Cyber Essentials PLUS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cyber Essentials PLUS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials PLUS 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 337 431 591
Rank change year-on-year +94 +160 -88
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 4 26 32
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.11% 0.073%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.20% 0.87% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 20 22
10th Percentile £466 £438 -
25th Percentile £472 £509 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £430
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +22.09% -38.57%
75th Percentile £497 £558 £525
90th Percentile £499 £562 £631
UK median daily rate £500 £545 £467
% change year-on-year -8.17% +16.60% -7.52%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

Cyber Essentials PLUS falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,036 2,982 5,763
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 13.80% 12.49% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,167 4,130
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £521 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +1.56% +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £613
90th Percentile £750 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 71 128
10th Percentile £12.23 £17.50 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.94 £19.44
Median hourly rate £24.50 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -21.35% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £58.38 £56.60
90th Percentile £66.75 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cyber Essentials PLUS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Essentials PLUS
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 Essentials PLUS.

Cyber Essentials PLUS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Essentials PLUS
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 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Ant
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Email Filtering
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) VMware