Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 413 599
Rank change year-on-year +93 +186 -155
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 24 61 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.24% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.25% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 54 13
10th Percentile £535 £475 £315
25th Percentile £564 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +8.93% +1.58%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £673 £795 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -2.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,235 24,337 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 95.31% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,550 17,175 30,867
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 560 606
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.70 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.10% +55.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cybersecurity Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Engineer
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 Cybersecurity Engineer.

Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity Engineer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 6 (25.00%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (25.00%) SIEM
4 5 (20.83%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
4 5 (20.83%) CISSP
4 5 (20.83%) Automotive
5 4 (16.67%) Electronics
5 4 (16.67%) CISM
5 4 (16.67%) Project Management
5 4 (16.67%) Cryptography
5 4 (16.67%) Validation
5 4 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 4 (16.67%) Threat Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.67%) Safety Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) Automotive SPICE
5 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 4 (16.67%) Functional Safety
5 4 (16.67%) AUTOSAR
5 4 (16.67%) Log Aggregation
5 4 (16.67%) QRadar
5 4 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (16.67%) Threat Detection

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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 (8.33%) AWS
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
1 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.17%) Akamai
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (4.17%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Burp Suite
General
1 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Automotive
3 4 (16.67%) Electronics
4 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 5 (20.83%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (4.17%) Cyberattack
4 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Insider Threat
4 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (25.00%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) SIEM
4 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (16.67%) Cryptography
4 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 4 (16.67%) Log Aggregation
4 4 (16.67%) Project Management
4 4 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (16.67%) Safety Engineering
4 4 (16.67%) Threat Analysis
4 4 (16.67%) Threat Detection
4 4 (16.67%) Validation
5 3 (12.50%) Application Security
5 3 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 3 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) CISSP
2 4 (16.67%) CISM
2 4 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Automotive SPICE
1 4 (16.67%) AUTOSAR
2 3 (12.50%) NIST
3 2 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (8.33%) GDPR
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.17%) NCSC
4 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Functional Safety
1 4 (16.67%) QRadar
2 1 (4.17%) HP Fortify
2 1 (4.17%) Nessus
2 1 (4.17%) Nmap
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.17%) Forcepoint
3 1 (4.17%) Rapid7
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) Tripwire