Sophos Contracts in England

Sophos
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sophos over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sophos PLC.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 618 724
Rank change year-on-year +116 +106 -137
Contract jobs citing Sophos 39 55 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.11% 0.086%
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% 0.26% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 43 40
10th Percentile £255 £158 £135
25th Percentile £366 £245 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year +27.86% -6.67% -24.24%
75th Percentile £594 £450 £450
90th Percentile £675 £488 £575
UK median daily rate £425 £350 £375
% change year-on-year +21.43% -6.67% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £16.55 - -
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.71% -4.76%
75th Percentile £19.60 £20.00 £18.75
90th Percentile £19.81 £42.50 £19.50
UK median hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +5.71% -4.76%

All Vendors
England

Sophos is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,707 21,094 27,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.27% 41.93% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,966 14,514 19,065
10th Percentile £256 £270 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,019 598 795
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.18 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.45 £18.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £39.55 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.11% +88.33% -3.45%
75th Percentile £56.37 £64.50 £44.03
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.23 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £43.75 £21.02
% change year-on-year -49.54% +108.14% -6.24%

Sophos
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Sophos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Sophos in England

Sophos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sophos in England.

Daily rate trend for Sophos in England

Sophos
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sophos in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sophos in England

Sophos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sophos in England.

Hourly rate trend for Sophos in England

Sophos
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sophos within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +40 16 £400 +79.78% 9
North West +37 15 £400 +79.78% 4
East of England +11 9 £550 +84.87% 7
London +80 5 £538 +19.44% 4
West Midlands +30 5 £455 +13.75% 1
Midlands +22 5 £455 +123.04% 3
South East +17 3 £375 +7.14% 3
Yorkshire +27 1 £375 - 4
South West +16 1 £425 -15.00% 5
Sophos
UK

Sophos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (28.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (15.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (7.69%) Exchange Server 2000
3 3 (7.69%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (7.69%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (7.69%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (7.69%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Shopify
2 1 (2.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 19 (48.72%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (41.03%) Azure
3 11 (28.21%) Mimecast
4 10 (25.64%) AWS
5 5 (12.82%) Power Platform
6 4 (10.26%) GCP
7 2 (5.13%) BigCommerce
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.56%) IaaS
8 1 (2.56%) OCI
8 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.56%) PaaS
8 1 (2.56%) SaaS
8 1 (2.56%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.08%) Firewall
2 7 (17.95%) SMTP
3 5 (12.82%) DNS
4 4 (10.26%) DHCP
5 3 (7.69%) LAN
5 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 3 (7.69%) VPN
5 3 (7.69%) WAN
6 2 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (2.56%) 3G
7 1 (2.56%) MPLS
7 1 (2.56%) NetScaler
7 1 (2.56%) SAN
7 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.56%) Skype
7 1 (2.56%) SNMP
7 1 (2.56%) SSL
7 1 (2.56%) VoIP
7 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Hudson
General
1 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Advertising
3 2 (5.13%) Marketing
3 2 (5.13%) Retail
4 1 (2.56%) Back Office
4 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (17.95%) Lead
1 7 (17.95%) Messaging Engineer
2 4 (10.26%) Analyst
2 4 (10.26%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (7.69%) Architect
3 3 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Desktop Support
4 2 (5.13%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (5.13%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Service Analyst
4 2 (5.13%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (5.13%) SOC Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Technologist
5 1 (2.56%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.56%) Client/Server
1 1 (2.56%) Cyberattack
1 1 (2.56%) LIMS
1 1 (2.56%) NHS
1 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
1 1 (2.56%) PKI
1 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (51.28%) Windows
2 8 (20.51%) Windows Server
3 5 (12.82%) Windows 10
4 4 (10.26%) Apple iOS
4 4 (10.26%) Linux
4 4 (10.26%) Mac OS
5 3 (7.69%) Windows 2000
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (17.95%) SIEM
4 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 6 (15.38%) Threat Detection
4 6 (15.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 5 (12.82%) Contingency Planning
5 5 (12.82%) Incident Response
5 5 (12.82%) ITIL
5 5 (12.82%) Security Testing
6 4 (10.26%) Migration
6 4 (10.26%) Open Source
6 4 (10.26%) Patch Management
7 3 (7.69%) Analytics
7 3 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.69%) Incident Management
7 3 (7.69%) Information Security
7 3 (7.69%) Security Management
7 3 (7.69%) Security Operations
8 2 (5.13%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.13%) Python
3 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) Degree
2 5 (12.82%) DV Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) MCP
3 2 (5.13%) CTC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) MCSE
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.13%) MOS
4 1 (2.56%) CCNA
4 1 (2.56%) CCNP
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.56%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (12.82%) NIST
2 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.56%) Terminal Server
4 1 (2.56%) vSphere
4 1 (2.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (17.95%) MAILsweeper
3 5 (12.82%) SCCM
4 2 (5.13%) FortiGate
4 2 (5.13%) WSUS
5 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.64%) Rapid7
3 8 (20.51%) VMware
4 7 (17.95%) Trend Micro
5 4 (10.26%) Aruba
6 3 (7.69%) Cisco
6 3 (7.69%) HP
6 3 (7.69%) IronPort
6 3 (7.69%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.13%) Adobe
7 2 (5.13%) Apple
7 2 (5.13%) CheckPoint
7 2 (5.13%) Citrix
7 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.13%) Meraki
7 2 (5.13%) NetApp
7 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
7 2 (5.13%) SAP
7 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
7 2 (5.13%) Sitecore