Cyber Kill Chain Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cyber Kill Chain
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain 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 Kill Chain over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 465 611
Rank change year-on-year +131 +146 -147
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 11 12 21
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.072% 0.046% 0.047%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 17
10th Percentile £489 - £450
25th Percentile £505 £623 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £775 £788
90th Percentile £620 £805 £805
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Cyber Kill Chain 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 4,401 8,134 13,932
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.68% 31.46% 31.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,971 5,722 9,941
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £431 £454 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £644
90th Percentile £800 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 151 228
10th Percentile £15.47 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £31.38 £20.56
Median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +29.21% +27.98%
75th Percentile £65.03 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.08
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%

Cyber Kill Chain
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cyber Kill Chain trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Kill Chain
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 Kill Chain.

Cyber Kill Chain daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Cyber Kill Chain daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Kill Chain
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 4 (36.36%) tcpdump
2 4 (36.36%) Wireshark
3 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Apache Hive
1 4 (36.36%) Hadoop
1 4 (36.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Manufacturing
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Analyst
1 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Lead
1 2 (18.18%) Security Manager
1 2 (18.18%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Incident Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Security Incident Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (36.36%) YARA
2 3 (27.27%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
3 2 (18.18%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (9.09%) Cyberattack
4 1 (9.09%) Insider Threat
4 1 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) SIEM
2 9 (81.82%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (81.82%) Incident Management
2 9 (81.82%) Incident Response
2 9 (81.82%) Use Case
3 8 (72.73%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 7 (63.64%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (63.64%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (54.55%) Security Operations
6 5 (45.45%) Data Protection
6 5 (45.45%) Information Security
6 5 (45.45%) Penetration Testing
6 5 (45.45%) Security Architecture
7 4 (36.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 4 (36.36%) Inversion of Control
7 4 (36.36%) Malware Reverse Engineering
7 4 (36.36%) Reverse Engineering
7 4 (36.36%) Threat Intelligence
8 3 (27.27%) Case Management
8 3 (27.27%) SOAR
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) NIST
2 4 (36.36%) GDPR
3 3 (27.27%) NIST 800
4 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Google
1 4 (36.36%) Splunk
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft