Inversion of Control Contracts with Work from Home Options

Inversion of Control (IoC)
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 Inversion of Control skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Inversion of Control over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 469 608
Rank change year-on-year +129 +139 -134
Contract jobs citing Inversion of Control 4 2 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.008% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.009% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 13
10th Percentile - £469 £515
25th Percentile £505 £474 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £483 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% -25.77% +57.58%
75th Percentile £524 £491 £725
90th Percentile £540 £497 -
UK median daily rate £510 £875 £650
% change year-on-year -41.71% +34.62% -1.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Inversion of Control is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,413 23,039 40,643
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.76% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,290 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 529 544
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Inversion of Control
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Inversion of Control trend for jobs with a WFH option

Inversion of Control
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 Inversion of Control.

Inversion of Control daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Inversion of Control
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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 4 (100.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Incident Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (100.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (100.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 4 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) Use Case
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk