Cyber Security Posture Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cybersecurity Posture
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Security Posture 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 Cyber Security Posture over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 456 618
Rank change year-on-year +116 +162 -129
Contract jobs citing Cyber Security Posture 3 10 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.041% 0.025%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.071% 0.13% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 11
10th Percentile £481 - -
25th Percentile £509 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £750 £760
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -1.32% -0.33%
75th Percentile £609 - £770
90th Percentile £615 - -
UK median daily rate £556 £750 £760
% change year-on-year -25.83% -1.32% +4.83%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Cyber Security Posture 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 4,242 7,767 13,904
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.68% 31.56% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 5,492 9,944
10th Percentile £325 £364 £361
25th Percentile £438 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% +9.05%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £825 £795 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 149 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £13.66
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 £85.00 £66.90
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +5.33%

Cyber Security Posture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cyber Security Posture trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Security Posture
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 Cyber Security Posture.

Cyber Security Posture daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cyber Security Posture over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Cyber Security Posture daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Security Posture
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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Economics
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Tech Ops
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CEH
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft