Insider Threat Contracts with Work from Home Options

Insider Threats
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Insider Threat in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Insider Threat over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 466 618
Rank change year-on-year +134 +152 -137
Contract jobs citing Insider Threat 5 1 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.004% 0.016%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.012% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile - - £445
25th Percentile £425 £520 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +8.00% +60.00%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £588
90th Percentile £675 - £650
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £509
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.24% +15.57%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Insider Threat is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,323 8,043 13,993
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.54% 31.45% 31.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,947 5,652 9,983
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £644
90th Percentile £800 £794 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 153 224
10th Percentile £15.44 £19.00 £12.37
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.56
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +23.60% +29.93%
75th Percentile £65.03 £70.00 £57.81
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.18
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +4.05%

Insider Threat
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Insider Threat trend for jobs with a WFH option

Insider Threat
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 Insider Threat.

Insider Threat daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Insider Threat
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Insider Threat over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Insider Threat daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Insider Threat
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 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) GWT
1 2 (40.00%) JAX-RS
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Restlet
1 2 (40.00%) SAML
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cyberattack
2 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (40.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Attack Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) Red Team
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CISM
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
1 2 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft