Cyber Defence Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cyber Defence
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 436 574
Rank change year-on-year +92 +138 -103
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 5 28 36
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.034% 0.11% 0.081%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.36% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 27
10th Percentile - £535 £588
25th Percentile £525 £758 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £783 £725
Median % change year-on-year -29.77% +8.02% +18.37%
75th Percentile £594 £800 £763
90th Percentile £605 £870 -
UK median daily rate £648 £713 £725
% change year-on-year -9.18% -1.66% +34.88%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Cyber Defence is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,279 7,879 13,949
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.74% 31.54% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,926 5,555 9,981
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £433 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £819 £793 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 150 226
10th Percentile £16.03 £19.00 £13.19
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.75 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +17.98% +28.99%
75th Percentile £68.13 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +3.97%

Cyber Defence
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cyber Defence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cyber Defence trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Defence
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cyber Defence.

Cyber Defence daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacker
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (60.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Information Security
3 3 (60.00%) Case Management
3 3 (60.00%) CRM
3 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (60.00%) Protective Monitoring
3 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) SIEM
3 3 (60.00%) SOAR
3 3 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) OSCP
4 1 (20.00%) CISSP
4 1 (20.00%) GIAC
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
2 3 (60.00%) NIST 800
3 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft