Proofpoint Contract Job Trends in England

Proofpoint
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 25 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 Proofpoint, Inc.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 500 560
Rank change year-on-year -10 +60 +158
Contract jobs citing Proofpoint 20 14 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.066% 0.045% 0.043%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.10% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 8
10th Percentile £413 £399 £413
25th Percentile £419 £472 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +19.44% +2.86%
75th Percentile £656 £581 £550
90th Percentile £758 £593 £573
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £450
% change year-on-year -6.98% +19.44% -3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £32.40 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +47.27% -
UK median hourly rate - £39.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - +77.27% -

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,535 13,938 17,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.70% 45.12% 44.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,369 8,376 11,520
10th Percentile £287 £300 £252
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.64%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 717 435 618
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% -26.26% +72.12%
75th Percentile £44.94 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.95 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.18% -32.58% +73.08%

Proofpoint
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Proofpoint job vacancy trend in England

Proofpoint
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Proofpoint

Proofpoint
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proofpoint in England over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Proofpoint in England

Proofpoint
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Proofpoint

Proofpoint
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 Proofpoint within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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 +16 15 £550 +4.76% 3
South East - 2 - - 3
West Midlands -24 1 £425 - 1
Midlands -35 1 £425 - 1
North of England -46 1 £388 +10.71%
North West - 1 £388 -
Proofpoint
UK

Proofpoint
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 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.00%) Collibra
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) Google Workspace
5 1 (5.00%) n8n
5 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.00%) Slack
5 1 (5.00%) WeChat
5 1 (5.00%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) DMARC
2 3 (15.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.00%) DKIM
3 1 (5.00%) LAN
3 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Ataccama
1 1 (5.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Snyk
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (15.00%) Banking
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Local Government
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Exchange Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Exchange Migration Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Security Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Data Integration Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (15.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
1 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (30.00%) Security Operations
2 6 (30.00%) SIEM
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (15.00%) Data Security
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Information Security
5 3 (15.00%) Matrix Organization
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.00%) Validation
6 2 (10.00%) Business Continuity
6 2 (10.00%) Business Continuity Management
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (10.00%) Microservices
6 2 (10.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Project Governance
6 2 (10.00%) Project Management
6 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) CISSP
2 6 (30.00%) CISM
3 2 (10.00%) CEH
3 2 (10.00%) CISA
3 2 (10.00%) CRISC
3 2 (10.00%) GIAC
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (20.00%) NIST
2 3 (15.00%) GDPR
3 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (10.00%) MiFID
4 1 (5.00%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.00%) QRadar
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (5.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Qualys
3 2 (10.00%) Carbon Black
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (10.00%) Rapid7
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) Tanium
3 2 (10.00%) Tenable
3 2 (10.00%) Veracode
4 1 (5.00%) Bloomberg
4 1 (5.00%) Dell
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Informatica
4 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.00%) Veritas