Blue Team Contracts with Work from Home Options

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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 Blue Team skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Blue Team 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 334 455 614
Rank change year-on-year +121 +159 -121
Contract jobs citing Blue Team 5 10 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.034% 0.040% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.045% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £515 £586 -
25th Percentile £538 £659 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +40.00% -3.61%
75th Percentile £641 - £525
90th Percentile £736 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £606 £500
% change year-on-year -9.17% +21.10% -13.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Blue Team 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%

Blue Team
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Blue Team trend for jobs with a WFH option

Blue Team
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 Blue Team.

Blue Team daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Blue Team
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Blue Team daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Blue Team
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 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Security Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (60.00%) Red Team
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco