Government Security Classifications Contracts with Work from Home Options

Government Security Classifications (GSC)
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 Government Security Classifications skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Government Security Classifications over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 - 617
Rank change year-on-year - - -136
Contract jobs citing Government Security Classifications 28 0 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% - 0.013%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.26% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 0 6
10th Percentile £460 - £658
25th Percentile £475 - £715
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £730
Median % change year-on-year - - +131.75%
75th Percentile £588 - £745
90th Percentile - - £766
UK median daily rate £495 £569 £663
% change year-on-year -12.97% -14.15% +51.43%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

Government Security Classifications is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance 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 quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,227 3,132 5,918
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.54% 12.17% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,284 4,206
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £420 £418 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £699
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 64 119
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.56 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £24.56 £18.13
Median hourly rate £22.87 £41.50 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -44.89% -5.57% +116.82%
75th Percentile £44.38 £60.94 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.28 £66.30
UK median hourly rate £20.80 £36.25 £28.00
% change year-on-year -42.61% +29.46% +33.02%

Government Security Classifications
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Government Security Classifications trend for jobs with a WFH option

Government Security Classifications
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 Government Security Classifications.

Government Security Classifications daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Government Security Classifications
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 21 (75.00%) Confluence
2 17 (60.71%) SharePoint
2 17 (60.71%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (75.00%) Azure
2 17 (60.71%) Azure Stack
3 4 (14.29%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (60.71%) BGP
1 17 (60.71%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 21 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 17 (60.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.71%) Police
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Microsoft Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Consultant
2 6 (21.43%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 6 (21.43%) Security Consultant
3 4 (14.29%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) IT Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 17 (60.71%) Private Cloud
2 4 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (60.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) ITIL
1 18 (64.29%) Service Management
2 17 (60.71%) Capacity Management
2 17 (60.71%) ITSM
2 17 (60.71%) Network Management
2 17 (60.71%) Security Monitoring
3 6 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (21.43%) Data Protection
3 6 (21.43%) Information Security
3 6 (21.43%) Information Security Management
3 6 (21.43%) ISMS
3 6 (21.43%) Security Management
4 4 (14.29%) ArchiMate
4 4 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (7.14%) Agile
5 2 (7.14%) Business Case
6 1 (3.57%) Document Management
6 1 (3.57%) PRINCE2
6 1 (3.57%) Programme Management
6 1 (3.57%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 28 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (60.71%) DV Cleared
3 11 (39.29%) SC Cleared
4 6 (21.43%) CISM
4 6 (21.43%) CISSP
5 1 (3.57%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) NCSC
2 6 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 17 (60.71%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) Atlassian
1 17 (60.71%) Microsoft