Cyber Kill Chain Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cyber Kill Chain
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 420 488
Rank change year-on-year +107 +68 -58
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 72 26 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.11% 0.056%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.23% 0.35% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 17 15
10th Percentile £513 £495 -
25th Percentile £538 £585 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +16.40%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £794
90th Percentile - £710 £808
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £563
% change year-on-year -7.69% +15.56% -13.46%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Cyber Kill Chain is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,875 7,451 9,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.91% 32.43% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,530 5,010 6,751
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £378 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £670
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 719 422 451
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.38
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -11.81%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £46.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.90 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +5.33%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cyber Kill Chain as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Kill Chain in the UK excluding London

Cyber Kill Chain
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Kill Chain in the UK excluding London

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Kill Chain in the UK excluding London

Cyber Kill Chain
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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 +38 37 £582 - 1
South East +37 25 £583 -16.71% 4
North of England +39 24 £788 +34.39% 1
Yorkshire - 22 £800 -
Midlands +37 15 £600 -7.69%
West Midlands +32 15 £600 -7.69%
North West +7 2 £763 +30.12% 1
Scotland - 1 £775 -
East of England - 1 £453 -
Cyber Kill Chain
UK

Cyber Kill Chain
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.72%) Azure
2 4 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
3 2 (2.78%) AWS
3 2 (2.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) Firewall
1 3 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (1.39%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.39%) tcpdump
2 1 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 56 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.89%) Public Sector
2 10 (13.89%) Telecoms
3 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.56%) Finance
5 3 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.39%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 22 (30.56%) Analyst
2 17 (23.61%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 14 (19.44%) Lead
4 11 (15.28%) Consultant
4 11 (15.28%) SIEM Consultant
5 5 (6.94%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Architect
6 3 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (4.17%) Security Analyst
6 3 (4.17%) Security Architect
7 2 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 2 (2.78%) Security Manager
7 2 (2.78%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) SOC Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) Data Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) Incident Analyst
8 1 (1.39%) Incident Manager
8 1 (1.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.17%) Kafka
2 2 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.78%) OAuth
2 2 (2.78%) OpenID
2 2 (2.78%) Regular Expression
2 2 (2.78%) SAML
3 1 (1.39%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 58 (80.56%) Cyber Threat
2 57 (79.17%) Cyber Defence
3 33 (45.83%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.39%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Linux
1 4 (5.56%) Windows
2 3 (4.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (93.06%) SIEM
2 61 (84.72%) Cybersecurity
3 58 (80.56%) Incident Response
3 58 (80.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 56 (77.78%) Incident Management
4 56 (77.78%) Protective Monitoring
5 45 (62.50%) Mentoring
6 41 (56.94%) Use Case
7 40 (55.56%) Case Management
7 40 (55.56%) SOAR
8 39 (54.17%) Information Security
9 38 (52.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 38 (52.78%) Root Cause Analysis
9 38 (52.78%) Threat Intelligence
10 34 (47.22%) CRM
11 11 (15.28%) Vulnerability Management
12 6 (8.33%) Security Operations
13 5 (6.94%) Ethical Hacking
13 5 (6.94%) Security Architecture
14 4 (5.56%) Data Security
Qualifications
1 61 (84.72%) Security Cleared
2 54 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.78%) BC Cleared
4 2 (2.78%) CASP
4 2 (2.78%) CEH
4 2 (2.78%) CISSP
4 2 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.78%) Degree
4 2 (2.78%) GCED
4 2 (2.78%) GIAC
4 2 (2.78%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (70.83%) NIST
2 47 (65.28%) NIST 800
3 3 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Snort
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) Kibana
2 2 (2.78%) logstash
Vendors
1 59 (81.94%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.56%) Splunk
3 3 (4.17%) F5
3 3 (4.17%) Qualys
4 2 (2.78%) Citrix
4 2 (2.78%) LogRhythm
4 2 (2.78%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.78%) TippingPoint
4 2 (2.78%) Trend Micro
5 1 (1.39%) Google