Boundary Protection Contracts with Work from Home Options

Boundary Protection
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 Boundary Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Boundary Protection 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 340 461 607
Rank change year-on-year +121 +146 -
Contract jobs citing Boundary Protection 1 7 8
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.028% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.031% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 7
10th Percentile - - £541
25th Percentile £513 £563 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £794 £800
90th Percentile - £1,053 -
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £750
% change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Boundary Protection 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%

Boundary Protection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Boundary Protection trend for jobs with a WFH option

Boundary Protection
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 Boundary Protection.

Boundary Protection daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Boundary Protection
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Change Advisory Board
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Release Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow