Threat Detection Contracts

Threat Detection
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 599 781
Rank change year-on-year +123 +182 -121
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 106 119 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.20% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.22% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 77 51
10th Percentile £496 £488 £463
25th Percentile £575 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £566 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -12.99% +31.18%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £750 £763 £818
UK excluding London median daily rate £615 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +11.82% +4.76% -9.29%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.49

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,597 53,655 80,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,227 37,238 56,437
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
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% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,746 1,926
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.98 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.34 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.72% +80.00% -8.00%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the UK

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in the UK

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in the UK

Threat Detection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Detection in the UK

Threat Detection
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +78 72 £600 +6.01% 39
London +83 36 £590 -12.59% 19
Work from Home +117 30 £600 -7.69% 32
UK excluding London +43 30 £615 +11.82% 20
Midlands +46 15 £635 +27.00% 1
West Midlands +40 15 £635 +27.00%
South West +19 11 £600 +6.19% 1
North West +7 3 £700 +23.77% 5
North of England +4 3 £700 +27.27% 6
South East +12 1 £500 -9.09% 6

Threat Detection
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 33 (31.13%) Azure
2 25 (23.58%) Azure Sentinel
3 17 (16.04%) Entra ID
4 8 (7.55%) AWS
5 6 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (3.77%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.89%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (28.30%) Firewall
2 18 (16.98%) Network Security
3 3 (2.83%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (2.83%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.94%) DHCP
4 1 (0.94%) DNS
4 1 (0.94%) DSL
4 1 (0.94%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.32%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Burp Suite
2 3 (2.83%) Metasploit
General
1 38 (35.85%) Analytical Skills
1 38 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.81%) Public Sector
3 16 (15.09%) Finance
4 13 (12.26%) Banking
5 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.94%) Automotive
6 1 (0.94%) Electronics
6 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (27.36%) Analyst
2 22 (20.75%) SOC Analyst
3 18 (16.98%) Security Engineer
4 16 (15.09%) SOC Engineer
5 5 (4.72%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 5 (4.72%) Senior
6 4 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (3.77%) Cyber Threat Engineer
6 4 (3.77%) Security Analyst
7 3 (2.83%) Consultant
7 3 (2.83%) Cyber Threat Specialist
7 3 (2.83%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 3 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (2.83%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (2.83%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 2 (1.89%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (1.89%) Data Engineer
8 2 (1.89%) Lead
8 2 (1.89%) Security Architect
8 2 (1.89%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.04%) OAuth
1 17 (16.04%) OpenID
1 17 (16.04%) SAML
2 11 (10.38%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.94%) JSON
3 1 (0.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 34 (32.08%) Security Posture
2 26 (24.53%) Cyber Threat
3 24 (22.64%) Management Information System
4 22 (20.75%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (10.38%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (8.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 6 (5.66%) Onboarding
7 6 (5.66%) Public Cloud
8 4 (3.77%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.89%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.94%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.94%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.43%) Windows
2 8 (7.55%) Linux
3 3 (2.83%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (56.60%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (51.89%) SIEM
3 49 (46.23%) Security Operations
4 47 (44.34%) Incident Response
5 44 (41.51%) Threat Intelligence
6 39 (36.79%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 39 (36.79%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (28.30%) Identity Access Management
8 24 (22.64%) Computer Science
9 21 (19.81%) Information Security
10 18 (16.98%) Analytics
10 18 (16.98%) DevOps
11 17 (16.04%) Cloud Security
11 17 (16.04%) Infrastructure Automation
11 17 (16.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (15.09%) Penetration Testing
13 15 (14.15%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 13 (12.26%) Incident Management
14 13 (12.26%) Root Cause Analysis
14 13 (12.26%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.81%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (5.66%) Search Processing Language
3 5 (4.72%) Python
4 3 (2.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 47 (44.34%) Security Cleared
2 45 (42.45%) SC Cleared
3 29 (27.36%) CISSP
4 27 (25.47%) Degree
5 24 (22.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (16.04%) CompTIA Security+
7 12 (11.32%) Azure Certification
7 12 (11.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (10.38%) CEH
9 10 (9.43%) DV Cleared
10 5 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (3.77%) CISM
12 2 (1.89%) GIAC
13 1 (0.94%) CREST Certified
13 1 (0.94%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.94%) OSCP
13 1 (0.94%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.15%) NIST
2 11 (10.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (6.60%) GDPR
4 5 (4.72%) NCSC
5 4 (3.77%) SLA
6 2 (1.89%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (10.38%) Kibana
2 10 (9.43%) logstash
3 6 (5.66%) QRadar
4 4 (3.77%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (2.83%) Nessus
6 1 (0.94%) Ansible
6 1 (0.94%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.94%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.94%) SCCM
6 1 (0.94%) Terraform
6 1 (0.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (58.49%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.09%) Splunk
3 6 (5.66%) Rapid7
4 5 (4.72%) Sophos
5 4 (3.77%) Qualys
6 3 (2.83%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (2.83%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.83%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.89%) Netskope
8 1 (0.94%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.94%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.94%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.94%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.94%) F5
8 1 (0.94%) IBM
8 1 (0.94%) McAfee
8 1 (0.94%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.94%) SAP
8 1 (0.94%) Varonis
8 1 (0.94%) Veracode