Head of Security Contracts with Work from Home Options

Head of Security
UK > Work from Home

The median Head of Security daily rate in Work from Home is £738 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 459 599
Rank change year-on-year +115 +140 -114
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Security 4 17 23
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.067% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.070% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 13
10th Percentile £694 £638 £650
25th Percentile £703 £644 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £700 £750
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £759 £800 £875
90th Percentile £761 £838 £963
UK median daily rate £875 £700 £675
% change year-on-year +25.00% +3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £100.00
UK median hourly rate - - £100.00

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 14,165 24,342 42,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,495 17,179 30,870
10th Percentile £325 £358 £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 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.68 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Head of Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Head of Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Security
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 Head of Security.

Head of Security daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Security Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Head of Security 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 Head of Security in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (50.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (50.00%) Splunk
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) XenApp
3 2 (50.00%) Nessus
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity

Head of Security 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
4 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Security
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Resilience Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 2 (50.00%) Nessus
1 2 (50.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (25.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
1 2 (50.00%) VMware