Proofpoint Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Proofpoint
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring knowledge or experience of Proofpoint products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Proofpoint over the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Proofpoint, Inc.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Proofpoint 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.16% - 0.24%
As % of the Vendors category 0.28% - 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.00%
75th Percentile £438 - £625
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Vendors
Birmingham

Proofpoint falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 359 379 429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 56.09% 52.71% 52.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 267 266
10th Percentile £243 £198 £256
25th Percentile £368 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.59% +1.39%
75th Percentile £575 £627 £600
90th Percentile £638 £750 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile £16.98 £13.33 £17.68
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.42 £18.69
Median hourly rate £18.00 £25.06 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.18% -30.38% +84.62%
75th Percentile £20.75 £40.80 £57.50
90th Percentile £26.47 £52.75 £64.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £28.81 £23.00
% change year-on-year +4.12% +25.27% +32.49%

Proofpoint
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Proofpoint relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Proofpoint job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Proofpoint
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Proofpoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Proofpoint

Proofpoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) n8n
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune