Insider Threat Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Insider Threats
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Insider Threat in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Insider Threat 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 298 340 476
Rank change year-on-year +42 +136 +149
Contract jobs citing Insider Threat 6 5 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.033% 0.004%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.11% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £425 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -16.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £560
90th Percentile £620 £675 -
UK median daily rate £575 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +27.78% -14.29% +3.24%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Insider Threat falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Insider Threat
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Insider Threat trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Insider Threat
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Insider Threat daily rate 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) CyberArk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (50.00%) Secrets Management
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) RBAC
5 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 1 (16.67%) SIEM
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
5 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CISM
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) CEH
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 2 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) CyberArk
2 2 (33.33%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk