Cyber Defence Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cyber Defence
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 442 579
Rank change year-on-year +97 +137 -126
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 7 27 34
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.045% 0.10% 0.076%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.32% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 23
10th Percentile - £517 £640
25th Percentile £525 £625 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £783 £725
Median % change year-on-year -26.56% +8.00% +31.82%
75th Percentile £792 £790 £763
90th Percentile - £838 -
UK median daily rate £640 £700 £725
% change year-on-year -8.57% -3.45% +31.82%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Cyber Defence is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,474 8,325 13,952
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.62% 31.40% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,006 5,833 9,949
10th Percentile £323 £363 £354
25th Percentile £425 £455 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £670 £688 £638
90th Percentile £800 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 150 224
10th Percentile £15.37 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £24.06 £32.56 £20.19
Median hourly rate £45.63 £63.00 £43.23
Median % change year-on-year -27.57% +45.75% +38.65%
75th Percentile £61.13 £70.00 £55.25
90th Percentile £70.75 £85.17 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +22.30% -16.72% +5.88%

Cyber Defence
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cyber Defence trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Defence
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 Cyber Defence.

Cyber Defence daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Defence
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Cyber Defence daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Defence
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 (42.86%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Ethical Hacker
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Kali Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) Threat Intelligence
3 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
3 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (42.86%) Cyber Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Ethical Hacking
4 3 (42.86%) Information Security
4 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
5 2 (28.57%) Case Management
5 2 (28.57%) CRM
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) SOAR
5 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) OSCP
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) GIAC
3 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 2 (28.57%) NIST 800
3 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft