Advanced Persistent Threat Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Advanced Persistent Threat skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Advanced Persistent Threat over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 344 457
Rank change year-on-year +38 +113 +160
Contract jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat 1 3 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.020% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.023% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £568
25th Percentile £463 £425 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -30.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £719
90th Percentile - - £753
UK median daily rate £475 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -12.44% -1.36% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Advanced Persistent Threat falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,144 12,785 21,350
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.78% 87.21% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,196 8,597 15,076
10th Percentile £325 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.93%
75th Percentile £636 £638 £650
90th Percentile £760 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.86% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 556 508
10th Percentile £13.20 £15.08 £17.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.19 £25.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% -18.10% +29.63%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.15 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Advanced Persistent Threat
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Advanced Persistent Threat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Advanced Persistent Threat trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Advanced Persistent Threat
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Advanced Persistent Threat.

Advanced Persistent Threat daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Advanced Persistent Threat
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) MISP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Behavioural Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VirusTotal