Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CASB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CASB 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 587 666 796
Rank change year-on-year +79 +130 -140
Contract jobs citing CASB 11 53 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.089% 0.060%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.22% 0.55% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 38 43
10th Percentile £427 £425 £483
25th Percentile £548 £468 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £549 £588
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% -6.60% +12.44%
75th Percentile £722 £650 £644
90th Percentile £758 £749 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate - £538 £575
% change year-on-year - -6.52% +9.52%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

CASB is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,089 9,618 14,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.08% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,947 10,288
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 211 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £46.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.30% +130.00% -10.11%

CASB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CASB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CASB in the UK

CASB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CASB in the UK

CASB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CASB over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CASB in the UK

CASB
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CASB within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
London +95 9 £650 +20.37% 5
England +94 9 £650 +23.81% 8
Work from Home +102 3 £644 +22.62% 2
UK excluding London +32 1 - - 2
Scotland +28 1 - -

CASB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) IBM Notes
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) OneDrive
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) BGP
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) OSPF
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Information Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Information Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (27.27%) Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Cloud Security
2 6 (54.55%) Data Loss Prevention
3 5 (45.45%) Information Security
4 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
4 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
4 3 (27.27%) Investment Management
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) SIEM
4 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Network Design
5 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
6 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) Data Security
6 1 (9.09%) DRM
6 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Go
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CISM
1 2 (18.18%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) CCIE
2 1 (9.09%) CCNP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) GLBA
2 1 (9.09%) ISAE 3402
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
1 1 (9.09%) HP Fortify
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Palo Alto
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Axway
3 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Lotus
3 1 (9.09%) McAfee
3 1 (9.09%) Meraki
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Netskope
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) Trend Micro
3 1 (9.09%) Zscaler