Cyber Essentials Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cyber Essentials
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials 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 318 390 539
Rank change year-on-year +72 +149 -54
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 23 67 84
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.13% 2.25% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 55 68
10th Percentile £165 £430 £310
25th Percentile £375 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £480
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +13.66% +6.56%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £600
90th Percentile £738 £800 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £30.75 £26.25
Median hourly rate - £31.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - +14.55% -
75th Percentile - £32.25 £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £31.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year - +14.55% +30.95%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

Cyber Essentials 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
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cyber Essentials trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Essentials
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.

Cyber Essentials daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cyber Essentials daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Essentials
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 Cyber Essentials.

Cyber Essentials hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Essentials
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 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Azure
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (4.35%) AWS KMS
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub
3 1 (4.35%) IaaS
3 1 (4.35%) PaaS
3 1 (4.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) LAN
2 2 (8.70%) Network Security
3 1 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) Intranet
3 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.35%) VPN
3 1 (4.35%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Ant
2 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Legal
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Security Specialist
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Information Security Specialist
2 4 (17.39%) Information Specialist
2 4 (17.39%) IT Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Security Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Compliance Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Governance Manager
3 3 (13.04%) IT Governance Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Coordinator
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Integration Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) SAML
2 1 (4.35%) JSON
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.35%) XML
2 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.04%) Wiki
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
1 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (34.78%) Information Security
3 5 (21.74%) Information Management
3 5 (21.74%) ISMS
3 5 (21.74%) IT Strategy
3 5 (21.74%) Risk Analysis
4 4 (17.39%) Logistics
4 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
4 4 (17.39%) Risk Register
4 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
4 4 (17.39%) Security Operations
5 3 (13.04%) Asset Management
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
5 3 (13.04%) IT Governance
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) Software Asset Management
5 3 (13.04%) TOGAF
5 3 (13.04%) Zero Trust
6 2 (8.70%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
1 2 (8.70%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) Bash
2 1 (4.35%) Go
2 1 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.35%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (56.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (17.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (13.04%) GDPR
3 3 (13.04%) NIST
4 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
5 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (4.35%) IASME
5 1 (4.35%) ISAE 3402
5 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Ansible
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) SCCM
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.35%) VMware