Forcepoint Contracts

Forcepoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Forcepoint products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Forcepoint over the 6 months to 27 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 Forcepoint, LLC (formerly Websense).

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 680 753
Rank change year-on-year +108 +73 -90
Contract jobs citing Forcepoint 26 39 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.065% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.15% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 65
10th Percentile £350 £413 £278
25th Percentile £425 £469 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +9.47% +14.46%
75th Percentile £475 £627 £550
90th Percentile £525 £675 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -28.00% +38.89% +25.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £23.80 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -69.76% - -
75th Percentile £45.65 - -
90th Percentile £58.76 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -19.95% - -

All Vendors
UK

Forcepoint 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 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £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 £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £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 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

Forcepoint
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Forcepoint in the UK

Forcepoint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Forcepoint in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Forcepoint in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Forcepoint in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Forcepoint over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Forcepoint in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Forcepoint 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
England +118 23 £450 -13.46% 7
Work from Home +134 20 £450 -28.46% 1
UK excluding London +65 20 £450 -28.00% 3
South East +40 19 £450 -14.29% 1
London +90 3 £635 +28.28% 4
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

Forcepoint
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 (7.69%) IIS
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) AWS
1 3 (11.54%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.69%) Mimecast
2 2 (7.69%) Nutanix
2 2 (7.69%) Rubrik
3 1 (3.85%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Firewall
1 5 (19.23%) LAN
1 5 (19.23%) Wireless
2 4 (15.38%) DNS
2 4 (15.38%) SAN
2 4 (15.38%) WAN
3 3 (11.54%) BGP
3 3 (11.54%) IPsec
3 3 (11.54%) MPLS
3 3 (11.54%) OSPF
3 3 (11.54%) Unified Communications
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (7.69%) DDNS
4 2 (7.69%) DKIM
4 2 (7.69%) DMARC
4 2 (7.69%) DSL
4 2 (7.69%) FCoE
4 2 (7.69%) Junos
4 2 (7.69%) NAS
4 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) IT Security Specialist
1 8 (30.77%) Security Operations Specialist
1 8 (30.77%) Security Specialist
2 6 (23.08%) Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Network Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Support Officer
5 1 (3.85%) Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (69.23%) Management Information System
2 6 (23.08%) Data Centre
3 5 (19.23%) PKI
4 2 (7.69%) Fat Client
4 2 (7.69%) Thin Client
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Unix
2 3 (11.54%) Windows
3 2 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Data Loss Prevention
2 17 (65.38%) SIEM
3 16 (61.54%) Data Security
3 16 (61.54%) Incident Response
3 16 (61.54%) Security Operations
3 16 (61.54%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (19.23%) ITIL
4 5 (19.23%) Kalman Filter
4 5 (19.23%) Migration
4 5 (19.23%) Web Filtering
5 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
5 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (11.54%) Load Balancing
5 3 (11.54%) Mathematics
6 2 (7.69%) Application Packaging
6 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (7.69%) Information Management
6 2 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (7.69%) Patch Management
6 2 (7.69%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.69%) BitLocker
1 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (7.69%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (7.69%) NetBackup
2 2 (7.69%) SCCM
2 2 (7.69%) SCOM
2 2 (7.69%) SCVMM
2 2 (7.69%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (7.69%) VxRail
3 1 (3.85%) Nessus
3 1 (3.85%) QRadar
3 1 (3.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 16 (61.54%) LogRhythm
2 16 (61.54%) Qualys
2 16 (61.54%) Varonis
3 5 (19.23%) Cisco
4 4 (15.38%) F5
4 4 (15.38%) Juniper
4 4 (15.38%) SolarWinds
5 3 (11.54%) VMware
6 2 (7.69%) Avaya
6 2 (7.69%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (7.69%) Brocade
6 2 (7.69%) Commvault
6 2 (7.69%) Dell
6 2 (7.69%) EMC
6 2 (7.69%) HP
6 2 (7.69%) Mitel
6 2 (7.69%) MobileIron
6 2 (7.69%) Proofpoint
6 2 (7.69%) Wyse