Situational Awareness Contracts in England

Situational Awareness
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Situational Awareness skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Situational Awareness over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 529 616
Rank change year-on-year +68 +87 +82
Contract jobs citing Situational Awareness 17 12 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.033% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.038% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 18
10th Percentile £358 £361 £446
25th Percentile £363 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £540 £563
Median % change year-on-year -25.56% -4.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £700
90th Percentile £654 £928 £746
UK median daily rate £402 £540 £563
% change year-on-year -25.56% -4.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £84.80
UK median hourly rate - - £71.92
% change year-on-year - - +25.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Situational Awareness 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 22,009 31,610 44,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.47% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,381 20,692 31,129
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £446
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 £764
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.62% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 927 2,241 1,561
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.87 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.17 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% -2.25% +49.36%
75th Percentile £62.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.17 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.84% +1.39% +40.19%

Situational Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Situational Awareness in England

Situational Awareness
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Situational Awareness in England

Situational Awareness
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Situational Awareness in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Situational Awareness in England

Situational Awareness
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Situational Awareness in England

Situational Awareness
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 Situational Awareness within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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 East - 8 £650 - 14
North of England +25 6 £384 -19.16% 8
North West - 6 £384 - 5
London +48 1 £358 -45.55% 16
East Midlands - 1 £358 -
Midlands - 1 £358 -
Situational Awareness
UK

Situational Awareness
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 7 (41.18%) WebLogic
2 5 (29.41%) JBoss
2 5 (29.41%) Tomcat
2 5 (29.41%) WebSphere
3 2 (11.76%) Apache Solr
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) DB2
2 1 (5.88%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Bitbucket
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) Maven
2 2 (11.76%) Selenium
2 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Military
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Scrum Master
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Agile Scrum Master
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Development Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Head of Design
4 1 (5.88%) Head of Security
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Scrum Master
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Training Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) REST
1 7 (41.18%) SOAP
1 7 (41.18%) Web Services
2 5 (29.41%) RAML
2 5 (29.41%) WSDL
3 3 (17.65%) EJB
3 3 (17.65%) J2EE
3 3 (17.65%) JSP
3 3 (17.65%) Servlets
3 3 (17.65%) Spring
3 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
4 2 (11.76%) Ajax
4 2 (11.76%) JAX-RS
4 2 (11.76%) JAX-WS
4 2 (11.76%) JSON
4 2 (11.76%) React
4 2 (11.76%) XML
4 2 (11.76%) XSD
4 2 (11.76%) XSL
4 2 (11.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Product Ownership
2 5 (29.41%) Private Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.88%) SCADA
4 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Agile
2 9 (52.94%) Scrum
2 9 (52.94%) SDLC
3 8 (47.06%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 8 (47.06%) Budget Control
3 8 (47.06%) Conflict Resolution
3 8 (47.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (47.06%) Servant Leadership
4 7 (41.18%) Backlog Management
5 5 (29.41%) API Development
6 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (11.76%) BPEL
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) OSINT
7 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
7 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
7 2 (11.76%) SIEM
7 2 (11.76%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.76%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) ArcSight
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft