.21%) Senior Analyst
17 3 (1.66%) Consultant
17 3 (1.66%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (22.65%) Node.js
2 9 (4.97%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.66%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 99 (54.70%) Cyber Threat
2 58 (32.04%) Cyber Defence
3 53 (29.28%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 49 (27.07%) Management Information System
5 28 (15.47%) Public Cloud
6 16 (8.84%) Security Posture
7 15 (8.29%) Security Operations Centre
8 10 (5.52%) Operational Technology
8 10 (5.52%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.76%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.76%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.10%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.55%) CSOC
11 1 (0.55%) Insider Threat
11 1 (0.55%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 52 (28.73%) Windows
2 41 (22.65%) Android
2 41 (22.65%) Apple iOS
2 41 (22.65%) Windows Server
3 13 (7.18%) Linux
4 2 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 123 (67.96%) Cybersecurity
3 87 (48.07%) SIEM
4 75 (41.44%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 68 (37.57%) Security Operations
6 66 (36.46%) SOAR
7 63 (34.81%) Incident Response
8 62 (34.25%) Risk Management
9 55 (30.39%) Information Security
10 47 (25.97%) Incident Management
10 47 (25.97%) Use Case
11 46 (25.41%) Root Cause Analysis
12 45 (24.86%) Case Management
12 45 (24.86%) CI/CD
12 45 (24.86%) Mentoring
12 45 (24.86%) Security Architecture
13 44 (24.31%) Protective Monitoring
14 41 (22.65%) Cyber Intelligence
14 41 (22.65%) Mobile Device Management
14 41 (22.65%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.97%) Kusto Query Language
2 7 (3.87%) Search Processing Language
3 5 (2.76%) Python
4 2 (1.10%) C
4 2 (1.10%) C++
4 2 (1.10%) Java
4 2 (1.10%) Perl
4 2 (1.10%) Ruby
4 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 123 (67.96%) Security Cleared
2 84 (46.41%) DV Cleared
3 40 (22.10%) SC Cleared
4 19 (10.50%) CISSP
5 9 (4.97%) OSCP
6 8 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.42%) Degree
7 7 (3.87%) CEH
8 6 (3.31%) GREM
8 6 (3.31%) GSEC
9 5 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.66%) CISM
10 3 (1.66%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.10%) CREST Certified
11 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.55%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.55%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (28.18%) NIST
2 39 (21.55%) NIST 800
3 9 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.31%) GDPR
5 5 (2.76%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.21%) SLA
7 2 (1.10%) GRC
7 2 (1.10%) NCSC
8 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.31%) Kibana
1 6 (3.31%) logstash
2 3 (1.66%) Ansible
2 3 (1.66%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.66%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.66%) Terraform
3 1 (0.55%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 61 (33.70%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.87%) Splunk
3 5 (2.76%) Apple
3 5 (2.76%) Google
4 3 (1.66%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.10%) Cybereason
5 2 (1.10%) Netskope
5 2 (1.10%) Qualys
5 2 (1.10%) Rapid7
5 2 (1.10%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.10%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.55%) Intel
6 1 (0.55%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.55%) SAP
6 1 (0.55%) Symantec
6 1 (0.55%) VMware