Boundary Protection Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Boundary Protection
UK > Work from Home

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 347 467
Rank change year-on-year +46 +120 +147
Contract jobs citing Boundary Protection 1 2 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.013% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.015% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £528 -
25th Percentile £656 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £669 £650 £794
90th Percentile - £673 £1,053
UK median daily rate £631 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +5.21% - -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Boundary Protection 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 9,017 13,465 23,106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.06% 87.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 8,984 16,334
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Boundary Protection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Boundary Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Boundary Protection trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Boundary Protection
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On