Cyberattack Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cyberattack
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 329 462
Rank change year-on-year +40 +133 +144
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 15 16 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.10% 0.058%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 0.36% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 11
10th Percentile £475 £409 £400
25th Percentile £553 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £600
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Cyberattack falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Cyberattack
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cyberattack trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cyberattack daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cyberattack over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cyberattack daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cyberattack
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 (6.67%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) DHCP
2 3 (20.00%) HTTP
2 3 (20.00%) SMTP
2 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (13.33%) Ethernet
3 2 (13.33%) Internet
3 2 (13.33%) MQTT
4 1 (6.67%) DNS
4 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Consultant
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Security Consultant
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Data Modeller
5 1 (6.67%) Product Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Research Scientist
5 1 (6.67%) Security Researcher
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (13.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 2 (13.33%) IoT
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Operational Technology
2 2 (13.33%) SCADA
2 2 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Mac OS X
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) BCP
4 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) SIEM
4 3 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 2 (13.33%) Ethical Hacking
5 2 (13.33%) Offensive Security
5 2 (13.33%) Red Team
5 2 (13.33%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Security Management
5 2 (13.33%) Security Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CISM
1 3 (20.00%) CISSP
1 3 (20.00%) CRISC
2 2 (13.33%) CCNA
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (13.33%) CREST Certified
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Scheme
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
2 2 (13.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
1 3 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (20.00%) NIST
2 2 (13.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (13.33%) NCSC
3 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto