Cybersecurity Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 57 84
Rank change year-on-year +8 +27 +15
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 583 1,028 1,379
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.79% 3.95% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 4.40% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 757 999
10th Percentile £403 £425 £388
25th Percentile £500 £500 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £761 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 10
10th Percentile £26.75 £20.00 £26.25
25th Percentile £40.00 £25.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £87.46 £40.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.65% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £87.53 £73.63 £60.93
90th Percentile £87.64 £88.63 £63.40
UK median hourly rate £83.77 £65.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year +27.89% +41.62% -2.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,515 23,376 40,505
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.86% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,014 16,510 29,383
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 541 540
10th Percentile £15.03 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £30.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +35.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.78
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Cybersecurity
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cybersecurity trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity
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.

Cybersecurity daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Cybersecurity daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Cybersecurity hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity
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 9 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.20%) Confluence
3 6 (1.03%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.86%) IIS
5 3 (0.51%) Apache
5 3 (0.51%) IBM HTTP Server
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.51%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.51%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (0.51%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
Applications
1 18 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.54%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.34%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.34%) Trello
7 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 123 (21.10%) Azure
2 74 (12.69%) SaaS
3 70 (12.01%) AWS
4 65 (11.15%) IaaS
5 59 (10.12%) PaaS
6 34 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (4.12%) Entra ID
8 22 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
9 16 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (2.74%) GCP
10 14 (2.40%) GitHub
11 13 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (2.23%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.03%) AWS CloudTrail
12 6 (1.03%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (0.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 5 (0.86%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (0.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 63 (10.81%) Firewall
2 42 (7.20%) Broadband
3 41 (7.03%) 5G
3 41 (7.03%) Network Security
4 24 (4.12%) Intrusion Detection
5 16 (2.74%) Intranet
5 16 (2.74%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.57%) WAN
7 12 (2.06%) DNS
8 10 (1.72%) LAN
8 10 (1.72%) VPN
9 8 (1.37%) Internet
10 7 (1.20%) DHCP
11 5 (0.86%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.69%) HTTP
12 4 (0.69%) tcpdump
12 4 (0.69%) VLAN
12 4 (0.69%) Wireless
13 3 (0.51%) HTTPS
13 3 (0.51%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.20%) Power BI
2 6 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.86%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.69%) Apache Hive
4 4 (0.69%) Hadoop
4 4 (0.69%) Tableau
5 3 (0.51%) DB2
6 2 (0.34%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.17%) Big Data
7 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (4.46%) JIRA
2 10 (1.72%) SonarQube
3 8 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.20%) Git
5 4 (0.69%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.69%) IDA Disassembler
5 4 (0.69%) Subversion
6 3 (0.51%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.17%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.17%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.17%) JMeter
8 1 (0.17%) RStudio
8 1 (0.17%) Xcode
General
1 141 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 83 (14.24%) Finance
3 74 (12.69%) Public Sector
4 68 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (8.75%) Law
6 48 (8.23%) Organisational Skills
7 31 (5.32%) Banking
8 22 (3.77%) Legal
9 18 (3.09%) Police
10 13 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.89%) Local Government
12 9 (1.54%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.37%) Automotive
13 8 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.03%) Marketing
15 5 (0.86%) Electronics
15 5 (0.86%) Retail
15 5 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 105 (18.01%) Architect
2 75 (12.86%) Analyst
3 70 (12.01%) Security Architect
4 62 (10.63%) Consultant
5 58 (9.95%) Senior
6 52 (8.92%) Security Engineer
7 49 (8.40%) Security Specialist
8 44 (7.55%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 44 (7.55%) Penetration Tester
8 44 (7.55%) Tester
9 41 (7.03%) Security Penetration Tester
9 41 (7.03%) Security Tester
9 41 (7.03%) Testing Specialist
10 40 (6.86%) Security Analyst
11 39 (6.69%) Project Manager
11 39 (6.69%) Security Manager
12 36 (6.17%) Lead
13 34 (5.83%) Security Consultant
14 31 (5.32%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 23 (3.95%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.06%) Web Services
2 16 (2.74%) CSS
3 15 (2.57%) HTML
4 11 (1.89%) ARM Templates
5 10 (1.72%) Azure Blueprints
6 9 (1.54%) LDAP
7 8 (1.37%) .NET
8 7 (1.20%) Middleware
8 7 (1.20%) OAuth
8 7 (1.20%) SAML
9 6 (1.03%) J2EE
9 6 (1.03%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.86%) RESTful
11 4 (0.69%) OLE
11 4 (0.69%) OpenID
11 4 (0.69%) REST
11 4 (0.69%) XML
12 3 (0.51%) EJB
12 3 (0.51%) JSP
12 3 (0.51%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 50 (8.58%) Management Information System
2 48 (8.23%) Mobile App
3 33 (5.66%) Security Posture
4 28 (4.80%) Cyber Threat
5 23 (3.95%) Operational Technology
6 17 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.57%) Security Operations Centre
8 14 (2.40%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.72%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.72%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 8 (1.37%) IoT
11 8 (1.37%) PKI
12 7 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 7 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.20%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.03%) Cyberattack
13 6 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.55%) Windows
2 30 (5.15%) Linux
3 14 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.34%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) CentOS
7 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (20.58%) Information Security
2 95 (16.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 82 (14.07%) Penetration Testing
4 81 (13.89%) Agile
5 67 (11.49%) Application Security
5 67 (11.49%) Incident Response
6 65 (11.15%) DevOps
7 64 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (10.98%) Security Architecture
7 64 (10.98%) SIEM
8 63 (10.81%) Risk Management
9 62 (10.63%) Project Management
10 57 (9.78%) Security Testing
11 55 (9.43%) Security Operations
12 54 (9.26%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 52 (8.92%) OWASP
14 49 (8.40%) Vulnerability Management
15 45 (7.72%) Identity Access Management
16 43 (7.38%) Data Protection
17 38 (6.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 24 (4.12%) Python
2 23 (3.95%) JavaScript
3 21 (3.60%) PowerShell
4 19 (3.26%) Java
5 13 (2.23%) SQL
6 8 (1.37%) C++
7 6 (1.03%) C#
8 5 (0.86%) Bash
8 5 (0.86%) Go
8 5 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.51%) Perl
10 1 (0.17%) Bicep
10 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.17%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.17%) PHP
10 1 (0.17%) R
10 1 (0.17%) Ruby
10 1 (0.17%) Rust
10 1 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 214 (36.71%) Security Cleared
2 122 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 82 (14.07%) CISSP
4 60 (10.29%) CISM
5 47 (8.06%) CREST Certified
5 47 (8.06%) SANS
6 46 (7.89%) OSCP
7 45 (7.72%) DV Cleared
7 45 (7.72%) GIAC
8 44 (7.55%) GPEN
9 42 (7.20%) Degree
10 19 (3.26%) CISA
11 15 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (2.06%) CEH
13 12 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (1.72%) Azure Certification
15 10 (1.72%) CRISC
15 10 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (16.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 97 (16.64%) NIST
3 86 (14.75%) NCSC
4 75 (12.86%) GDPR
5 58 (9.95%) PCI DSS
6 19 (3.26%) GRC
7 13 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (1.89%) COBIT
9 7 (1.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 7 (1.20%) ISO 22301
9 7 (1.20%) QA
10 6 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.86%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 4 (0.69%) Automotive SPICE
12 4 (0.69%) AUTOSAR
12 4 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 46 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.92%) Docker
3 10 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.69%) Snort
6 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.51%) vSphere
7 2 (0.34%) XenApp
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (4.12%) Kubernetes
1 24 (4.12%) Terraform
2 20 (3.43%) Ansible
3 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.03%) Nessus
4 6 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.86%) Kibana
5 5 (0.86%) SCCM
6 4 (0.69%) BladeLogic
6 4 (0.69%) CSIRT
6 4 (0.69%) Functional Safety
6 4 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.69%) QRadar
6 4 (0.69%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 2 (0.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.34%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (0.34%) SCOM
8 1 (0.17%) Puppet
8 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 100 (17.15%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.03%) Virgin Media
3 18 (3.09%) Palo Alto
4 17 (2.92%) Splunk
5 16 (2.74%) Cisco
6 14 (2.40%) CyberArk
7 13 (2.23%) VMware
8 12 (2.06%) Oracle
9 10 (1.72%) Citrix
9 10 (1.72%) Google
9 10 (1.72%) Qualys
10 8 (1.37%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.37%) Sparx
11 6 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (1.03%) Sophos
12 5 (0.86%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.69%) Altiris
13 4 (0.69%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.69%) F5