AVG Contract Job Trends in England

AVG
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of AVG products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AVG over the 6 months leading up to 1 November 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 AVG Technologies.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AVG 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.003% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.007% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £145 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 - -
75th Percentile £155 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £150 - -

All Vendors
England

AVG 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,943 13,987 17,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.81% 44.90% 44.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,912 8,402 11,805
10th Percentile £281 £300 £258
25th Percentile £404 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £737
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 690 443 621
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.45 £16.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.88% -19.45% +75.60%
75th Percentile £43.63 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £73.95 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -22.63% -25.71% +75.00%

AVG
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

AVG job vacancy trend in England

AVG
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AVG.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AVG

AVG
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AVG.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AVG

AVG
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AVG within the England region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 1 £150 -
AVG
UK

AVG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Google Workspace
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 8
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Autodesk
1 1 (100.00%) Barracuda Networks
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Draytek
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Kaspersky
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) NETGEAR
1 1 (100.00%) Sage
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Sophos
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) Toshiba
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) WatchGuard
1 1 (100.00%) Webroot
1 1 (100.00%) Wyse