Hybrid/Remote OpenDNS Contract Job Trends

OpenDNS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OpenDNS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 - 416
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenDNS 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% - 0.005%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.024% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £450
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate - - £450

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

OpenDNS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,141 4,819 7,892
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.17% 37.88% 39.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,855 3,314 5,849
10th Percentile £337 £340 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £786 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 40 127
10th Percentile £20.50 £14.53 £16.40
25th Percentile £27.51 £23.69 £22.51
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -28.50% +42.86%
75th Percentile £66.13 £61.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.50 £77.77
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%

OpenDNS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

OpenDNS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OpenDNS
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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Hyperautomation
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Snort
1 1 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Nexpose
1 1 (100.00%) Suricata
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) Carbon Black
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) FireEye
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler