Threat Detection Contracts with Work from Home Options

Threat Detection
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 Detection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Detection over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 413 579
Rank change year-on-year +98 +166 -107
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 26 42 40
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.17% 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.19% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 30 35
10th Percentile £491 £562 £478
25th Percentile £550 £606 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £628 £728 £650
90th Percentile £731 £754 £790
UK median daily rate £600 £566 £625
% change year-on-year +6.01% -9.44% +28.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Threat Detection 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 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +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 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £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 £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Threat Detection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Threat Detection trend for jobs with a WFH option

Threat Detection
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 Detection.

Threat Detection daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Threat Detection daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Threat Detection
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 6 (23.08%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (15.38%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
2 4 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Banking
3 5 (19.23%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Security Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) SOC Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) SOC Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Applications Tester
5 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (3.85%) Security Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.85%) SOC Architect
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Security Posture
2 6 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 4 (15.38%) Public Cloud
4 3 (11.54%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.85%) Cyberattack
6 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (50.00%) SIEM
3 11 (42.31%) Incident Response
4 10 (38.46%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 10 (38.46%) Threat Intelligence
5 7 (26.92%) Security Operations
5 7 (26.92%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 6 (23.08%) Security Architecture
7 5 (19.23%) Analytics
7 5 (19.23%) Cloud Security
7 5 (19.23%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (19.23%) Use Case
8 4 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (15.38%) Digital Strategy
8 4 (15.38%) Log Aggregation
8 4 (15.38%) Log Analytics
8 4 (15.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 4 (15.38%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (11.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) CISSP
2 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) CISM
3 4 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.85%) CREST Certified
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (26.92%) NIST
2 4 (15.38%) NCSC
3 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) QRadar
1 4 (15.38%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 9 (34.62%) Splunk
3 2 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 2 (7.69%) Qualys
3 2 (7.69%) Rapid7
3 2 (7.69%) Sophos
4 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.85%) F5