Hybrid/Remote Cyber Kill Chain Contract Job Trends

Cyber Kill Chain
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 302 326
Rank change year-on-year -23 +24 +130
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 8 1 11
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.066% 0.010% 0.073%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.030% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile £525 - £489
25th Percentile £569 - £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £475 £530
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -10.38% -24.29%
75th Percentile £750 - £575
90th Percentile £786 - £620
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Cyber Kill Chain 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 4,202 3,283 4,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.83% 33.19% 28.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,633 2,236 2,953
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -
75th Percentile £625 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 78 195
10th Percentile £18.45 £18.42 £15.45
25th Percentile £25.38 £23.63 £25.50
Median hourly rate £56.96 £41.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.93% -15.46% -11.82%
75th Percentile £71.88 £64.52 £65.02
90th Percentile £85.38 £77.88 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +38.46% +7.76% +34.13%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Cyber Kill Chain job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cyber Kill Chain.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cyber Kill Chain

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months to 4 May 2026.

Cyber Kill Chain daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cyber Kill Chain
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 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Network Security
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) IPFIX
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Military
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Regular Expression
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) MISP
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (25.00%) Taxonomies
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 6 (75.00%) SIEM
3 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
4 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (50.00%) Security Architecture
4 4 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (37.50%) Cyber Intelligence
5 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (37.50%) Open Source
5 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
5 3 (37.50%) SOAR
5 3 (37.50%) Threat Detection
5 3 (37.50%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (37.50%) Use Case
6 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (25.00%) Information Security
6 2 (25.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) GIAC
2 2 (25.00%) GSEC
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) VCAP
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (12.50%) CEH
3 1 (12.50%) CISM
3 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) GCIA
3 1 (12.50%) SSCP
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Host Intrusion Detection System
1 1 (12.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) ArcSight
2 1 (12.50%) Exabeam
2 1 (12.50%) LogRhythm
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk