Advanced Persistent Threat Contracts with Work from Home Options

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
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 Advanced Persistent Threat skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Advanced Persistent Threat 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 339 - 611
Rank change year-on-year - - -140
Contract jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.013% - 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £475 - £625
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £585 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +17.00% +11.11% -35.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Advanced Persistent Threat 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%

Advanced Persistent Threat
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Advanced Persistent Threat trend for jobs with a WFH option

Advanced Persistent Threat
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 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Hunter
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 2 (100.00%) Insider Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft