Boundary Protection Contracts in England

Boundary Protection
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Boundary Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Boundary Protection over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 533 642
Rank change year-on-year +50 +109 +129
Contract jobs citing Boundary Protection 2 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.024% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.028% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £606 £528 -
25th Percentile £614 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% - -
75th Percentile £652 £650 £794
90th Percentile £662 £673 £1,053
UK median daily rate £631 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +5.21% - -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Boundary Protection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Boundary Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Boundary Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Boundary Protection in England

Boundary Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Boundary Protection in England.

Daily rate trend for Boundary Protection in England

Boundary Protection
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 Boundary Protection within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South West +46 1 £663 -1.85%
South East +39 1 £600 +14.29% 1
North West - 1 £663 -
North of England - 1 £663 -
Boundary Protection
UK

Boundary Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Bid Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Protective Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable