Cyber Essentials PLUS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cyber Essentials PLUS
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 Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Essentials PLUS over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 439 587
Rank change year-on-year +102 +148 -108
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 4 28 32
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.11% 0.072%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.19% 0.91% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 23 21
10th Percentile £470 £460 -
25th Percentile £481 £513 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £358
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +46.85% -48.93%
75th Percentile £550 £558 £484
90th Percentile £580 £579 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £545 £425
% change year-on-year -8.26% +28.24% -15.84%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

Cyber Essentials PLUS is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance 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 quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,162 3,067 5,880
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.39% 12.21% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,489 2,245 4,192
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £419 £420 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 64 118
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.56 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £23.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £39.80 £42.73
Median % change year-on-year -47.24% -6.85% +112.19%
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.94 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.28 £66.45
UK median hourly rate £20.55 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -41.28% +27.27% +30.95%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cyber Essentials PLUS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Essentials PLUS
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 Essentials PLUS.

Cyber Essentials PLUS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cyber Essentials PLUS over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Cyber Essentials PLUS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Essentials PLUS
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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Email Filtering
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Nessus
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (25.00%) VMware