Cyber Threat Intelligence Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat Intelligence
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 254 393 465
Rank change year-on-year +139 +72 -67
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence 140 51 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.22% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.25% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 34 29
10th Percentile £523 £525 £398
25th Percentile £559 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £825 £675 £675
90th Percentile £850 £785 £790
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,047 20,460 27,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.14% 89.36% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,194 14,069 18,950
10th Percentile £250 £260 £237
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year - +3.73% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,072 1,252 1,360
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.29 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat Intelligence
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 Threat Intelligence within the UK excluding London 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
South West +82 74 £570 -8.80% 13
North of England +82 56 £850 +21.43% 19
North West +60 42 £850 +58.14% 6
Midlands +27 16 £538 -15.61% 3
South East +19 16 £540 -13.60% 6
Yorkshire +23 14 £582 -16.86% 13
West Midlands +28 13 £538 -17.23% 2
Scotland +34 3 £575 -22.03% 2
East Midlands +5 3 - - 1
Cyber Threat Intelligence
UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
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 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (7.14%) Azure
2 8 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (3.57%) AWS
4 1 (0.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (0.71%) GCP
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.71%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 45 (32.14%) Firewall
2 40 (28.57%) VPN
3 8 (5.71%) Network Security
4 7 (5.00%) Wireless
5 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.71%) Big Data
2 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Git
1 1 (0.71%) JIRA
General
1 62 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 14 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.43%) Finance
6 8 (5.71%) Military
7 6 (4.29%) Banking
7 6 (4.29%) Legal
8 1 (0.71%) Electronics
8 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 62 (44.29%) Analyst
2 42 (30.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 41 (29.29%) Lead
4 40 (28.57%) Architect
5 36 (25.71%) Technical Architect
6 28 (20.00%) Lead Architect
6 28 (20.00%) Technical Leader
7 20 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Analyst
7 20 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
8 14 (10.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
9 7 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (3.57%) Digital Architect
10 5 (3.57%) Digital Technical Architect
11 4 (2.86%) Security Analyst
11 4 (2.86%) Senior
11 4 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (2.86%) SOC Analyst
12 3 (2.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 2 (1.43%) Security Advisor
13 2 (1.43%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (28.57%) Node.js
2 3 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 78 (55.71%) Cyber Threat
2 44 (31.43%) Cyber Defence
3 42 (30.00%) Management Information System
4 37 (26.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 27 (19.29%) Public Cloud
6 12 (8.57%) Security Posture
7 11 (7.86%) Security Operations Centre
8 10 (7.14%) Product Ownership
9 9 (6.43%) Operational Technology
10 5 (3.57%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.43%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.71%) CSOC
12 1 (0.71%) Cyberattack
12 1 (0.71%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 44 (31.43%) Windows
2 40 (28.57%) Android
2 40 (28.57%) Apple iOS
2 40 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 89 (63.57%) Cybersecurity
3 71 (50.71%) SIEM
4 62 (44.29%) SOAR
5 58 (41.43%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 53 (37.86%) Risk Management
7 50 (35.71%) Security Operations
8 47 (33.57%) Incident Response
9 44 (31.43%) Information Security
10 42 (30.00%) CI/CD
10 42 (30.00%) Security Architecture
11 40 (28.57%) Mobile Device Management
11 40 (28.57%) Use Case
11 40 (28.57%) Zero Trust
12 39 (27.86%) Mentoring
13 38 (27.14%) Cyber Intelligence
13 38 (27.14%) Incident Management
14 37 (26.43%) Case Management
15 36 (25.71%) Root Cause Analysis
16 35 (25.00%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (3.57%) Search Processing Language
3 3 (2.14%) Python
4 1 (0.71%) Bash
4 1 (0.71%) C
4 1 (0.71%) C++
4 1 (0.71%) Java
4 1 (0.71%) Perl
4 1 (0.71%) Ruby
4 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 103 (73.57%) Security Cleared
2 71 (50.71%) DV Cleared
3 32 (22.86%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.29%) CISSP
5 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.86%) Degree
6 3 (2.14%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.14%) CEH
6 3 (2.14%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.43%) OSCP
8 1 (0.71%) CCNA
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.71%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.71%) GIAC
8 1 (0.71%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (29.29%) NIST
2 35 (25.00%) NIST 800
3 7 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.14%) GDPR
5 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.71%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.43%) Kibana
1 2 (1.43%) logstash
2 1 (0.71%) Ansible
2 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.57%) Apple
2 5 (3.57%) Google
2 5 (3.57%) Splunk
3 2 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (1.43%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.71%) Netskope
4 1 (0.71%) Qualys
4 1 (0.71%) Rapid7
4 1 (0.71%) SAP
4 1 (0.71%) Zscaler