Threat Intelligence Contracts

Threat Intelligence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Threat Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited 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 353 531 728
Rank change year-on-year +178 +197 -197
Contract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 242 190 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.32% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.36% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 111 82
10th Percentile £481 £450 £401
25th Percentile £550 £539 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -
75th Percentile £744 £716 £669
90th Percentile £850 £838 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £622 £506
% change year-on-year -3.54% +22.86% -1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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%

Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Threat Intelligence in the UK

Threat Intelligence
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 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 +166 220 £600 -4.00% 81
UK excluding London +147 176 £600 -3.54% 49
South West +100 92 £570 -8.80% 11
North of England +51 63 £850 +40.26% 16
North West +36 48 £850 +40.67% 8
Work from Home +84 40 £645 -2.12% 40
London +63 38 £575 -11.54% 35
Midlands +32 22 £615 -1.36% 6
West Midlands +35 18 £615 -5.38% 3
Yorkshire +30 15 £582 -16.86% 8
South East +28 15 £520 -16.80% 8
Scotland +32 7 £575 -22.03% 3
East Midlands +16 4 £567 -6.44% 3
East of England +9 2 £550 -38.89% 3

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 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 37 (15.29%) Azure
2 30 (12.40%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (2.89%) AWS
4 4 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.83%) Mimecast
5 2 (0.83%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.41%) GCP
6 1 (0.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (24.38%) Firewall
2 41 (16.94%) VPN
3 20 (8.26%) Network Security
4 9 (3.72%) Wireless
5 4 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.83%) Intranet
7 1 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.83%) Power BI
3 1 (0.41%) Big Data
3 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (0.83%) JIRA
2 1 (0.41%) Git
General
1 70 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.02%) Finance
4 17 (7.02%) Telecoms
5 12 (4.96%) Banking
6 9 (3.72%) Military
7 6 (2.48%) Legal
8 5 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.41%) Electronics
9 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.41%) Law
9 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 112 (46.28%) Analyst
2 50 (20.66%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 46 (19.01%) Lead
4 44 (18.18%) Architect
5 37 (15.29%) Technical Architect
6 32 (13.22%) SOC Analyst
7 31 (12.81%) Lead Architect
8 29 (11.98%) Technical Leader
9 23 (9.50%) Cyber Threat Analyst
10 22 (9.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
11 16 (6.61%) Cyber Defence Analyst
12 15 (6.20%) Security Analyst
13 12 (4.96%) Senior
14 10 (4.13%) SOC Engineer
15 9 (3.72%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 8 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
17 7 (2.89%) Cloud Architect
18 6 (2.48%) Security Advisor
19 5 (2.07%) Digital Architect
19 5 (2.07%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.94%) Node.js
2 12 (4.96%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.24%) Ajax
3 3 (1.24%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.24%) CSS
3 3 (1.24%) HTML
3 3 (1.24%) JSON
3 3 (1.24%) Kafka
3 3 (1.24%) XML
4 2 (0.83%) SOAP
4 2 (0.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 106 (43.80%) Cyber Threat
2 80 (33.06%) Management Information System
3 61 (25.21%) Cyber Defence
4 56 (23.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 44 (18.18%) Security Operations Centre
6 30 (12.40%) Public Cloud
6 30 (12.40%) Security Posture
7 16 (6.61%) CSOC
8 13 (5.37%) Product Ownership
9 11 (4.55%) Operational Technology
10 7 (2.89%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.48%) CMDB
11 6 (2.48%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.83%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.83%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.83%) Distributed Applications
13 1 (0.41%) Cloud Security Posture
13 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.41%) Insider Threat
13 1 (0.41%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 53 (21.90%) Windows
2 41 (16.94%) Android
2 41 (16.94%) Apple iOS
2 41 (16.94%) Windows Server
3 16 (6.61%) Linux
4 2 (0.83%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (82.23%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 160 (66.12%) Cybersecurity
3 112 (46.28%) SIEM
4 107 (44.21%) Security Operations
5 104 (42.98%) Incident Response
6 95 (39.26%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 77 (31.82%) Information Security
8 71 (29.34%) Risk Management
9 69 (28.51%) SOAR
10 58 (23.97%) Use Case
11 51 (21.07%) Incident Management
12 50 (20.66%) Security Architecture
13 49 (20.25%) Root Cause Analysis
14 48 (19.83%) Case Management
15 47 (19.42%) Protective Monitoring
16 46 (19.01%) Cyber Intelligence
17 44 (18.18%) CI/CD
17 44 (18.18%) Mentoring
18 42 (17.36%) Threat Detection
19 41 (16.94%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.68%) Kusto Query Language
2 9 (3.72%) Python
3 6 (2.48%) Search Processing Language
4 4 (1.65%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.24%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.83%) Bash
6 2 (0.83%) C
6 2 (0.83%) C++
6 2 (0.83%) Java
6 2 (0.83%) Perl
6 2 (0.83%) Ruby
6 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 154 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 107 (44.21%) DV Cleared
3 53 (21.90%) SC Cleared
4 38 (15.70%) CISSP
5 23 (9.50%) Degree
6 20 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (6.61%) CompTIA Security+
8 12 (4.96%) Azure Certification
9 11 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (4.13%) CEH
10 10 (4.13%) OSCP
11 7 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (2.48%) CISM
12 6 (2.48%) GREM
12 6 (2.48%) GSEC
13 3 (1.24%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.41%) CCNA
15 1 (0.41%) GIAC
15 1 (0.41%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.14%) NIST
2 40 (16.53%) NIST 800
3 22 (9.09%) GDPR
4 21 (8.68%) NCSC
5 18 (7.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.07%) GRC
7 5 (2.07%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.65%) SLA
9 2 (0.83%) PMO
10 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.41%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (0.41%) Firmware
1 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.72%) Kibana
1 9 (3.72%) logstash
2 3 (1.24%) Ansible
2 3 (1.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.24%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.24%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) CASB
3 1 (0.41%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 82 (33.88%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.89%) Splunk
3 6 (2.48%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.07%) Apple
4 5 (2.07%) Google
4 5 (2.07%) Qualys
5 3 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (1.24%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.83%) Cybereason
6 2 (0.83%) Intel
6 2 (0.83%) Netskope
6 2 (0.83%) Rapid7
6 2 (0.83%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.83%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.41%) SAP
7 1 (0.41%) Symantec