Social Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Social Engineering
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 Social Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Engineering over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 453 618
Rank change year-on-year +110 +165 -
Contract jobs citing Social Engineering 2 4 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.014% 0.016% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.018% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £650 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +55.56% -
75th Percentile - £750 £563
90th Percentile - - £615
UK median daily rate £700 £705 £450
% change year-on-year -0.71% +56.67% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Social Engineering 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 12,922 21,983 40,479
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.64% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 15,568 29,399
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 508 539
10th Percentile £14.74 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Social Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Social Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Social Engineering
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 Social Engineering.

Social Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Social Engineering
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 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Information
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Security
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blog
1 1 (50.00%) Learning Management System
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) SCORM
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Gamification
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001