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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 440 594
Rank change year-on-year +111 +154 -172
Contract jobs citing Threat Management 10 25 23
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.067% 0.10% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.11% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 14
10th Percentile - £454 £525
25th Percentile £420 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £486 £688
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -29.31% +18.03%
75th Percentile £725 £600 £750
90th Percentile £745 £904 £768
UK median daily rate £700 £538 £650
% change year-on-year +30.23% -17.31% +11.59%
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 13,053 22,182 40,030
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.73% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,754 15,684 29,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 510 541
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.44 £27.48 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.93 £37.78
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +40.11% +54.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%

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 15 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 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) BGP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) IPsec
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) OSPF
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
2 1 (10.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Military
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) SCCM Specialist
1 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Network Team Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Technical Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (50.00%) ITIL
3 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (40.00%) ITSM
3 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 4 (40.00%) Time Management
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) Application Security
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (20.00%) Information Security
5 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
6 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (10.00%) Verification and Validation
6 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CISA
2 1 (10.00%) CISM
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) SLA
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) Qualys
3 5 (50.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) CA
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto