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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 567 759
Rank change year-on-year +196 +192 -180
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence 201 120 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.21% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 67 53
10th Percentile £511 £450 £405
25th Percentile £550 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £825 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £792 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 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 18 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 +191 181 £600 -4.00% 65
UK excluding London +150 146 £600 -4.00% 44
South West +73 73 £570 -8.80% 8
North of England +81 56 £850 +21.43% 16
North West +61 42 £850 +58.14% 5
Work from Home +88 32 £600 -7.69% 24
London +77 29 £550 -4.35% 29
Midlands +29 19 £625 -1.96% 4
South East +38 16 £540 -13.60% 9
West Midlands +32 16 £625 -3.85% 3
Yorkshire +23 14 £582 -16.86% 11
Scotland +39 7 £575 -22.03% 2
East Midlands +11 3 - - 1

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 3 (1.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.49%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.94%) Azure
2 22 (10.95%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (2.99%) AWS
4 3 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.00%) Mimecast
5 2 (1.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 55 (27.36%) Firewall
2 41 (20.40%) VPN
3 16 (7.96%) Network Security
4 9 (4.48%) Wireless
5 2 (1.00%) Intranet
5 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.98%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.00%) Power BI
3 1 (0.50%) Big Data
3 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (1.49%) JIRA
2 1 (0.50%) Git
General
1 69 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (10.95%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.46%) Finance
5 16 (7.96%) Telecoms
6 13 (6.47%) Banking
7 8 (3.98%) Military
8 6 (2.99%) 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 (43.28%) Analyst
2 44 (21.89%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 43 (21.39%) Lead
4 42 (20.90%) Architect
5 37 (18.41%) Technical Architect
6 29 (14.43%) Lead Architect
6 29 (14.43%) Technical Leader
7 23 (11.44%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 22 (10.95%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 16 (7.96%) Cyber Defence Analyst
10 14 (6.97%) Security Analyst
11 13 (6.47%) SOC Analyst
12 8 (3.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 8 (3.98%) Senior
13 7 (3.48%) Cloud Architect
14 6 (2.99%) Security Advisor
15 5 (2.49%) Consultant
15 5 (2.49%) Digital Architect
15 5 (2.49%) Digital Technical Architect
15 5 (2.49%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.40%) Node.js
2 12 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.49%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 110 (54.73%) Cyber Threat
2 61 (30.35%) Cyber Defence
3 59 (29.35%) Management Information System
4 56 (27.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 28 (13.93%) Public Cloud
6 24 (11.94%) Security Posture
7 23 (11.44%) Security Operations Centre
8 13 (6.47%) Product Ownership
9 10 (4.98%) Operational Technology
10 5 (2.49%) Mobile App
10 5 (2.49%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.00%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.00%) Cyberattack
11 2 (1.00%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.50%) CSOC
12 1 (0.50%) Insider Threat
12 1 (0.50%) SCADA
12 1 (0.50%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 52 (25.87%) Windows
2 41 (20.40%) Android
2 41 (20.40%) Apple iOS
2 41 (20.40%) Windows Server
3 13 (6.47%) Linux
4 2 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 143 (71.14%) Cybersecurity
3 95 (47.26%) SIEM
4 81 (40.30%) Security Operations
5 78 (38.81%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 76 (37.81%) Incident Response
7 70 (34.83%) Risk Management
8 67 (33.33%) SOAR
9 59 (29.35%) Information Security
10 50 (24.88%) Incident Management
11 49 (24.38%) Root Cause Analysis
11 49 (24.38%) Security Architecture
12 48 (23.88%) Case Management
12 48 (23.88%) Cyber Intelligence
13 47 (23.38%) Protective Monitoring
13 47 (23.38%) Use Case
14 46 (22.89%) CI/CD
14 46 (22.89%) Mentoring
15 41 (20.40%) Mobile Device Management
15 41 (20.40%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.46%) Kusto Query Language
2 7 (3.48%) Search Processing Language
3 5 (2.49%) Python
4 2 (1.00%) C
4 2 (1.00%) C++
4 2 (1.00%) Java
4 2 (1.00%) Perl
4 2 (1.00%) Ruby
4 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 133 (66.17%) Security Cleared
2 88 (43.78%) DV Cleared
3 49 (24.38%) SC Cleared
4 29 (14.43%) CISSP
5 16 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (7.96%) Degree
6 10 (4.98%) CEH
7 9 (4.48%) OSCP
8 8 (3.98%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.98%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.99%) GREM
10 6 (2.99%) GSEC
11 5 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.49%) CISM
13 2 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (1.00%) CREST Certified
14 1 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.50%) CompTIA CySA+
14 1 (0.50%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (27.86%) NIST
2 39 (19.40%) NIST 800
3 15 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.99%) GDPR
5 5 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.49%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.99%) SLA
7 3 (1.49%) NCSC
8 2 (1.00%) GRC
8 2 (1.00%) PMO
9 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (4.48%) Kibana
1 9 (4.48%) logstash
2 3 (1.49%) Ansible
2 3 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.49%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.49%) Terraform
3 1 (0.50%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 73 (36.32%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.48%) Splunk
3 6 (2.99%) Google
4 5 (2.49%) Apple
5 4 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (1.99%) Qualys
6 3 (1.49%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.00%) Cybereason
7 2 (1.00%) Netskope
7 2 (1.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.00%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.00%) SAP
7 2 (1.00%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.50%) Intel
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle
8 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.50%) Symantec
8 1 (0.50%) VMware