SANS Contracts in the UK excluding London

SANS Institute
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SANS qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 407 509
Rank change year-on-year +51 +102 -83
Contract jobs citing SANS 35 50 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.21% 0.052%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.46% 0.63% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 31 5
10th Percentile - £475 £485
25th Percentile £463 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £530
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +32.08% +3.11%
75th Percentile £688 £838 £545
90th Percentile £700 - £878
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £613
% change year-on-year -3.57% +14.29% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.75 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +13.98% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £72.90
90th Percentile - £78.20 £75.66
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +13.98% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,617 7,936 8,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 37.05% 33.21% 26.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,398 5,327 5,282
10th Percentile £269 £281 £251
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £600
90th Percentile £725 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 933 666 534
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.13 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.28 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.94 £49.94 £34.69
Median % change year-on-year -18.02% +43.96% +0.43%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £66.56
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +10.82%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SANS in the UK excluding London

SANS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SANS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SANS in the UK excluding London

SANS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SANS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SANS in the UK excluding London

SANS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SANS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SANS in the UK excluding London

SANS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SANS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South West +36 28 £500 - 2
South East +1 5 - - 3
Wales - 2 £666 -
SANS
UK

SANS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) IaaS
1 5 (14.29%) PaaS
1 5 (14.29%) SaaS
2 4 (11.43%) AWS
2 4 (11.43%) Azure
3 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) 5G
1 5 (14.29%) Broadband
2 1 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) MySQL
1 2 (5.71%) RDBMS
1 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Burp Suite
1 2 (5.71%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.86%) AppScan
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) Subversion
General
1 5 (14.29%) Law
1 5 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Finance
3 1 (2.86%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (2.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Analyst
1 18 (51.43%) SOC Analyst
2 10 (28.57%) SOC Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Penetration Tester
3 5 (14.29%) Security Penetration Tester
3 5 (14.29%) Security Specialist
3 5 (14.29%) Security Tester
3 5 (14.29%) Tester
3 5 (14.29%) Testing Specialist
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Security Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior
5 1 (2.86%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) SIEM Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) Web Services
2 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 24 (68.57%) CSOC
2 22 (62.86%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (17.14%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.86%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (88.57%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (77.14%) SIEM
3 26 (74.29%) Analytics
3 26 (74.29%) Use Case
4 25 (71.43%) Incident Response
5 24 (68.57%) Security Operations
5 24 (68.57%) Time Management
6 22 (62.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (20.00%) Application Security
7 7 (20.00%) OWASP
7 7 (20.00%) Security Testing
8 5 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 5 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
8 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (5.71%) Containerisation
9 2 (5.71%) DevOps
9 2 (5.71%) Ethical Hacking
9 2 (5.71%) Project Management
9 2 (5.71%) SOAR
9 2 (5.71%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.86%) Bash
1 1 (2.86%) PHP
1 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.86%) Python
1 1 (2.86%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 31 (88.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (68.57%) Degree
2 24 (68.57%) DV Cleared
3 7 (20.00%) CREST Certified
4 5 (14.29%) GIAC
4 5 (14.29%) GPEN
4 5 (14.29%) OSCP
5 2 (5.71%) CEH
5 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) GDPR
1 5 (14.29%) NCSC
1 5 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Ansible
1 2 (5.71%) Grafana
1 2 (5.71%) Graylog
1 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.71%) Nagios
1 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) HP Fortify
2 1 (2.86%) Nessus
2 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.86%) Puppet
2 1 (2.86%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Virgin Media
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Splunk
3 2 (5.71%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.86%) Veracode