SANS Contracts in the City of London

SANS Institute
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for SANS qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 168 194
Rank change year-on-year +46 +26 -50
Contract jobs citing SANS 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.14% 0.11% 0.024%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.66% 0.57% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £653 £508 -
25th Percentile £665 £543 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £698 £688 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% - -
75th Percentile £743 £813 -
90th Percentile £762 - -
Central London median daily rate £698 £688 -
% change year-on-year +1.45% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

SANS is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 452 703 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.53% 19.33% 18.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 409 521
10th Percentile £382 £375 £366
25th Percentile £450 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £640
90th Percentile £775 £821 £725
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 17
10th Percentile £19.45 £18.06 £19.40
25th Percentile £20.22 £20.22 £36.25
Median hourly rate £20.82 £51.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.58% +13.19% +82.00%
75th Percentile £27.00 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £55.05 £71.75 £68.15
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £51.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year -47.57% +13.19% +127.50%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SANS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SANS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SANS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SANS in the City of London

SANS
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SANS in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SANS in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (33.33%) CouchDB
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) Redis
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) AppScan
2 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
2 1 (33.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (33.33%) Darcs
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jaeger
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Mercurial
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) Travis CI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CBDC
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Currency
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) SABSA
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSK
1 1 (33.33%) CISA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CRISC
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) FFIEC
1 1 (33.33%) GIAC
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) ISO 20022
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Graylog
2 1 (33.33%) HP Fortify
2 1 (33.33%) Kibana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) logstash
2 1 (33.33%) Nagios
2 1 (33.33%) Nessus
2 1 (33.33%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Checkmarx
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Veracode