Threat Detection Contracts with Work from Home Options

Threat Detection
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 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 423 583
Rank change year-on-year +111 +160 -109
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 27 42 34
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.17% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.19% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 30 29
10th Percentile £493 £562 £463
25th Percentile £550 £623 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +5.49%
75th Percentile £656 £738 £650
90th Percentile £725 £754 £784
UK median daily rate £600 £566 £600
% change year-on-year +6.05% -5.70% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,053 22,182 40,030
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.73% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,754 15,684 29,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
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 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 510 541
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.44 £27.48 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.93 £37.78
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +40.11% +54.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%

Threat Detection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Threat Detection trend for jobs with a WFH option

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection.

Threat Detection daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Threat Detection over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Threat Detection daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Threat Detection
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 6 (22.22%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (14.81%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) AWS CloudTrail
2 4 (14.81%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
4 4 (14.81%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Security Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) SOC Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Cyber Threat Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) SOC Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Applications Tester
5 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (3.70%) Security Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) SOC Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) Security Posture
2 5 (18.52%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
3 4 (14.81%) Public Cloud
4 3 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.70%) Cyberattack
6 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Unix
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (55.56%) SIEM
3 13 (48.15%) Incident Response
4 9 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 9 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
4 9 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 7 (25.93%) Security Operations
6 6 (22.22%) Security Architecture
7 5 (18.52%) Analytics
7 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
7 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
7 5 (18.52%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (14.81%) Contingency Planning
8 4 (14.81%) Digital Strategy
8 4 (14.81%) Log Aggregation
8 4 (14.81%) Log Analytics
8 4 (14.81%) Security Testing
8 4 (14.81%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (7.41%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) CISSP
2 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) CISM
3 4 (14.81%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.70%) CREST Certified
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (33.33%) NIST
2 4 (14.81%) NCSC
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) QRadar
1 4 (14.81%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 8 (29.63%) Splunk
3 4 (14.81%) Rapid7
3 4 (14.81%) Sophos
4 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
4 2 (7.41%) Qualys
5 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.70%) F5