SANS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

SANS Institute
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for SANS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 293 307 453
Rank change year-on-year +14 +146 +137
Contract jobs citing SANS 11 38 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.25% 0.093%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.40% 0.90% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 21
10th Percentile £569 £550 £625
25th Percentile £597 £610 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £684 £750
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% -8.83% +15.38%
75th Percentile £691 £747 -
90th Percentile £696 £788 £813
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £700
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +14.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

SANS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

SANS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SANS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SANS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing SANS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) OCI
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
General
1 2 (18.18%) Legal
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Security Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) IT Security Officer
2 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Penetration Test Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Security Officer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Cloud Security
2 6 (54.55%) Incident Response
3 5 (45.45%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 5 (45.45%) Security Operations
4 3 (27.27%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (18.18%) SABSA
5 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
5 2 (18.18%) SIEM
6 1 (9.09%) Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 1 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (9.09%) Information Architecture
6 1 (9.09%) Microservices
6 1 (9.09%) Project Governance
6 1 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (9.09%) Time Management
6 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
1 5 (45.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) CISSP
2 7 (63.64%) GIAC
3 4 (36.36%) OSCP
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
5 1 (9.09%) CCNA
5 1 (9.09%) CCNP
5 1 (9.09%) CCSP
5 1 (9.09%) CEH
5 1 (9.09%) CISA
5 1 (9.09%) CISM
5 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (9.09%) Degree
5 1 (9.09%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) NIST
2 6 (54.55%) PCI DSS
3 5 (45.45%) HIPAA
4 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Palo Alto
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Rapid7