Cybersecurity Specialist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cybersecurity Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Cybersecurity Specialist daily rate in Work from Home is £528 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 466 612
Rank change year-on-year +126 +146 -140
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Specialist 4 5 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.019% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.020% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £514 £445 £447
25th Percentile £517 £513 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +9.18% -25.37%
75th Percentile £536 £619 £569
90th Percentile £537 £803 £711
UK median daily rate £528 £591 £513
% change year-on-year -10.69% +15.24% -18.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Cybersecurity Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cybersecurity Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cybersecurity Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Specialist
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 Cybersecurity Specialist.

Cybersecurity Specialist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Cybersecurity Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Cybersecurity Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Assessment
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) MCSE
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (25.00%) NIST
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (25.00%) Email Filtering
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre

Cybersecurity Specialist Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Assessment
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Email Filtering
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SIEM
4 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (50.00%) MCSE
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (25.00%) CISM
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (25.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM