MITRE ATT&CK Contracts

MITRE ATT&CK
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MITRE ATT&CK skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MITRE ATT&CK 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 419 598 766
Rank change year-on-year +179 +168 -117
Contract jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK 174 121 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.20% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 84 54
10th Percentile £463 £469 £450
25th Percentile £538 £495 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £587 £588
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% -0.13% -9.62%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £705
90th Percentile £850 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £573 £587 £500
% change year-on-year -2.43% +17.35% -25.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

MITRE ATT&CK 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%

MITRE ATT&CK
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MITRE ATT&CK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK

MITRE ATT&CK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK.

Daily rate trend for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK

MITRE ATT&CK
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MITRE ATT&CK in the UK

MITRE ATT&CK
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK 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 +163 164 £582 -3.00% 24
UK excluding London +130 129 £573 -2.43% 14
South West +87 76 £570 -8.80% 3
Work from Home +117 27 £550 -12.00% 8
London +86 25 £675 +5.88% 11
South East +34 25 £583 +19.49% 1
Midlands +41 22 £538 -17.23% 1
West Midlands +38 22 £538 -17.23% 1
North of England +14 20 £582 +8.28% 4
Yorkshire +21 16 £800 +52.38% 2
North West +7 4 £450 -23.14% 2
East of England - 3 £750 - 1

MITRE ATT&CK
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 4 (2.30%) Confluence
1 4 (2.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.07%) Azure
2 14 (8.05%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (3.45%) IaaS
3 6 (3.45%) SaaS
4 5 (2.87%) PaaS
5 4 (2.30%) AWS
5 4 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.15%) GCP
7 1 (0.57%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.37%) Firewall
2 10 (5.75%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (2.87%) 5G
3 5 (2.87%) Broadband
3 5 (2.87%) Wireless
4 4 (2.30%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.30%) tcpdump
4 4 (2.30%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.72%) Network Security
6 1 (0.57%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.30%) Apache Hive
2 4 (2.30%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.30%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (2.30%) JIRA
General
1 79 (45.40%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.09%) Public Sector
3 24 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (12.07%) Finance
5 11 (6.32%) Legal
6 8 (4.60%) Banking
7 5 (2.87%) Law
7 5 (2.87%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.57%) Electronics
9 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.57%) Marketing
9 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (54.02%) Analyst
2 37 (21.26%) SOC Analyst
3 28 (16.09%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 21 (12.07%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 20 (11.49%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 18 (10.34%) Consultant
7 15 (8.62%) Cyber Defence Analyst
8 14 (8.05%) Lead
8 14 (8.05%) Security Analyst
9 11 (6.32%) SIEM Consultant
10 10 (5.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 9 (5.17%) Architect
11 9 (5.17%) Security Architect
12 7 (4.02%) Penetration Tester
12 7 (4.02%) Security Specialist
12 7 (4.02%) Tester
13 5 (2.87%) Security Penetration Tester
13 5 (2.87%) Security Tester
13 5 (2.87%) Testing Specialist
14 4 (2.30%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.75%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (2.87%) Web Services
3 4 (2.30%) OLE
4 2 (1.15%) OAuth
4 2 (1.15%) OpenID
4 2 (1.15%) Regular Expression
4 2 (1.15%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (52.30%) Cyber Threat
2 80 (45.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 60 (34.48%) Cyber Defence
4 48 (27.59%) Management Information System
5 29 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
6 18 (10.34%) CSOC
7 10 (5.75%) Mobile App
8 7 (4.02%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.30%) Cyberattack
9 4 (2.30%) IoT
9 4 (2.30%) YARA
10 3 (1.72%) Insider Threat
10 3 (1.72%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.15%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.15%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.39%) Linux
2 18 (10.34%) Windows
3 11 (6.32%) Mac OS X
4 4 (2.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (86.78%) Cybersecurity
2 118 (67.82%) SIEM
3 95 (54.60%) Threat Intelligence
4 85 (48.85%) Incident Response
5 77 (44.25%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 75 (43.10%) Incident Management
7 68 (39.08%) Security Operations
8 67 (38.51%) Information Security
9 60 (34.48%) SOAR
10 57 (32.76%) Protective Monitoring
11 50 (28.74%) Use Case
12 41 (23.56%) Case Management
12 41 (23.56%) Root Cause Analysis
13 39 (22.41%) Mentoring
14 28 (16.09%) Risk Management
15 27 (15.52%) CRM
15 27 (15.52%) Malware Analysis
15 27 (15.52%) Vulnerability Management
16 26 (14.94%) Open Source
16 26 (14.94%) OSINT
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.60%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (3.45%) C#
2 6 (3.45%) Python
3 5 (2.87%) Go
4 4 (2.30%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (0.57%) Bash
5 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 125 (71.84%) Security Cleared
2 99 (56.90%) DV Cleared
3 26 (14.94%) SC Cleared
4 25 (14.37%) CISSP
5 17 (9.77%) OSCP
6 15 (8.62%) Degree
7 13 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (7.47%) GIAC
8 11 (6.32%) CREST Certified
9 9 (5.17%) CEH
9 9 (5.17%) CISM
10 8 (4.60%) GSEC
11 6 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (3.45%) GPEN
11 6 (3.45%) GREM
12 5 (2.87%) CHECK Team Leader
12 5 (2.87%) Master's Degree
12 5 (2.87%) SANS
13 3 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (1.15%) GCED
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (43.10%) NIST
2 46 (26.44%) NIST 800
3 42 (24.14%) GDPR
4 23 (13.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (12.64%) NCSC
6 14 (8.05%) HIPAA
7 11 (6.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 8 (4.60%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.15%) SLA
10 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.57%) ISA99
10 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.30%) Snort
Systems Management
1 14 (8.05%) Kibana
2 10 (5.75%) logstash
3 1 (0.57%) QRadar
Vendors
1 79 (45.40%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.75%) Splunk
3 5 (2.87%) Google
3 5 (2.87%) Virgin Media
4 3 (1.72%) LogRhythm
5 2 (1.15%) Citrix
5 2 (1.15%) Cybereason
5 2 (1.15%) Darktrace
5 2 (1.15%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.15%) TippingPoint
5 2 (1.15%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.57%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.57%) Cisco
6 1 (0.57%) FireEye
6 1 (0.57%) IBM
6 1 (0.57%) Intel
6 1 (0.57%) Qualys
6 1 (0.57%) SAP