Cyberattack Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cyberattack
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyberattack over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 434 575
Rank change year-on-year +108 +141 -103
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 15 21 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.085% 0.099%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 0.27% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 32
10th Percentile £408 £460 £454
25th Percentile £425 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -10.20% +5.15%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £700
90th Percentile £725 £660 £799
UK median daily rate £650 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +14.04% +3.64% -5.58%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Cyberattack is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,256 7,822 14,026
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.91% 31.57% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,910 5,532 10,049
10th Percentile £325 £372 £361
25th Percentile £438 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £687 £650
90th Percentile £825 £794 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 152 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £14.08
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +30.88%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £84.42 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%

Cyberattack
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cyberattack trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyberattack
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 Cyberattack.

Cyberattack daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cyberattack over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Cyberattack daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cyberattack
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 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Automotive
3 1 (6.67%) Billing
3 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Author
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior IT Security Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Author
3 1 (6.67%) Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Regular Expression
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Insider Threat
1 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Incident Response
2 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (26.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 4 (26.67%) Security Operations
4 3 (20.00%) Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Offensive Security
4 3 (20.00%) SIEM
4 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (13.33%) Advanced Persistent Threat
5 2 (13.33%) Budgeting
5 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Red Team
5 2 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
6 1 (6.67%) Product Roadmap
6 1 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) Bash
2 2 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) CISSP
2 4 (26.67%) CISM
3 2 (13.33%) CEH
3 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (13.33%) RHCE
3 2 (13.33%) SANS
3 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) CREST Certified
4 1 (6.67%) OSCP
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) NCSC
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (13.33%) AlienVault
3 2 (13.33%) ArcSight
3 2 (13.33%) Carbon Black
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) LogRhythm
3 2 (13.33%) Symantec
4 1 (6.67%) F5
4 1 (6.67%) IBM