Cyber Threat Intelligence Contracts

Cyber Threat Intelligence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 593 776
Rank change year-on-year +199 +183 -214
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence 199 126 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.21% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.24% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 65 45
10th Percentile £510 £454 £410
25th Percentile £554 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £819 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £792 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +6.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cyber Threat Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 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 +186 179 £600 -4.00% 72
UK excluding London +158 146 £600 -4.00% 43
South West +86 72 £570 -8.80% 10
North of England +73 56 £850 +21.43% 12
North West +59 42 £850 +58.14% 5
Work from Home +108 33 £615 -5.38% 34
London +76 28 £550 -6.38% 32
Midlands +37 21 £615 -3.53% 5
West Midlands +36 18 £615 -5.38% 3
South East +28 15 £520 -16.80% 7
Yorkshire +29 14 £582 -16.86% 7
Scotland +35 7 £575 -22.03% 3
East Midlands +20 3 - - 2

Cyber Threat Intelligence
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.08%) Azure
2 26 (13.07%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (2.51%) AWS
4 3 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.01%) Mimecast
5 2 (1.01%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 59 (29.65%) Firewall
2 41 (20.60%) VPN
3 20 (10.05%) Network Security
4 9 (4.52%) Wireless
5 2 (1.01%) Intranet
5 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.01%) Power BI
3 1 (0.50%) Big Data
3 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (1.01%) JIRA
2 1 (0.50%) Git
General
1 69 (34.67%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.56%) Public Sector
4 16 (8.04%) Finance
5 15 (7.54%) Telecoms
6 12 (6.03%) Banking
7 8 (4.02%) Military
8 6 (3.02%) Legal
9 1 (0.50%) Electronics
9 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Law
9 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 87 (43.72%) Analyst
2 44 (22.11%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 43 (21.61%) Lead
4 42 (21.11%) Architect
5 37 (18.59%) Technical Architect
6 29 (14.57%) Lead Architect
6 29 (14.57%) Technical Leader
7 23 (11.56%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 22 (11.06%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 16 (8.04%) Cyber Defence Analyst
10 14 (7.04%) Security Analyst
11 13 (6.53%) SOC Analyst
12 9 (4.52%) SOC Engineer
13 8 (4.02%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 7 (3.52%) Cloud Architect
14 7 (3.52%) Senior
15 6 (3.02%) Security Advisor
16 5 (2.51%) Digital Architect
16 5 (2.51%) Digital Technical Architect
17 4 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.60%) Node.js
2 12 (6.03%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.51%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 106 (53.27%) Cyber Threat
2 63 (31.66%) Management Information System
3 61 (30.65%) Cyber Defence
4 56 (28.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 28 (14.07%) Public Cloud
6 27 (13.57%) Security Operations Centre
7 26 (13.07%) Security Posture
8 13 (6.53%) Product Ownership
9 10 (5.03%) Operational Technology
10 7 (3.52%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.51%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.01%) Cloud Native
12 2 (1.01%) Cyberattack
12 2 (1.01%) Distributed Applications
13 1 (0.50%) CSOC
13 1 (0.50%) Insider Threat
13 1 (0.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 52 (26.13%) Windows
2 41 (20.60%) Android
2 41 (20.60%) Apple iOS
2 41 (20.60%) Windows Server
3 13 (6.53%) Linux
4 2 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 142 (71.36%) Cybersecurity
3 99 (49.75%) SIEM
4 82 (41.21%) Security Operations
5 77 (38.69%) Incident Response
5 77 (38.69%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 66 (33.17%) Risk Management
6 66 (33.17%) SOAR
7 56 (28.14%) Information Security
8 50 (25.13%) Incident Management
9 49 (24.62%) Root Cause Analysis
9 49 (24.62%) Security Architecture
10 48 (24.12%) Case Management
11 47 (23.62%) Protective Monitoring
12 46 (23.12%) Cyber Intelligence
12 46 (23.12%) Use Case
13 44 (22.11%) CI/CD
13 44 (22.11%) Mentoring
14 41 (20.60%) Mobile Device Management
14 41 (20.60%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.54%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (3.02%) Search Processing Language
3 5 (2.51%) Python
4 2 (1.01%) C
4 2 (1.01%) C++
4 2 (1.01%) Java
4 2 (1.01%) Perl
4 2 (1.01%) Ruby
4 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 134 (67.34%) Security Cleared
2 88 (44.22%) DV Cleared
3 50 (25.13%) SC Cleared
4 32 (16.08%) CISSP
5 20 (10.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (10.05%) Degree
6 12 (6.03%) Azure Certification
6 12 (6.03%) CompTIA Security+
7 11 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (5.03%) CEH
9 9 (4.52%) OSCP
10 7 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (3.02%) GREM
11 6 (3.02%) GSEC
12 2 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.01%) CISM
12 2 (1.01%) CREST Certified
13 1 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.50%) FFIEC
13 1 (0.50%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (27.64%) NIST
2 39 (19.60%) NIST 800
3 14 (7.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (3.02%) GDPR
5 5 (2.51%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.01%) NCSC
6 4 (2.01%) SLA
7 2 (1.01%) GRC
7 2 (1.01%) PMO
8 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (4.52%) Kibana
1 9 (4.52%) logstash
2 3 (1.51%) Ansible
2 3 (1.51%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.51%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.51%) Terraform
3 1 (0.50%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 75 (37.69%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.02%) Splunk
3 5 (2.51%) Apple
3 5 (2.51%) Google
4 4 (2.01%) Qualys
5 3 (1.51%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.01%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.01%) Cybereason
6 2 (1.01%) Netskope
6 2 (1.01%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.01%) Rapid7
6 2 (1.01%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.01%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.50%) Intel
7 1 (0.50%) SAP
7 1 (0.50%) Symantec