Cyber Defence Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cyber Defence
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence 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 331 427 586
Rank change year-on-year +96 +159 -100
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 10 30 37
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.068% 0.13% 0.084%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% 0.40% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 28
10th Percentile £520 £543 £597
25th Percentile £525 £600 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £783 £725
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% +8.00% +31.82%
75th Percentile - £792 £763
90th Percentile £697 £860 -
UK median daily rate £675 £745 £725
% change year-on-year -9.36% +2.76% +31.82%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Cyber Defence 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%

Cyber Defence
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cyber Defence trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Defence
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 Defence.

Cyber Defence daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Defence
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Cyber Defence daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Defence
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:

General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Lead
1 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (80.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 8 (80.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (90.00%) Information Security
3 8 (80.00%) Case Management
3 8 (80.00%) CRM
3 8 (80.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 8 (80.00%) Incident Management
3 8 (80.00%) Incident Response
3 8 (80.00%) Mentoring
3 8 (80.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 8 (80.00%) Protective Monitoring
3 8 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 8 (80.00%) SIEM
3 8 (80.00%) SOAR
3 8 (80.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 8 (80.00%) Use Case
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) GIAC
2 1 (10.00%) OSCP
2 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) NIST
2 8 (80.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kibana
1 5 (50.00%) logstash
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) Tanium