Cybersecurity Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 390 595
Rank change year-on-year +59 +205 -138
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 18 69 31
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.28% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.30% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 62 22
10th Percentile £525 £475 £463
25th Percentile £571 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +0.04% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £728
90th Percentile £688 £800 £783
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £31.80 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -68.20% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,696 23,095 42,294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.27% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,252 16,383 30,711
10th Percentile £325 £360 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £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 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.60
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +32.91% +70.19%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cybersecurity Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Engineer
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 Cybersecurity Engineer.

Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity Engineer.

Cybersecurity Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (33.33%) SIEM
2 6 (33.33%) Security Posture
3 5 (27.78%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (22.22%) QRadar
4 4 (22.22%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (22.22%) Threat Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 4 (22.22%) CISSP
4 4 (22.22%) CISM
4 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (22.22%) Safety Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Log Aggregation
4 4 (22.22%) Threat Detection
4 4 (22.22%) Functional Safety
5 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 2 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (11.11%) AWS
6 2 (11.11%) Splunk
6 2 (11.11%) NIST
7 1 (5.56%) Public Sector

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) Akamai
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (5.56%) AWS KMS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Burp Suite
General
1 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Automotive
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.56%) Law
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Insider Threat
2 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.56%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (33.33%) SIEM
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (22.22%) Log Aggregation
4 4 (22.22%) Safety Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Threat Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) Threat Detection
5 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 2 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (5.56%) Data Loss Prevention
7 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
7 1 (5.56%) SDLC
7 1 (5.56%) Target Operating Model
7 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) CISM
1 4 (22.22%) CISSP
1 4 (22.22%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) NCSC
2 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Functional Safety
1 4 (22.22%) QRadar
2 1 (5.56%) HP Fortify
2 1 (5.56%) Nmap
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.56%) Forcepoint
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce