Threat Detection Contracts in the West Midlands

Threat Detection
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 106 128 175
Rank change year-on-year +22 +47 -49
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 10 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.51% 0.13% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.15% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile - £395 -
25th Percentile £635 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% - -
75th Percentile £645 £531 £519
90th Percentile - £535 £530
England median daily rate £600 £600 £606
% change year-on-year - -1.03% +25.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,612 1,976 3,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.88% 87.86% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 1,343 2,346
10th Percentile £263 £263 £280
25th Percentile £373 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £586
90th Percentile £746 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 49 61
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.22 £13.70 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +23.35% +9.68%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £24.50
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 the West Midlands

Job postings citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the West Midlands

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in the West Midlands

Threat Detection
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham - 6 - - 1
Threat Detection
England

Threat Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Analyst
1 8 (80.00%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cyber Defence
1 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) SIEM
2 4 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Case Management
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (20.00%) Protective Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) CISSP
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (20.00%) CEH
3 2 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kibana
1 2 (20.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft