SANS Contracts with Work from Home Options

SANS Institute
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for SANS qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 443 573
Rank change year-on-year +113 +130 -118
Contract jobs citing SANS 11 25 42
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.073% 0.100% 0.096%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.27% 0.39% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 22 35
10th Percentile £550 £628 £450
25th Percentile £610 £700 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £684 £750 £688
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% +9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £747 - £738
90th Percentile £788 £806 £767
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -1.89%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

SANS is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications 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 academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,100 6,366 8,706
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.20% 25.37% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,587 4,286 6,114
10th Percentile £331 £381 £369
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 275 222
10th Percentile £15.85 £19.25 £19.37
25th Percentile £25.13 £42.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.68 £48.79
Median % change year-on-year -33.51% +32.56% +21.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £65.44
90th Percentile £83.20 £83.40 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +11.55%

SANS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SANS trend for jobs with a WFH option

SANS
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 SANS.

SANS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SANS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SANS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

SANS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SANS
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 3 (27.27%) Apache
1 3 (27.27%) IIS
1 3 (27.27%) WebLogic
1 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Network Security
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) DB2
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
2 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (9.09%) CouchDB
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
3 1 (9.09%) Redis
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Burp Suite
1 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
1 1 (9.09%) Darcs
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jaeger
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Mercurial
1 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
1 1 (9.09%) Travis CI
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) CyberArk Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) CyberArk Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) CyberArk Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) EJB
1 3 (27.27%) J2EE
1 3 (27.27%) JSP
1 3 (27.27%) LDAP
1 3 (27.27%) Servlets
1 3 (27.27%) Web Services
1 3 (27.27%) XML
2 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (18.18%) Regular Expression
3 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cyberattack
2 1 (9.09%) CBDC
2 1 (9.09%) CSOC
2 1 (9.09%) Digital Currency
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Information Security
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) SIEM
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (36.36%) Use Case
4 3 (27.27%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (27.27%) Identity Management
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (27.27%) RBAC
4 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 3 (27.27%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) OWASP
5 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) C
5 1 (9.09%) C#
5 1 (9.09%) C++
5 1 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.09%) PHP
5 1 (9.09%) Rust
5 1 (9.09%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) CISSP
2 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (36.36%) Degree
3 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
4 3 (27.27%) CEH
5 2 (18.18%) CISM
5 2 (18.18%) RHCE
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
6 1 (9.09%) CCSK
6 1 (9.09%) CCSP
6 1 (9.09%) CISA
6 1 (9.09%) CREST Certified
6 1 (9.09%) CRISC
6 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
6 1 (9.09%) FFIEC
6 1 (9.09%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) GRC
2 2 (18.18%) NIST
3 1 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (9.09%) ISO 20022
3 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (9.09%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
1 2 (18.18%) Host Intrusion Detection System
1 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Graylog
2 1 (9.09%) Kibana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) logstash
2 1 (9.09%) Nagios
2 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
2 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) CyberArk
2 3 (27.27%) Splunk
3 2 (18.18%) AlienVault
3 2 (18.18%) ArcSight
3 2 (18.18%) Carbon Black
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 2 (18.18%) LogRhythm
3 2 (18.18%) Symantec
4 1 (9.09%) Checkmarx
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft