Hybrid/Remote Cyberattack Contract Job Trends

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 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 297 328
Rank change year-on-year -55 +31 +100
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 1 9 13
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.008% 0.093% 0.088%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.022% 0.27% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - £564 £425
25th Percentile - £650 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -49.04% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile - £688 £688
90th Percentile - £705 £699
UK median daily rate £628 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -3.46% +6.12% +11.36%

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 4,651 3,292 4,306
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.15% 33.90% 29.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,906 2,200 2,914
10th Percentile £360 £340 £325
25th Percentile £431 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £846
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.24% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 86 188
10th Percentile £19.25 £17.15 £16.03
25th Percentile £28.00 £26.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £45.63 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -7.36% -6.19%
75th Percentile £76.00 £64.52 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £83.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £32.95 £35.50
% change year-on-year +29.63% -7.20% +57.88%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyberattack and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cyberattack job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cyberattack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cyberattack

Cyberattack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google