Cyber Kill Chain Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cyber Kill Chain
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 455 607
Rank change year-on-year +126 +152 -133
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 16 10 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.041% 0.043%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 17
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile £505 £623 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £690 £775 £788
90th Percentile £719 £805 £805
UK median daily rate £645 £638 £550
% change year-on-year +1.18% +15.91% -15.38%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Cyber Kill Chain is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,235 7,675 13,937
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.93% 31.65% 31.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,895 5,435 10,011
10th Percentile £325 £369 £363
25th Percentile £441 £456 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.14% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 144 225
10th Percentile £15.80 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £25.50 £24.54 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +28.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £67.95
UK median hourly rate £34.21 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +55.50% -18.46% +4.78%

Cyber Kill Chain
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cyber Kill Chain trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Kill Chain
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 Kill Chain.

Cyber Kill Chain daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Cyber Kill Chain daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Kill Chain
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 4 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (25.00%) tcpdump
2 4 (25.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Security Manager
2 2 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Incident Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Security Incident Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (25.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (43.75%) Cyber Defence
2 7 (43.75%) Management Information System
3 4 (25.00%) YARA
4 2 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (6.25%) Cyberattack
5 1 (6.25%) Insider Threat
5 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) SIEM
2 13 (81.25%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (81.25%) Incident Management
2 13 (81.25%) Incident Response
2 13 (81.25%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 13 (81.25%) Use Case
3 11 (68.75%) Root Cause Analysis
4 9 (56.25%) Information Security
5 8 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 8 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 7 (43.75%) Case Management
6 7 (43.75%) CRM
6 7 (43.75%) Mentoring
6 7 (43.75%) Protective Monitoring
6 7 (43.75%) SOAR
6 7 (43.75%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (37.50%) Security Operations
8 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
8 5 (31.25%) Penetration Testing
8 5 (31.25%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (81.25%) NIST
2 8 (50.00%) NIST 800
3 4 (25.00%) GDPR
4 1 (6.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Kibana
2 4 (25.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Google
2 4 (25.00%) Splunk
2 4 (25.00%) Tanium