Sophos Contracts in the North West

Sophos
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 18 April 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 153 174
Rank change year-on-year +28 +21 -41
Contract jobs citing Sophos 13 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.47% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 1.17% 0.38% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile - £179 £152
25th Percentile £375 £193 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £223 £170
Median % change year-on-year +124.72% +30.88% +17.24%
75th Percentile £603 £258 £240
90th Percentile £695 £276 £276
England median daily rate £400 £325 £375
% change year-on-year +23.08% -13.33% -24.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £16.40 - -
25th Percentile £16.63 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £19.13 £19.00 £19.44
90th Percentile £19.20 £19.15 £19.78
England median hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +5.71% -4.76%

All Vendors
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,110 1,323 1,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 40.38% 40.82% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 894 983
10th Percentile £275 £288 £181
25th Percentile £400 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £455
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +7.14% +8.33%
75th Percentile £584 £586 £575
90th Percentile £688 £656 £650
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 58 96
10th Percentile £10.95 £14.60 £10.64
25th Percentile £11.90 £20.77 £14.88
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year -57.17% +97.73% -24.14%
75th Percentile £25.25 £49.49 £42.35
90th Percentile £46.00 £58.98 £57.50
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £20.95
% change year-on-year -40.00% +79.04% -4.80%

Sophos
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Sophos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Sophos in the North West

Sophos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sophos in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Sophos in the North West

Sophos
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sophos in the North West over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sophos in the North West

Sophos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sophos in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Sophos in the North West

Sophos
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sophos within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Manchester +28 10 £543 +97.27% 2
Merseyside +14 2 - -
Cheshire - 1 £390 -
Sophos
England

Sophos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (46.15%) Mimecast
4 4 (30.77%) AWS
5 3 (23.08%) GCP
5 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Stack
7 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
7 1 (7.69%) IaaS
7 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
7 1 (7.69%) PaaS
7 1 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (7.69%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Hudson
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Service Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Technologist
4 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Infrastructure
4 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) SOC Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
1 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Apple iOS
2 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Mac OS
3 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Contingency Planning
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL
2 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
2 3 (23.08%) Open Source
2 3 (23.08%) Security Testing
2 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
3 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
3 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
3 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
3 2 (15.38%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Service Design
3 2 (15.38%) SIEM
3 2 (15.38%) SOAR
3 2 (15.38%) Threat Detection
3 2 (15.38%) Workflow
4 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) MCP
2 2 (15.38%) MCSE
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (15.38%) MOS
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (23.08%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (23.08%) SCCM
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) Rapid7
2 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
2 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Proofpoint