Threat Detection Contracts in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Threat Detection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Detection over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 397 468
Rank change year-on-year +29 +71 -40
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 27 40 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.20% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 26
10th Percentile £535 £463 £481
25th Percentile £550 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -1.29%
75th Percentile £635 £575 £688
90th Percentile £684 £617 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £566 £625
% change year-on-year +6.01% -9.44% +28.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.13
25th Percentile - - £49.41
Median hourly rate - - £50.49
75th Percentile - - £51.28
90th Percentile - - £51.38
UK median hourly rate - - £50.49

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Threat Detection 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 17,041 20,494 27,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.15% 89.42% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,189 14,100 19,120
10th Percentile £250 £259 £236
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,063 1,256 1,368
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.34 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.29
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.73 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Threat Detection in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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 +20 13 £600 +3.00% 1
Midlands +30 11 £645 +29.00% 2
West Midlands +23 11 £645 +29.00% 1
North West +12 2 £750 +32.61% 8
North of England -1 2 £750 +36.36% 12
South East +17 1 £500 -18.37% 3
Threat Detection
UK

Threat Detection
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
3 5 (18.52%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (14.81%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.70%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 13 (48.15%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Electronics
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Analyst
2 12 (44.44%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Security Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) SOC Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) SOC Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Applications Tester
6 1 (3.70%) Information Security Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) IT Security Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Penetration Tester
6 1 (3.70%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Senior
6 1 (3.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (48.15%) Security Posture
2 9 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (18.52%) Management Information System
4 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
4 4 (14.81%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (14.81%) Public Cloud
4 4 (14.81%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (7.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (7.41%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (51.85%) Incident Response
3 13 (48.15%) SIEM
4 11 (40.74%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 11 (40.74%) Security Operations
4 11 (40.74%) Threat Intelligence
5 8 (29.63%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (25.93%) Use Case
6 7 (25.93%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 6 (22.22%) Analytics
7 6 (22.22%) Change Management
7 6 (22.22%) Cloud Security
7 6 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (18.52%) Security Architecture
9 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
9 4 (14.81%) Digital Strategy
9 4 (14.81%) Information Security
9 4 (14.81%) Penetration Testing
9 4 (14.81%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (22.22%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 15 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) CISSP
2 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Degree
3 3 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.41%) CEH
4 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.70%) CREST Certified
5 1 (3.70%) OSCP
5 1 (3.70%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (33.33%) NIST
2 7 (25.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (18.52%) NCSC
4 3 (11.11%) GDPR
5 2 (7.41%) SLA
6 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
6 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 2 (7.41%) Kibana
2 2 (7.41%) logstash
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 11 (40.74%) Splunk
3 2 (7.41%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (7.41%) Rapid7
3 2 (7.41%) Sophos
4 1 (3.70%) Netskope
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Zscaler