Threat Management Contracts in England

Threat Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Threat Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Management over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 601 719
Rank change year-on-year +85 +118 -136
Contract jobs citing Threat Management 30 41 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.083% 0.085% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.094% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 32
10th Percentile £420 - £459
25th Percentile £508 £486 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +11.59%
75th Percentile £863 £830 £750
90th Percentile £938 £1,052 £800
UK median daily rate £700 £538 £650
% change year-on-year +30.23% -17.31% +11.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Threat Management 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 31,440 43,538 63,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.46% 90.17% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,583 30,556 45,375
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
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% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,239 1,538 1,750
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +6.79%
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% +4.82%

Threat Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Management in England

Threat Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Management in England

Threat Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Management in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Management in England

Threat Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Management in England

Threat Management
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 Threat Management within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
London +94 21 £700 -15.66% 5
North West +18 8 £700 +44.03%
North of England +17 8 £700 +44.03%
Threat Management
UK

Threat Management
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:

Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (43.33%) Firewall
2 11 (36.67%) LAN
2 11 (36.67%) WAN
3 10 (33.33%) BGP
3 10 (33.33%) OSPF
3 10 (33.33%) VPN
3 10 (33.33%) Wireless
3 10 (33.33%) WLAN
4 8 (26.67%) IPsec
5 4 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (13.33%) Cisco Wireless
6 3 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (3.33%) DMZ
7 1 (3.33%) DNS
7 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
7 1 (3.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Network Specialist
2 6 (20.00%) Security Manager
3 4 (13.33%) Project Manager
3 4 (13.33%) SCCM Specialist
3 4 (13.33%) Security Project Manager
3 4 (13.33%) Vulnerability Specialist
4 3 (10.00%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Security Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) SOC Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Network Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Network Team Leader
6 1 (3.33%) Portfolio Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) PKI
2 3 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 3 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.33%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
1 6 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
2 4 (13.33%) Unix
3 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (26.67%) Cloud Security
2 8 (26.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 7 (23.33%) Application Security
3 7 (23.33%) Data Strategy
3 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.00%) Business Case
4 6 (20.00%) Business Development
4 6 (20.00%) Change Management
4 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (20.00%) Pricing Strategy
5 5 (16.67%) Agile
5 5 (16.67%) ITIL
5 5 (16.67%) Migration
5 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (13.33%) ITSM
6 4 (13.33%) Security Testing
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) CISSP
1 8 (26.67%) Degree
2 7 (23.33%) CISA
2 7 (23.33%) CISM
2 7 (23.33%) Master's Degree
2 7 (23.33%) MBA
3 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.33%) GREM
4 1 (3.33%) GSEC
4 1 (3.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) SLA
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) NIST
2 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) SCCM
2 4 (13.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (33.33%) Cisco
3 9 (30.00%) Fortinet
3 9 (30.00%) Juniper
3 9 (30.00%) Palo Alto
4 6 (20.00%) Extreme Networks
4 6 (20.00%) Qualys
5 5 (16.67%) VMware
6 3 (10.00%) Intel
7 1 (3.33%) CA
7 1 (3.33%) Cybereason
7 1 (3.33%) Google
7 1 (3.33%) Meraki
7 1 (3.33%) Sophos