SANS Contracts in England

SANS Institute
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SANS qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 457 563 728
Rank change year-on-year +106 +165 -155
Contract jobs citing SANS 86 85 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.17% 0.077%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.74% 0.61% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 51 39
10th Percentile - £485 £475
25th Percentile £463 £588 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £683
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +2.56% +5.00%
75th Percentile £770 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £838 £770
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £613
% change year-on-year -3.57% +14.29% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.75 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +13.98% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £72.90
90th Percentile - £78.20 £75.66
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +13.98% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

SANS is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,662 13,994 15,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 27.73% 21.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,158 9,370 10,062
10th Percentile £300 £330 £318
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 986 748 694
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.15 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.13 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.40 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.66% +39.73% -3.75%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.25 £55.96
90th Percentile £76.12 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.62
% change year-on-year -25.93% +29.75% +6.94%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SANS in England

SANS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SANS in England

SANS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SANS in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SANS in England

SANS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SANS in England.

Hourly rate trend for SANS in England

SANS
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 SANS within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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 East +26 31 - - 5
South West +25 28 £500 - 2
London +90 27 £750 - 9
SANS
UK

SANS
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.16%) Apache
1 1 (1.16%) Confluence
1 1 (1.16%) IIS
1 1 (1.16%) WebLogic
1 1 (1.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 34 (39.53%) IaaS
1 34 (39.53%) SaaS
2 31 (36.05%) PaaS
3 5 (5.81%) AWS
3 5 (5.81%) Azure
4 2 (2.33%) GCP
4 2 (2.33%) GitHub
5 1 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (36.05%) 5G
1 31 (36.05%) Broadband
2 6 (6.98%) SAN
3 4 (4.65%) Firewall
4 3 (3.49%) Network Security
4 3 (3.49%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.33%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (2.33%) DHCP
5 2 (2.33%) DNS
6 1 (1.16%) FTP
6 1 (1.16%) HTTP
6 1 (1.16%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.16%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.16%) VLAN
6 1 (1.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.33%) MySQL
1 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.16%) CouchDB
2 1 (1.16%) DB2
2 1 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.16%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.16%) Redis
2 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Git
1 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.16%) AppScan
2 1 (1.16%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.16%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.16%) Darcs
2 1 (1.16%) GitLab
2 1 (1.16%) Jaeger
2 1 (1.16%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) Mercurial
2 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.16%) Subversion
2 1 (1.16%) Travis CI
General
1 31 (36.05%) Law
1 31 (36.05%) Organisational Skills
2 18 (20.93%) Finance
3 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (3.49%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.49%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.16%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (1.16%) Police
4 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (36.05%) Penetration Tester
1 31 (36.05%) Security Penetration Tester
1 31 (36.05%) Security Specialist
1 31 (36.05%) Security Tester
1 31 (36.05%) Tester
1 31 (36.05%) Testing Specialist
2 21 (24.42%) Architect
3 20 (23.26%) Security Architect
4 18 (20.93%) Analyst
4 18 (20.93%) SOC Analyst
5 10 (11.63%) SOC Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) CISSP Architect
6 6 (6.98%) Domain Architect
6 6 (6.98%) Enterprise Architect
6 6 (6.98%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
6 6 (6.98%) Enterprise Security Architect
7 5 (5.81%) Senior
7 5 (5.81%) Senior Architect
7 5 (5.81%) Senior Security Architect
8 3 (3.49%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (37.21%) Web Services
2 2 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.33%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.16%) .NET
3 1 (1.16%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.16%) CSS
3 1 (1.16%) EJB
3 1 (1.16%) HTML
3 1 (1.16%) J2EE
3 1 (1.16%) JSP
3 1 (1.16%) LDAP
3 1 (1.16%) React
3 1 (1.16%) REST
3 1 (1.16%) Servlets
3 1 (1.16%) Svelte
3 1 (1.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (37.21%) Mobile App
2 24 (27.91%) CSOC
3 23 (26.74%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (10.47%) Management Information System
5 7 (8.14%) PKI
5 7 (8.14%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.33%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.16%) CBDC
7 1 (1.16%) Digital Currency
7 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.30%) Windows
2 2 (2.33%) Linux
3 1 (1.16%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (79.07%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (38.37%) Application Security
2 33 (38.37%) OWASP
3 32 (37.21%) Penetration Testing
3 32 (37.21%) Security Testing
3 32 (37.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (36.05%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 31 (36.05%) SIEM
5 28 (32.56%) Time Management
6 27 (31.40%) Use Case
7 26 (30.23%) Analytics
7 26 (30.23%) Incident Response
8 25 (29.07%) Security Operations
9 22 (25.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (22.09%) Risk Management
10 19 (22.09%) Security Architecture
11 15 (17.44%) Enterprise Architecture
12 10 (11.63%) Cloud Security
13 9 (10.47%) Agile
14 7 (8.14%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.81%) Python
2 3 (3.49%) Bash
2 3 (3.49%) SQL
3 2 (2.33%) Java
4 1 (1.16%) C
4 1 (1.16%) C#
4 1 (1.16%) C++
4 1 (1.16%) Go
4 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.16%) Perl
4 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.16%) Rust
4 1 (1.16%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 59 (68.60%) Security Cleared
2 39 (45.35%) GIAC
3 33 (38.37%) CREST Certified
4 32 (37.21%) GPEN
4 32 (37.21%) OSCP
5 28 (32.56%) Degree
6 24 (27.91%) CISSP
6 24 (27.91%) DV Cleared
7 15 (17.44%) CISM
8 14 (16.28%) CISA
9 13 (15.12%) CRISC
10 9 (10.47%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (9.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (8.14%) CCSK
13 5 (5.81%) CEH
14 4 (4.65%) FFIEC
14 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
15 2 (2.33%) CCSP
15 2 (2.33%) RHCE
16 1 (1.16%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (38.37%) GDPR
2 31 (36.05%) NCSC
2 31 (36.05%) PCI DSS
3 8 (9.30%) NIST
4 7 (8.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (8.14%) NIST 800
5 4 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.16%) GRC
6 1 (1.16%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.33%) Ansible
1 2 (2.33%) Grafana
1 2 (2.33%) Host Intrusion Detection System
1 2 (2.33%) Progress Chef
1 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (2.33%) Puppet
1 2 (2.33%) Terraform
2 1 (1.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (1.16%) CSIRT
2 1 (1.16%) Graylog
2 1 (1.16%) HP Fortify
2 1 (1.16%) Kibana
2 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.16%) logstash
2 1 (1.16%) Nagios
2 1 (1.16%) Nessus
2 1 (1.16%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 31 (36.05%) Virgin Media
2 3 (3.49%) Cisco
2 3 (3.49%) Splunk
3 2 (2.33%) AlienVault
3 2 (2.33%) ArcSight
3 2 (2.33%) Carbon Black
3 2 (2.33%) LogRhythm
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.33%) Oracle
3 2 (2.33%) Symantec
4 1 (1.16%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.16%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.16%) Google
4 1 (1.16%) Veracode