CrowdStrike Contracts

CrowdStrike
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of CrowdStrike products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CrowdStrike over the 6 months to 28 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 CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 688 809
Rank change year-on-year +135 +121 -134
Contract jobs citing CrowdStrike 41 28 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.095% 0.047% 0.052%
As % of the Vendors category 0.22% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 22 33
10th Percentile £378 £208 £430
25th Percentile £419 £325 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £581 £650
90th Percentile £688 £650 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -20.00%

All Vendors
UK

CrowdStrike 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,599 35,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.57% 42.88% 39.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,421 17,163 23,490
10th Percentile £263 £273 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 691 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.03 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.16
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% +0.85%

CrowdStrike
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CrowdStrike in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CrowdStrike in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CrowdStrike over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CrowdStrike in the UK

CrowdStrike
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CrowdStrike within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +120 27 £500 +8.11% 23
UK excluding London +72 18 £475 +2.70% 14
Work from Home +130 16 £483 -11.47% 7
London +107 12 £650 +76.27% 10
South East +26 8 £478 -17.85% 6
Scotland - 6 £300 - 3
East of England - 2 - - 1
North of England +31 1 - - 1
West Midlands +28 1 - - 2
Midlands +23 1 - - 2
North West +23 1 - - 1
South West +14 1 £425 - 1

CrowdStrike
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 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) Azure
2 11 (26.83%) AWS
2 11 (26.83%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (12.20%) Entra ID
3 5 (12.20%) Mimecast
4 2 (4.88%) GCP
4 2 (4.88%) IaaS
4 2 (4.88%) PaaS
4 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.88%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.51%) Firewall
2 4 (9.76%) DHCP
2 4 (9.76%) DNS
2 4 (9.76%) Network Security
3 3 (7.32%) VPN
4 2 (4.88%) LAN
4 2 (4.88%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.88%) WAN
5 1 (2.44%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) Power BI
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.32%) Finance
4 2 (4.88%) Automotive
4 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Analyst
2 12 (29.27%) Security Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Security Analyst
4 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) IT Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) SOC Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Architect
5 4 (9.76%) IT Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) IT Security Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Lead
6 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) IT Security Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Junior
6 3 (7.32%) Senior
7 2 (4.88%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Deployment Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Lead Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) SOC Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) OpenID
1 4 (9.76%) SAML
2 1 (2.44%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Cyberattack
2 6 (14.63%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (9.76%) Management Information System
4 3 (7.32%) Operational Technology
4 3 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.88%) Fat Client
5 2 (4.88%) PKI
5 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.88%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.88%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.44%) Clustering
6 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (56.10%) Windows
2 11 (26.83%) Linux
3 5 (12.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (4.88%) Unix
5 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.44%) AIX
6 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (29.27%) Incident Response
3 11 (26.83%) SIEM
4 10 (24.39%) Security Operations
5 9 (21.95%) Information Security
6 8 (19.51%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (14.63%) Offensive Security
8 6 (14.63%) Task Automation
8 6 (14.63%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (12.20%) Cloud Security
9 5 (12.20%) Security Monitoring
10 4 (9.76%) Data Security
10 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (9.76%) Risk Management
10 4 (9.76%) Stakeholder Identification
10 4 (9.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 3 (7.32%) Change Management
11 3 (7.32%) Migration
11 3 (7.32%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Degree
2 3 (7.32%) CISSP
3 2 (4.88%) GCIA
3 2 (4.88%) GCIH
3 2 (4.88%) GIAC
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) CCNA
4 1 (2.44%) CCNP
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.44%) MCSA
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.44%) COBIT
3 1 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) GRC
3 1 (2.44%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.44%) NCSC
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (46.34%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.88%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) SCCM
2 4 (9.76%) Nessus
3 2 (4.88%) CSIRT
3 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.88%) Nexpose
3 2 (4.88%) QRadar
3 2 (4.88%) RSA Archer
3 2 (4.88%) SCOM
3 2 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.88%) Terraform
4 1 (2.44%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.44%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.44%) SCOrch
4 1 (2.44%) SCVMM
4 1 (2.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.51%) Splunk
3 7 (17.07%) Zscaler
4 5 (12.20%) Okta
5 4 (9.76%) Rapid7
5 4 (9.76%) VMware
6 3 (7.32%) Netskope
7 2 (4.88%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (4.88%) Citrix
7 2 (4.88%) CyberArk
7 2 (4.88%) HP
7 2 (4.88%) Oracle
7 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.88%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.88%) Varonis
8 1 (2.44%) Aruba
8 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.44%) Proofpoint
8 1 (2.44%) Qualys
8 1 (2.44%) Trend Micro