Cyberattack Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cyberattack
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 435 575
Rank change year-on-year +109 +140 -99
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 15 22 48
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.092% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 0.29% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 36
10th Percentile £388 £460 £433
25th Percentile £441 £506 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -10.20% +5.15%
75th Percentile £684 £631 £700
90th Percentile £691 £655 £794
UK median daily rate £613 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +11.36% -4.35% -0.65%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Cyberattack falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,304 7,539 13,934
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.17% 31.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 5,349 10,060
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £435 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £835 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 147 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.36 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £62.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 12 June 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Confluence
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
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Automotive
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Security Engineer
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%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Author
3 1 (6.67%) IT Security Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Security Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Author
3 1 (6.67%) Tester
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 1 (6.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Unix
4 1 (6.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (53.33%) Incident Response
2 4 (26.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 4 (26.67%) Security Operations
3 3 (20.00%) Analytics
3 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (20.00%) Offensive Security
3 3 (20.00%) SIEM
3 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (13.33%) Advanced Persistent Threat
4 2 (13.33%) Budgeting
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Red Team
4 2 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
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 4 (26.67%) CISM
1 4 (26.67%) CISSP
2 2 (13.33%) CEH
2 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) RHCE
2 2 (13.33%) SANS
3 1 (6.67%) CREST Certified
3 1 (6.67%) OSCP
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) NCSC
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
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%) Atlassian
3 2 (13.33%) Carbon Black
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) LogRhythm
3 2 (13.33%) Symantec
3 2 (13.33%) Tanium
4 1 (6.67%) F5
4 1 (6.67%) IBM