Threat Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Threat Management
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 Threat Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Management over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 445 602
Rank change year-on-year +120 +157 -184
Contract jobs citing Threat Management 12 22 23
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.079% 0.086% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.096% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 16
10th Percentile - £454 £526
25th Percentile £420 £480 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £486 £688
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -29.31% +18.03%
75th Percentile £728 £695 £750
90th Percentile £749 £1,015 £763
UK median daily rate £713 £650 £650
% change year-on-year +9.62% - +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.50
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £37.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Threat Management 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 13,316 22,957 40,627
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,913 16,228 29,490
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £626
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 528 539
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.93 £13.70
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Threat Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Threat Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Threat Management
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 Threat Management.

Threat Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Threat Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Threat Management over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Threat Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Threat Management
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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (16.67%) Route 53
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
1 4 (33.33%) VPN
1 4 (33.33%) Wireless
2 3 (25.00%) LAN
2 3 (25.00%) WAN
2 3 (25.00%) WLAN
3 2 (16.67%) BGP
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (16.67%) OSPF
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (8.33%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM Specialist
1 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Network Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Network Team Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Security Technical Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
1 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) CentOS
3 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) ITSM
2 4 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 4 (33.33%) Time Management
3 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) Application Security
4 2 (16.67%) Business Case
4 2 (16.67%) Change Control
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 2 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CISA
2 1 (8.33%) CISM
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (16.67%) FortiGate
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) Qualys
3 4 (33.33%) VMware
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (8.33%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (8.33%) Google
5 1 (8.33%) Juniper