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 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 331 505 710
Rank change year-on-year +174 +205 -160
Contract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 245 184 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.32% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.36% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 113 90
10th Percentile £483 £450 £400
25th Percentile £548 £540 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £556
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +12.36% +5.95%
75th Percentile £763 £733 £675
90th Percentile £850 £838 £776
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 £513
% change year-on-year -4.00% +21.95% -
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 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%

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 18 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 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 +172 223 £600 -4.00% 76
UK excluding London +140 176 £600 -4.00% 51
South West +87 93 £570 -8.80% 8
North of England +59 63 £850 +40.26% 19
North West +38 48 £850 +40.67% 7
London +65 40 £575 -11.54% 35
Work from Home +64 39 £638 -3.08% 30
Midlands +24 20 £596 -4.41% 5
South East +38 16 £540 -13.60% 12
West Midlands +31 16 £625 -3.85% 4
Yorkshire +24 15 £582 -16.86% 12
Scotland +36 7 £575 -22.03% 2
East Midlands +7 4 £567 -6.44% 1
East of England +3 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 3 (1.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 33 (13.47%) Azure
2 26 (10.61%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (3.27%) AWS
4 4 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.82%) Mimecast
5 2 (0.82%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.41%) GCP
6 1 (0.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (22.45%) Firewall
2 41 (16.73%) VPN
3 16 (6.53%) Network Security
4 9 (3.67%) Wireless
5 4 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.82%) Intranet
7 1 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.82%) Power BI
3 1 (0.41%) Big Data
3 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (1.22%) JIRA
2 1 (0.41%) Git
General
1 70 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.76%) Telecoms
5 18 (7.35%) Finance
6 13 (5.31%) Banking
7 9 (3.67%) Military
8 6 (2.45%) Legal
9 5 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.41%) Electronics
10 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Law
10 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 112 (45.71%) Analyst
2 50 (20.41%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 46 (18.78%) Lead
4 44 (17.96%) Architect
5 37 (15.10%) Technical Architect
6 32 (13.06%) SOC Analyst
7 31 (12.65%) Lead Architect
8 29 (11.84%) Technical Leader
9 23 (9.39%) Cyber Threat Analyst
10 22 (8.98%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
11 16 (6.53%) Cyber Defence Analyst
12 15 (6.12%) Security Analyst
13 13 (5.31%) Senior
14 9 (3.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 8 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
16 7 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
17 6 (2.45%) Security Advisor
17 6 (2.45%) Security Engineer
17 6 (2.45%) SOC Engineer
18 5 (2.04%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.73%) Node.js
2 12 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.63%) Ajax
3 4 (1.63%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.63%) CSS
3 4 (1.63%) HTML
3 4 (1.63%) JSON
3 4 (1.63%) XML
4 3 (1.22%) Kafka
4 3 (1.22%) SOAP
4 3 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 110 (44.90%) Cyber Threat
2 76 (31.02%) Management Information System
3 61 (24.90%) Cyber Defence
4 56 (22.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 40 (16.33%) Security Operations Centre
6 30 (12.24%) Public Cloud
7 28 (11.43%) Security Posture
8 16 (6.53%) CSOC
9 13 (5.31%) Product Ownership
10 11 (4.49%) Operational Technology
11 7 (2.86%) CMDB
12 6 (2.45%) Mobile App
13 5 (2.04%) Onboarding
14 2 (0.82%) Cloud Native
14 2 (0.82%) Cyberattack
14 2 (0.82%) Distributed Applications
15 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
15 1 (0.41%) Insider Threat
15 1 (0.41%) SCADA
15 1 (0.41%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 53 (21.63%) Windows
2 41 (16.73%) Android
2 41 (16.73%) Apple iOS
2 41 (16.73%) Windows Server
3 16 (6.53%) Linux
4 2 (0.82%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (82.04%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 161 (65.71%) Cybersecurity
3 109 (44.49%) SIEM
4 107 (43.67%) Security Operations
5 104 (42.45%) Incident Response
6 96 (39.18%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 80 (32.65%) Information Security
8 75 (30.61%) Risk Management
9 70 (28.57%) SOAR
10 60 (24.49%) Use Case
11 51 (20.82%) Incident Management
12 50 (20.41%) Security Architecture
13 49 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
14 48 (19.59%) Case Management
14 48 (19.59%) Cyber Intelligence
15 47 (19.18%) Protective Monitoring
16 46 (18.78%) CI/CD
16 46 (18.78%) Mentoring
17 41 (16.73%) Mobile Device Management
17 41 (16.73%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 19 (7.76%) Kusto Query Language
2 9 (3.67%) Python
3 7 (2.86%) Search Processing Language
4 5 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.22%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.82%) Bash
6 2 (0.82%) C
6 2 (0.82%) C++
6 2 (0.82%) Java
6 2 (0.82%) Perl
6 2 (0.82%) Ruby
6 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 153 (62.45%) Security Cleared
2 107 (43.67%) DV Cleared
3 52 (21.22%) SC Cleared
4 35 (14.29%) CISSP
5 19 (7.76%) Degree
6 16 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.90%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (4.08%) CEH
8 10 (4.08%) OSCP
9 8 (3.27%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.86%) CISM
10 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.45%) GREM
11 6 (2.45%) GSEC
12 5 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.22%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.41%) CCNA
15 1 (0.41%) GCIH
15 1 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (23.27%) NIST
2 40 (16.33%) NIST 800
3 22 (8.98%) GDPR
4 20 (8.16%) NCSC
5 19 (7.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.04%) GRC
6 5 (2.04%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.63%) SLA
8 2 (0.82%) PMO
9 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.41%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (0.41%) Firmware
1 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.67%) Kibana
1 9 (3.67%) logstash
2 3 (1.22%) Ansible
2 3 (1.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.22%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.22%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) CASB
3 1 (0.41%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 81 (33.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.27%) Splunk
3 7 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.45%) Google
5 5 (2.04%) Apple
5 5 (2.04%) Qualys
6 4 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.22%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.22%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.82%) Cybereason
8 2 (0.82%) Intel
8 2 (0.82%) Netskope
8 2 (0.82%) Rapid7
8 2 (0.82%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.82%) SAP
8 2 (0.82%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle
9 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.41%) Symantec
9 1 (0.41%) VMware