Threat Detection Contracts in London

Threat Detection
England > London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 450 571
Rank change year-on-year +97 +121 -103
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 40 43 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.17% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.18% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 30 16
10th Percentile £426 £488 £414
25th Percentile £525 £625 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £663 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.94% +8.16% +36.11%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £788
90th Percentile £685 £804 £923
England median daily rate £600 £600 £606
% change year-on-year - -1.03% +25.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,473 23,264 35,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 90.93% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,093 16,856 26,215
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 265 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +9.86% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in London

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in London

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in London

Threat Detection
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Central London +36 4 £613 -2.97% 1
Threat Detection
England

Threat Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (22.50%) Azure
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Firewall
2 3 (7.50%) Network Security
3 2 (5.00%) DHCP
3 2 (5.00%) DNS
3 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Burp Suite
2 3 (7.50%) Metasploit
General
1 15 (37.50%) Finance
2 11 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Banking
4 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Security Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior
5 3 (7.50%) Cyber Threat Specialist
5 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Vulnerability Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.00%) SOC Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Incident Handler
7 1 (2.50%) Incident Responder
7 1 (2.50%) SOC Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
1 1 (2.50%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Security Posture
2 10 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (15.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Kali Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) Cybersecurity
1 21 (52.50%) SIEM
2 18 (45.00%) Security Operations
3 15 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
4 12 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 12 (30.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 11 (27.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (22.50%) Information Security
8 8 (20.00%) Use Case
9 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (17.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 6 (15.00%) Security Architecture
10 6 (15.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 5 (12.50%) Blue Team
11 5 (12.50%) Red Team
11 5 (12.50%) Threat Analysis
12 4 (10.00%) Log Aggregation
12 4 (10.00%) SOAR
12 4 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.00%) Python
3 2 (5.00%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (2.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) CISSP
1 7 (17.50%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) CISM
3 4 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) CEH
4 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.00%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) GIAC
4 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) GDPR
2 5 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (12.50%) NIST
3 3 (7.50%) HIPAA
3 3 (7.50%) PCI DSS
4 2 (5.00%) SLA
5 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) QRadar
2 3 (7.50%) Nessus
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.00%) SCCM
3 2 (5.00%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) WSUS
4 1 (2.50%) Ansible
4 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Splunk
3 4 (10.00%) Qualys
4 3 (7.50%) Checkmarx
4 3 (7.50%) Rapid7
4 3 (7.50%) Veracode
5 2 (5.00%) Sophos
6 1 (2.50%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.50%) McAfee
6 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.50%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.50%) Thales
6 1 (2.50%) Varonis