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 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 400 569 754
Rank change year-on-year +169 +185 -84
Contract jobs citing MITRE ATT&CK 171 118 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.21% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 86 58
10th Percentile £485 £463 £450
25th Percentile £550 £495 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £586 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +4.18% -13.46%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £694
90th Percentile £850 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £587 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% +11.76% -22.22%

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 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%

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 18 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 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 +165 161 £582 -0.94% 25
UK excluding London +123 127 £575 -2.00% 12
South West +75 79 £570 -8.80% 1
Work from Home +94 24 £550 -12.00% 6
London +82 24 £675 +8.00% 12
West Midlands +35 21 £544 -16.31% 2
Midlands +34 21 £544 -16.31% 2
North of England +22 21 £582 +8.28% 1
South East +41 20 £583 +19.49% 6
Yorkshire +15 16 £800 +52.38%
North West +10 5 £450 -23.14% 1
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 5 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.28%) Azure
2 14 (8.19%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (2.34%) AWS
3 4 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (1.17%) GCP
5 1 (0.58%) IaaS
5 1 (0.58%) Mimecast
5 1 (0.58%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.04%) Firewall
2 10 (5.85%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (2.92%) Network Security
4 4 (2.34%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.34%) tcpdump
4 4 (2.34%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.75%) Wireless
6 1 (0.58%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.85%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.34%) Apache Hive
2 4 (2.34%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.92%) JIRA
2 4 (2.34%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 81 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (14.62%) Public Sector
3 23 (13.45%) Finance
4 10 (5.85%) Legal
5 9 (5.26%) Banking
6 5 (2.92%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.58%) Electronics
8 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.58%) Marketing
8 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (54.39%) Analyst
2 36 (21.05%) SOC Analyst
3 28 (16.37%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 21 (12.28%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 20 (11.70%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 18 (10.53%) Consultant
7 15 (8.77%) Cyber Defence Analyst
8 14 (8.19%) Lead
8 14 (8.19%) Security Analyst
9 11 (6.43%) SIEM Consultant
10 10 (5.85%) Architect
10 10 (5.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 10 (5.85%) Security Architect
11 5 (2.92%) Security Engineer
12 4 (2.34%) Chief Information Security Officer
12 4 (2.34%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 4 (2.34%) Risk Consultant
12 4 (2.34%) Senior
13 3 (1.75%) Junior
14 2 (1.17%) Junior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.85%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.34%) OLE
3 2 (1.17%) OAuth
3 2 (1.17%) OpenID
3 2 (1.17%) Regular Expression
3 2 (1.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 94 (54.97%) Cyber Threat
2 81 (47.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 60 (35.09%) Cyber Defence
4 48 (28.07%) Management Information System
5 29 (16.96%) Security Operations Centre
6 18 (10.53%) CSOC
7 9 (5.26%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.92%) Cyberattack
9 4 (2.34%) YARA
10 3 (1.75%) Insider Threat
10 3 (1.75%) IoT
10 3 (1.75%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.75%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.17%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.17%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.17%) SCADA
11 2 (1.17%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.96%) Linux
2 16 (9.36%) Windows
3 10 (5.85%) Mac OS X
4 4 (2.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (85.38%) Cybersecurity
2 118 (69.01%) SIEM
3 96 (56.14%) Threat Intelligence
4 86 (50.29%) Incident Response
5 78 (45.61%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 74 (43.27%) Incident Management
7 68 (39.77%) Information Security
7 68 (39.77%) Security Operations
8 60 (35.09%) SOAR
9 57 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring
10 52 (30.41%) Use Case
11 41 (23.98%) Case Management
11 41 (23.98%) Root Cause Analysis
12 39 (22.81%) Mentoring
13 29 (16.96%) Risk Management
14 27 (15.79%) CRM
14 27 (15.79%) Malware Analysis
14 27 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
15 26 (15.20%) Open Source
15 26 (15.20%) OSINT
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.85%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (3.51%) Search Processing Language
3 4 (2.34%) C#
3 4 (2.34%) Python
4 3 (1.75%) Go
5 1 (0.58%) Bash
5 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 119 (69.59%) Security Cleared
2 99 (57.89%) DV Cleared
3 26 (15.20%) CISSP
4 25 (14.62%) SC Cleared
5 17 (9.94%) Degree
6 14 (8.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (5.85%) CISM
7 10 (5.85%) OSCP
8 9 (5.26%) CEH
9 8 (4.68%) GSEC
10 6 (3.51%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (3.51%) GIAC
10 6 (3.51%) GREM
10 6 (3.51%) Master's Degree
11 4 (2.34%) CREST Certified
12 3 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.75%) CHECK Team Leader
13 2 (1.17%) BC Cleared
13 2 (1.17%) CASP
13 2 (1.17%) GCED
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (43.86%) NIST
2 48 (28.07%) NIST 800
3 37 (21.64%) GDPR
4 22 (12.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (9.94%) NCSC
6 13 (7.60%) HIPAA
7 10 (5.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.75%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.17%) ISA99
9 2 (1.17%) SLA
10 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.34%) Snort
Systems Management
1 14 (8.19%) Kibana
2 10 (5.85%) logstash
3 1 (0.58%) QRadar
Vendors
1 83 (48.54%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.02%) Splunk
3 5 (2.92%) Google
4 4 (2.34%) LogRhythm
5 2 (1.17%) Citrix
5 2 (1.17%) Cybereason
5 2 (1.17%) Darktrace
5 2 (1.17%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.17%) TippingPoint
5 2 (1.17%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.58%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.58%) Cisco
6 1 (0.58%) FireEye
6 1 (0.58%) IBM
6 1 (0.58%) Intel
6 1 (0.58%) Qualys
6 1 (0.58%) SAP