SANS Contracts in the East of England

SANS Institute
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for SANS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 - 115
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SANS 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.16% - 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.48% - 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £825 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
75th Percentile £875 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £681 £500 £675
% change year-on-year +36.25% -25.93% +3.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

SANS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the East of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 421 440 619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.20% 28.21% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 163 307
10th Percentile £195 £207 £269
25th Percentile £350 £309 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £598 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 150 144
10th Percentile £16.30 £16.30 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £43.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.42% +104.76% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.45 £73.93 £71.83
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £55.00
% change year-on-year -48.21% -11.71% +22.22%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SANS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SANS in the East of England

SANS
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SANS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SANS

SANS
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SANS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 25 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire - 2 £850 - 1
SANS
England

SANS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) YubiKey
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Clearswift