Threat Intelligence Contracts in the North West

Threat Intelligence
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Threat Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 122 173
Rank change year-on-year +37 +51 -41
Contract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 48 31 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.81% 1.01% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.12% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 24 5
10th Percentile £464 £533 £762
25th Percentile £775 £586 £773
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £604 £800
Median % change year-on-year +40.67% -24.47% +37.34%
75th Percentile - £632 -
90th Percentile - £1,350 £811
England median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,271 2,757 3,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.70% 90.10% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,445 1,933 2,578
10th Percentile £308 £313 £240
25th Percentile £405 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 138 167
10th Percentile £10.97 £16.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.02 £23.06
Median % change year-on-year -25.75% +51.88% +27.68%
75th Percentile £46.18 £48.56 £51.12
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +8.70%

Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Intelligence in the North West

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Threat Intelligence in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Threat Intelligence in the North West

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Intelligence in the North West over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in the North West

Threat Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Intelligence within the North West region over the 6 months to 22 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
Manchester +57 46 £850 -34.62% 6
Lancashire 0 1 £975 +62.23% 1
Cheshire -10 1 £567 -6.44%
Threat Intelligence
England

Threat Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (6.25%) Azure
1 3 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (2.08%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (85.42%) Firewall
2 40 (83.33%) VPN
3 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
General
1 6 (12.50%) Legal
1 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.17%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (85.42%) Architect
2 36 (75.00%) Technical Architect
3 29 (60.42%) Lead
3 29 (60.42%) Lead Architect
4 28 (58.33%) Technical Leader
5 7 (14.58%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (10.42%) Digital Architect
6 5 (10.42%) Digital Technical Architect
7 4 (8.33%) Analyst
8 3 (6.25%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 2 (4.17%) Lead Cloud Architect
9 2 (4.17%) Lead Security Architect
9 2 (4.17%) Security Architect
10 1 (2.08%) Consultant
10 1 (2.08%) Firewall Architect
10 1 (2.08%) IT Engineer
10 1 (2.08%) Security Engineer
10 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow Developer
10 1 (2.08%) SOC Analyst
10 1 (2.08%) SOC Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (83.33%) Node.js
2 1 (2.08%) Ajax
2 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.08%) CSS
2 1 (2.08%) HTML
2 1 (2.08%) JSON
2 1 (2.08%) SOAP
2 1 (2.08%) Web Services
2 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (56.25%) Public Cloud
2 9 (18.75%) Product Ownership
3 5 (10.42%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.08%) CMDB
5 1 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.08%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 41 (85.42%) Windows
2 40 (83.33%) Android
2 40 (83.33%) Apple iOS
2 40 (83.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (87.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 41 (85.42%) Risk Management
2 41 (85.42%) Security Architecture
3 40 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 40 (83.33%) Mobile Device Management
3 40 (83.33%) Zero Trust
4 29 (60.42%) Agile
5 28 (58.33%) Design Patterns
5 28 (58.33%) DevOps
6 12 (25.00%) Microservices
7 10 (20.83%) Roadmaps
8 9 (18.75%) Product Strategy
8 9 (18.75%) Strategic Roadmap
9 7 (14.58%) Product Roadmap
9 7 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (14.58%) User Experience
10 5 (10.42%) Incident Response
11 4 (8.33%) Containerisation
11 4 (8.33%) Security Operations
11 4 (8.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
1 2 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (2.08%) Bash
2 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (47.92%) Security Cleared
2 22 (45.83%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (6.25%) CISM
4 3 (6.25%) CISSP
5 1 (2.08%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.08%) NCSC
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Apple
1 5 (10.42%) Google
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow