Hybrid/Remote SANS Contract Job Trends

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 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 329 393
Rank change year-on-year +44 +64 +185
Contract jobs citing SANS 21 2 29
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.016% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.69% 0.063% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 22
10th Percentile £515 - £566
25th Percentile £616 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £656 - £650
75th Percentile £736 - £738
90th Percentile £813 - £750
UK median daily rate £656 £475 £675
% change year-on-year +38.16% -29.63% +12.50%

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 3,046 3,182 5,147
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 31.39% 25.13% 25.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,030 2,024 3,505
10th Percentile £350 £325 £360
25th Percentile £425 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £723 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 149 200
10th Percentile £15.03 £20.45 £19.99
25th Percentile £27.47 £40.00 £36.88
Median hourly rate £43.00 £47.50 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -18.93% -3.16%
75th Percentile £64.06 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.69 £85.00 £77.57
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £49.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -48.67% -9.26% +20.00%

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 Hybrid Work Options

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

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

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 21 September 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 16 (76.19%) Azure
2 15 (71.43%) AWS
3 14 (66.67%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Architect
2 2 (9.52%) Security Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Senior
2 2 (9.52%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Management Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Principal Security Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) QA Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Management Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Technology Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) SOC Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Technology Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Virtualisation Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Vulnerability Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
1 2 (9.52%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) PKI
2 1 (4.76%) SCADA
2 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Cloud Security
1 15 (71.43%) Incident Response
1 15 (71.43%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 15 (71.43%) Security Operations
2 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (19.05%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (14.29%) OWASP
4 3 (14.29%) SIEM
5 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.52%) Risk Management
5 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
5 2 (9.52%) SABSA
5 2 (9.52%) Secure Coding
5 2 (9.52%) Security Architecture
5 2 (9.52%) Security Testing
5 2 (9.52%) SOAR
5 2 (9.52%) TOGAF
6 1 (4.76%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) Python
2 14 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (90.48%) CISSP
2 17 (80.95%) GIAC
3 2 (9.52%) CISM
3 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) CISA
4 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.76%) CREST Certified
4 1 (4.76%) CRISC
4 1 (4.76%) CSSLP
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) GCED
4 1 (4.76%) GCIA
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (90.48%) NIST
2 15 (71.43%) PCI DSS
3 14 (66.67%) HIPAA
4 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (4.76%) GDPR
5 1 (4.76%) NIST 800
5 1 (4.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (4.76%) Istio
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) QRadar
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Palo Alto
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Clearswift
3 1 (4.76%) Qualys
3 1 (4.76%) Rapid7
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) Tenable