Cybersecurity Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cybersecurity
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 54 56
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 +27
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 330 537 1,028
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.37% 3.54% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 4.03% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 396 769
10th Percentile £350 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £700
90th Percentile £688 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 15
10th Percentile £45.81 £26.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £45.89 £40.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £50.97 £87.46 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.72% +118.65% -20.00%
75th Percentile £59.58 £87.53 £70.13
90th Percentile £61.78 £87.64 £85.70
UK median hourly rate £63.91 £83.77 £65.50
% change year-on-year -23.71% +27.89% +56.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,943 13,319 22,924
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.20% 87.90% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,147 8,917 16,193
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 575 527
10th Percentile £13.92 £15.17 £18.67
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £39.04 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% -22.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.15 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

Cybersecurity
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cybersecurity trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

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 remote working options citing Cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity hourly rate 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 7 (2.12%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.91%) Confluence
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.61%) CMS
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.30%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) JBoss
4 1 (0.30%) SAS
4 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (24.55%) Azure
2 39 (11.82%) AWS
3 20 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (5.45%) GCP
5 15 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 13 (3.94%) Entra ID
6 13 (3.94%) IaaS
7 12 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
8 11 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.82%) GitHub
9 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.82%) SaaS
10 5 (1.52%) Serverless
11 4 (1.21%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (1.21%) PaaS
12 3 (0.91%) Akamai
12 3 (0.91%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (0.91%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.91%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 53 (16.06%) Firewall
2 27 (8.18%) Network Security
3 16 (4.85%) Intrusion Detection
4 11 (3.33%) VPN
5 9 (2.73%) DNS
6 6 (1.82%) HTTP
7 5 (1.52%) DHCP
7 5 (1.52%) Internet
8 4 (1.21%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.21%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.21%) WAN
9 3 (0.91%) Modbus
9 3 (0.91%) SAN
9 3 (0.91%) SMTP
9 3 (0.91%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.91%) Wireless
10 2 (0.61%) LAN
10 2 (0.61%) LTE
10 2 (0.61%) SSL
10 2 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.64%) Power BI
2 8 (2.42%) Tableau
3 6 (1.82%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.21%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.91%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.61%) Metadata
6 2 (0.61%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.30%) Flink
7 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (2.42%) Git
2 7 (2.12%) JIRA
3 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.91%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.91%) Mocha
3 3 (0.91%) Postman
3 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.61%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.61%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.30%) JUnit
5 1 (0.30%) MLflow
5 1 (0.30%) MSI
5 1 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 121 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 64 (19.39%) Finance
3 50 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.79%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (5.76%) Banking
7 10 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.73%) Legal
9 8 (2.42%) Retail
10 6 (1.82%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.52%) Law
11 5 (1.52%) Military
12 4 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 65 (19.70%) Analyst
2 53 (16.06%) Architect
3 34 (10.30%) Consultant
4 31 (9.39%) Security Analyst
4 31 (9.39%) Security Architect
5 30 (9.09%) Security Manager
6 27 (8.18%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 24 (7.27%) Senior
8 23 (6.97%) Project Manager
9 21 (6.36%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 18 (5.45%) Security Consultant
11 17 (5.15%) Security Engineer
12 15 (4.55%) Security Project Manager
13 14 (4.24%) Business Analyst
13 14 (4.24%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 14 (4.24%) Lead
13 14 (4.24%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
14 12 (3.64%) IT Manager
14 12 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.52%) .NET
1 5 (1.52%) CSS
1 5 (1.52%) HTML
1 5 (1.52%) Kafka
1 5 (1.52%) Node.js
1 5 (1.52%) REST
2 4 (1.21%) AngularJS
3 3 (0.91%) AWS CDK
3 3 (0.91%) GatsbyJS
3 3 (0.91%) GraphQL
3 3 (0.91%) HTML5
3 3 (0.91%) Jest
3 3 (0.91%) OpenAPI
3 3 (0.91%) React
3 3 (0.91%) SailPoint
3 3 (0.91%) SVG
3 3 (0.91%) Swagger
3 3 (0.91%) Vue
3 3 (0.91%) WebRTC
3 3 (0.91%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.09%) Operational Technology
1 30 (9.09%) Security Posture
2 19 (5.76%) Cyber Threat
3 18 (5.45%) Management Information System
3 18 (5.45%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.73%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.42%) Cyberattack
6 8 (2.42%) SCADA
7 7 (2.12%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.12%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.82%) Cyber Security Posture
8 6 (1.82%) Insider Threat
9 5 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.52%) PKI
10 4 (1.21%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.21%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.91%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.09%) Windows
2 27 (8.18%) Linux
3 10 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.52%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.21%) Unix
7 3 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.61%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.61%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.30%) Solaris
9 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (15.76%) SIEM
3 50 (15.15%) Incident Response
4 47 (14.24%) Security Operations
5 45 (13.64%) Risk Management
6 44 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 43 (13.03%) Vulnerability Management
8 42 (12.73%) Agile
9 41 (12.42%) Information Security
10 32 (9.70%) Project Management
11 31 (9.39%) Security Architecture
12 30 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
13 29 (8.79%) Cloud Security
13 29 (8.79%) Roadmaps
14 25 (7.58%) DevOps
14 25 (7.58%) Penetration Testing
14 25 (7.58%) Threat Modelling
15 22 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
16 21 (6.36%) Change Management
16 21 (6.36%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 38 (11.52%) Python
2 30 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.64%) Kusto Query Language
4 11 (3.33%) SQL
5 9 (2.73%) Bash
6 6 (1.82%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.21%) Rust
8 3 (0.91%) C#
8 3 (0.91%) Java
9 2 (0.61%) C
9 2 (0.61%) C++
9 2 (0.61%) Perl
9 2 (0.61%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.30%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.30%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.30%) FoxPro (VFP)
10 1 (0.30%) Groovy
10 1 (0.30%) Haskell
10 1 (0.30%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (16.36%) CISSP
1 54 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 47 (14.24%) SC Cleared
3 40 (12.12%) Degree
4 26 (7.88%) CISM
5 18 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.85%) CEH
7 15 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (4.24%) Azure Certification
9 12 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
10 10 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (2.73%) Master's Degree
12 8 (2.42%) GCIH
13 7 (2.12%) DV Cleared
13 7 (2.12%) GIAC
14 6 (1.82%) CISA
14 6 (1.82%) PhD
14 6 (1.82%) PMI Certification
15 5 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.52%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (17.88%) NIST
2 35 (10.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (8.48%) GDPR
4 16 (4.85%) NCSC
5 12 (3.64%) GRC
5 12 (3.64%) QA
6 9 (2.73%) HIPAA
6 9 (2.73%) PCI DSS
6 9 (2.73%) SLA
7 8 (2.42%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (2.12%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.82%) NIST 800
10 5 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (1.21%) Data Quality
11 4 (1.21%) PMO
12 3 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.61%) COBIT
13 2 (0.61%) Def Stans
System Software
1 20 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.12%) vSphere
4 3 (0.91%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.30%) Docker
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (2.73%) Ansible
3 7 (2.12%) QRadar
4 4 (1.21%) CSIRT
4 4 (1.21%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.21%) Terraform
5 3 (0.91%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.91%) Puppet
5 3 (0.91%) SCCM
6 2 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.61%) Nessus
6 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.30%) CASB
7 1 (0.30%) Grafana
7 1 (0.30%) Nmap
7 1 (0.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.85%) VMware
3 13 (3.94%) Qualys
3 13 (3.94%) Splunk
4 12 (3.64%) CyberArk
5 10 (3.03%) Palo Alto
6 9 (2.73%) Oracle
7 8 (2.42%) Cisco
8 7 (2.12%) Okta
8 7 (2.12%) Tenable
9 6 (1.82%) Google
9 6 (1.82%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.21%) Planview
10 4 (1.21%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.21%) SAP
11 3 (0.91%) ArcSight
11 3 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.91%) ForgeRock
11 3 (0.91%) IBM
11 3 (0.91%) Rapid7