Advanced Persistent Threat Contracts

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Advanced Persistent Threat skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Advanced Persistent Threat over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 689 853
Rank change year-on-year +125 +164 -148
Contract jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat 6 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.002% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.002% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% +11.11% -35.71%
75th Percentile £650 - £550
90th Percentile £785 - £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 - £600

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Advanced Persistent Threat 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

Advanced Persistent Threat
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Advanced Persistent Threat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Advanced Persistent Threat in the UK

Advanced Persistent Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat.

Daily rate trend for Advanced Persistent Threat in the UK

Advanced Persistent Threat
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Advanced Persistent Threat in the UK

Advanced Persistent Threat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat.

Hourly rate trend for Advanced Persistent Threat in the UK

Advanced Persistent Threat
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England +99 6 £585 +17.00% 2
UK excluding London - 4 £518 - 2
Work from Home - 3 £450 - 2
London - 2 £600 -
North West - 2 £450 - 2
South West - 2 £668 -
North of England - 2 £450 - 2

Advanced Persistent Threat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
3 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Compliance
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Information
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Information Security
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Security
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Handler
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Responder
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (33.33%) Cyberattack
2 2 (33.33%) Insider Threat
2 2 (33.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) OSINT
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Red Team
5 1 (16.67%) SIEM
5 1 (16.67%) Social Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 Advanced Persistent Threat jobs Nationwide