Hybrid/Remote Intrusion Detection Contract Job Trends

Intrusion Detection
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Intrusion Detection skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 301 337
Rank change year-on-year +24 +36 +219
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 30 32 92
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.25% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.95% 2.38% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 68
10th Percentile £435 £413 £463
25th Percentile £481 £459 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £694 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £44.11 - -
25th Percentile £44.28 - -
Median hourly rate £46.25 £87.46 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.12% - -
75th Percentile £48.13 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £87.46 £75.67
% change year-on-year -47.12% +15.58% +11.28%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Intrusion Detection falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,017 1,343 2,513
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.52% 10.64% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 860 1,672
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £541 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +3.19% +0.87%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 36 81
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.51 £17.30
25th Percentile £44.00 £36.88 £22.50
Median hourly rate £63.50 £49.28 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.86% -6.13% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.08 £66.75
90th Percentile £70.16 £87.46 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £50.50 £55.91
% change year-on-year -13.86% -9.67% +38.77%

Intrusion Detection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Intrusion Detection trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Intrusion Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Intrusion Detection

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Intrusion Detection over the 6 months to 4 September 2025.

Intrusion Detection daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Intrusion Detection
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Intrusion Detection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Intrusion Detection

Intrusion Detection
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 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) AutoCAD
1 4 (13.33%) Navisworks
1 4 (13.33%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (3.33%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Functions
2 1 (3.33%) GCP
2 1 (3.33%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 22 (73.33%) Firewall
2 15 (50.00%) Network Security
3 7 (23.33%) Internet
4 6 (20.00%) VPN
5 4 (13.33%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (6.67%) Modbus
7 1 (3.33%) DNS
7 1 (3.33%) Ethernet
7 1 (3.33%) SSL
7 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.33%) MySQL
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Network Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Architect
3 6 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Lead
4 5 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Communications Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Consultant
5 4 (13.33%) Lead Network Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Senior
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Communications Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Network Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Fluent Bit
1 1 (3.33%) JSON
1 1 (3.33%) Regular Expression
1 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 5 (16.67%) Private Cloud
3 4 (13.33%) Fibre Optics
3 4 (13.33%) Operational Technology
4 2 (6.67%) SCADA
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.33%) CMDB
5 1 (3.33%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.33%) Insider Threat
5 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.33%) PKI
5 1 (3.33%) PropTech
5 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Incident Response
1 12 (40.00%) SIEM
2 9 (30.00%) Network Architecture
3 6 (20.00%) High Availability
3 6 (20.00%) Project Management
3 6 (20.00%) Zero Trust
4 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (16.67%) Migration
5 4 (13.33%) Building Information Modelling
5 4 (13.33%) Digital Engineering
5 4 (13.33%) Information Management
5 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.00%) Network Design
6 3 (10.00%) Security Operations
6 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (6.67%) Anomaly Detection
7 2 (6.67%) Change Control
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (26.67%) CCNP
2 8 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (16.67%) CISM
3 5 (16.67%) CISSP
4 4 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (13.33%) Chartered Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Degree
4 4 (13.33%) RIBA
5 1 (3.33%) CISA
5 1 (3.33%) CRISC
5 1 (3.33%) MCSE
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.33%) RHCE
5 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) NIST
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.33%) COBIT
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) GRC
3 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 5 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Demisto
2 1 (3.33%) Fluentd
2 1 (3.33%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (3.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Cisco
1 9 (30.00%) Zscaler
2 8 (26.67%) Fortinet
2 8 (26.67%) Palo Alto
3 5 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) ArcSight
4 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) Intel
4 1 (3.33%) McAfee
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) Veeam