GPG13 Contracts with Work from Home Options

Good Practice Guide 13 (GPG 13)
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 GPG13 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GPG13 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 346 - 618
Rank change year-on-year - - -140
Contract jobs citing GPG13 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% - 0.011%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.13% - 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - £518
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.16%
75th Percentile £500 - £588
90th Percentile £530 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -28.00% +8.70% -2.16%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

GPG13 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%

GPG13
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GPG13 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GPG13 trend for jobs with a WFH option

GPG13
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 GPG13.

GPG13 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GPG13
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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) CISA
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NCSC
1 3 (100.00%) NIST