Cybersecurity & Cloud Freelance Evidence Hub
Compare security and infrastructure specialties through core occupations rather than creating doorway pages for tool and certification aliases.
Catalog coverage
10 core occupations · 152 searchable aliases · 10 records with official U.S. percentile evidence
Official employee-wage P50 range among those empirical records: $29.74–$65.38/hr. This is a catalog range, not an observed freelancer-rate distribution.
Occupation evidence
| Core occupation | Evidence anchor | Mapping | Source vintage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Architect | $64.45/hr employee P50 | Strong official occupation proxy | May 2025 |
| Cloud Engineer | $64.45/hr employee P50 | Strong official occupation proxy | May 2025 |
| Cybersecurity Analyst | $62.11/hr employee P50 | Direct official occupation match | May 2025 |
| Database Administrator | $50.30/hr employee P50 | Direct official occupation match | May 2025 |
| IT Support Specialist | $29.74/hr employee P50 | Direct official occupation match | May 2025 |
| Network Administrator | $47.66/hr employee P50 | Direct official occupation match | May 2025 |
| Penetration Tester | $62.11/hr employee P50 | Strong official occupation proxy | May 2025 |
| Security Architect | $62.11/hr employee P50 | Strong official occupation proxy | May 2025 |
| Site Reliability Engineer | $65.38/hr employee P50 | Strong official occupation proxy | May 2025 |
| Systems Administrator | $47.66/hr employee P50 | Direct official occupation match | May 2025 |
How to use this category
Choose the closest core occupation, then inspect its national occupation mapping and limitation. TransparentRate applies the provisional ×1.75 planning coefficient once; it does not add an experience, client-market, geography, purchasing-power, or category premium.
Why aliases do not get separate pages
Tool names, specialties, and near-synonymous job titles resolve to these core occupations inside the calculator. Keeping one evidence page per selected core occupation avoids thin duplicate landing pages and keeps source corrections centralized.