Due Diligence Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Due Diligence
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Due Diligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Due Diligence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 314 437
Rank change year-on-year +21 +123 +96
Contract jobs citing Due Diligence 11 31 40
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.20% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.23% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 29
10th Percentile £472 £350 £323
25th Percentile £567 £458 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% +7.14% -8.84%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £545
90th Percentile - £750 £685
UK median daily rate £603 £518 £533
% change year-on-year +16.57% -2.82% +2.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Due Diligence 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 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
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% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Due Diligence
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Due Diligence trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Due Diligence
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Due Diligence.

Due Diligence daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Due Diligence
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Due Diligence over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Due Diligence daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Due Diligence
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 1 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Akamai
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) BGP
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) DMVPN
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) DWDM
2 1 (9.09%) GLBP
2 1 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
2 1 (9.09%) IGRP
2 1 (9.09%) Internet
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) MPLS
2 1 (9.09%) Multicast
2 1 (9.09%) NetScaler
2 1 (9.09%) OSPF
2 1 (9.09%) SNMP
2 1 (9.09%) SSL
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) French Language
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Italian Language
4 2 (18.18%) Spanish Language
5 1 (9.09%) Law
5 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Security Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Account Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Operational Security Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Operations Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Relationships Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Security Operations Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Transition Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) 802.1X
1 1 (9.09%) Ajax
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) Bootstrap
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
1 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (9.09%) CMDB
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) FMCG
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Business Development
1 2 (18.18%) Contract Negotiation
1 2 (18.18%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (18.18%) ITSM
1 2 (18.18%) Migration
1 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (18.18%) Privileged Access Management
1 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
1 2 (18.18%) SIEM
1 2 (18.18%) SOAR
1 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (18.18%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
1 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (27.27%) CISSP
2 2 (18.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (18.18%) CCSP
2 2 (18.18%) GCIH
2 2 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (9.09%) ACCA
3 1 (9.09%) CCAB
3 1 (9.09%) CCDP
3 1 (9.09%) CIMA
3 1 (9.09%) CIPFA
3 1 (9.09%) CISM
3 1 (9.09%) CRISC
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Arista
2 1 (9.09%) Blue Coat
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Citrix
2 1 (9.09%) F5
2 1 (9.09%) Juniper
2 1 (9.09%) Riverbed
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Zscaler