Cybersecurity Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cybersecurity
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 54 84
Rank change year-on-year 0 +30 +9
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 530 1,015 1,362
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.52% 4.05% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 4.51% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 763 1,010
10th Percentile £400 £425 £388
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £769 £813 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 10
10th Percentile £26.75 £20.00 £26.25
25th Percentile £40.00 £25.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £87.46 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +149.89% -30.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £87.53 £66.75 £60.93
90th Percentile £87.64 £71.25 £63.40
UK median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £42.23
% change year-on-year +27.89% +55.12% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Cybersecurity 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Cybersecurity
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cybersecurity trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity
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.

Cybersecurity daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Cybersecurity daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Cybersecurity hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (1.70%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.32%) Confluence
3 6 (1.13%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.94%) IIS
5 3 (0.57%) Apache
5 3 (0.57%) IBM HTTP Server
5 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.57%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.57%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (0.57%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.19%) CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.70%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.38%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.38%) Trello
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 118 (22.26%) Azure
2 66 (12.45%) AWS
3 33 (6.23%) SaaS
4 32 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (4.53%) IaaS
6 22 (4.15%) Azure Sentinel
6 22 (4.15%) Entra ID
7 18 (3.40%) PaaS
8 16 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (2.83%) GCP
10 14 (2.64%) GitHub
11 13 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (2.45%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.13%) AWS CloudTrail
13 5 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (0.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 5 (0.94%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (0.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 61 (11.51%) Firewall
2 39 (7.36%) Network Security
3 25 (4.72%) Intrusion Detection
4 18 (3.40%) Intranet
5 16 (3.02%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.83%) WAN
7 10 (1.89%) DNS
7 10 (1.89%) LAN
7 10 (1.89%) VPN
8 8 (1.51%) DHCP
9 5 (0.94%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.75%) HTTP
10 4 (0.75%) Internet
10 4 (0.75%) SAN
10 4 (0.75%) tcpdump
10 4 (0.75%) VLAN
10 4 (0.75%) Wireless
11 3 (0.57%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (1.13%) Power BI
2 4 (0.75%) Apache Hive
2 4 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (0.75%) Hadoop
2 4 (0.75%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.75%) Tableau
3 3 (0.57%) DB2
4 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.19%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.19%) Big Data
5 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (5.09%) JIRA
2 10 (1.89%) SonarQube
3 7 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.94%) Git
5 4 (0.75%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.75%) IDA Disassembler
5 4 (0.75%) Subversion
6 3 (0.57%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (0.57%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.38%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.19%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.19%) JMeter
8 1 (0.19%) RStudio
8 1 (0.19%) Xcode
General
1 134 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 81 (15.28%) Finance
3 75 (14.15%) Public Sector
4 66 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (6.23%) Banking
6 23 (4.34%) Legal
7 18 (3.40%) Police
8 14 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.08%) Local Government
11 9 (1.70%) Automotive
11 9 (1.70%) Law
12 7 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.94%) Marketing
14 5 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.75%) Electronics
15 4 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 98 (18.49%) Architect
2 72 (13.58%) Analyst
3 65 (12.26%) Security Architect
4 63 (11.89%) Consultant
5 55 (10.38%) Senior
6 53 (10.00%) Security Engineer
7 41 (7.74%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 41 (7.74%) Security Analyst
7 41 (7.74%) Security Manager
8 38 (7.17%) Project Manager
9 36 (6.79%) Lead
10 35 (6.60%) Security Consultant
11 29 (5.47%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 24 (4.53%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 24 (4.53%) Security Project Manager
13 21 (3.96%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 19 (3.58%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 18 (3.40%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
15 18 (3.40%) Technical Writer
16 16 (3.02%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.40%) CSS
2 17 (3.21%) HTML
3 11 (2.08%) ARM Templates
4 10 (1.89%) Azure Blueprints
5 9 (1.70%) .NET
5 9 (1.70%) LDAP
6 7 (1.32%) Middleware
6 7 (1.32%) OAuth
6 7 (1.32%) SAML
7 6 (1.13%) J2EE
7 6 (1.13%) SailPoint
7 6 (1.13%) Web Services
8 4 (0.75%) OLE
8 4 (0.75%) OpenID
8 4 (0.75%) REST
8 4 (0.75%) XML
9 3 (0.57%) EJB
9 3 (0.57%) JSP
9 3 (0.57%) RESTful
9 3 (0.57%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.87%) Management Information System
2 35 (6.60%) Security Posture
3 29 (5.47%) Cyber Threat
4 19 (3.58%) Operational Technology
5 16 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.83%) Security Operations Centre
7 14 (2.64%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.89%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.89%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 9 (1.70%) PKI
10 7 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 7 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.32%) IoT
10 7 (1.32%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.13%) Cyberattack
11 6 (1.13%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 43 (8.11%) Windows
2 29 (5.47%) Linux
3 14 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.38%) CentOS
6 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.38%) Unix
7 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (22.83%) Information Security
2 74 (13.96%) Agile
3 64 (12.08%) DevOps
3 64 (12.08%) Incident Response
4 62 (11.70%) Risk Management
4 62 (11.70%) Security Architecture
5 61 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (11.13%) Project Management
7 58 (10.94%) SIEM
8 56 (10.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 53 (10.00%) Security Operations
10 49 (9.25%) Vulnerability Management
11 44 (8.30%) Data Protection
11 44 (8.30%) Penetration Testing
12 38 (7.17%) Cloud Security
12 38 (7.17%) Identity Access Management
12 38 (7.17%) Roadmaps
13 35 (6.60%) Change Management
13 35 (6.60%) Mentoring
14 32 (6.04%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 25 (4.72%) JavaScript
2 21 (3.96%) PowerShell
2 21 (3.96%) Python
3 15 (2.83%) Java
4 13 (2.45%) SQL
5 8 (1.51%) C++
6 6 (1.13%) Bash
6 6 (1.13%) C#
7 5 (0.94%) Go
8 4 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.57%) Perl
10 1 (0.19%) Bicep
10 1 (0.19%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.19%) PHP
10 1 (0.19%) R
10 1 (0.19%) Ruby
10 1 (0.19%) Rust
10 1 (0.19%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 168 (31.70%) Security Cleared
2 118 (22.26%) SC Cleared
3 78 (14.72%) CISSP
4 59 (11.13%) CISM
5 43 (8.11%) DV Cleared
6 41 (7.74%) Degree
7 19 (3.58%) CISA
8 14 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (2.26%) CEH
9 12 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
11 10 (1.89%) CRISC
11 10 (1.89%) PMP
12 8 (1.51%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.32%) CCNA
13 7 (1.32%) CREST Certified
13 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (1.13%) CTC Cleared
14 6 (1.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (18.68%) NIST
2 98 (18.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (8.68%) NCSC
4 33 (6.23%) GDPR
5 19 (3.58%) GRC
6 17 (3.21%) PCI DSS
7 12 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (2.08%) COBIT
9 7 (1.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 7 (1.32%) ISO 22301
10 6 (1.13%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 4 (0.75%) Automotive SPICE
12 4 (0.75%) AUTOSAR
12 4 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.75%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.75%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 44 (8.30%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.02%) Docker
3 9 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.75%) Snort
5 4 (0.75%) vSphere
6 3 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.38%) XenApp
8 1 (0.19%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.19%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 23 (4.34%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.15%) Terraform
3 19 (3.58%) Ansible
4 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.32%) Nessus
5 6 (1.13%) SCCM
5 6 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.75%) BladeLogic
6 4 (0.75%) CSIRT
6 4 (0.75%) Functional Safety
6 4 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.75%) Kibana
6 4 (0.75%) QRadar
6 4 (0.75%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 2 (0.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.38%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (0.38%) Nmap
7 2 (0.38%) SCOM
7 2 (0.38%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 96 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.21%) Splunk
3 16 (3.02%) Palo Alto
4 15 (2.83%) Cisco
4 15 (2.83%) CyberArk
5 13 (2.45%) VMware
6 12 (2.26%) Oracle
7 10 (1.89%) Citrix
7 10 (1.89%) Google
7 10 (1.89%) Qualys
8 9 (1.70%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.51%) Rapid7
9 8 (1.51%) Sparx
10 6 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.13%) Sophos
11 5 (0.94%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.75%) Altiris
12 4 (0.75%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.75%) F5
12 4 (0.75%) Okta