Sophos Contracts in England

Sophos
UK > England

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 505 598
Rank change year-on-year +30 +93 +123
Contract jobs citing Sophos 10 37 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.099% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.086% 0.24% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 28 43
10th Percentile £272 £255 £158
25th Percentile £300 £363 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £413 £350
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +17.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £581 £450
90th Percentile £599 £675 £488
UK median daily rate £338 £400 £350
% change year-on-year -15.63% +14.29% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £16.55 -
25th Percentile - £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £18.50 £18.50
75th Percentile - £19.60 £20.00
90th Percentile - £19.81 £42.50
UK median hourly rate - £18.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year - - +5.71%

All Vendors
England

Sophos 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 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Sophos
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Sophos in England

Sophos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Sophos in England

Sophos
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sophos in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sophos in England

Sophos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Sophos in England

Sophos
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 Sophos 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
London +39 5 £575 +46.03% 14
South West +47 2 £300 -29.41% 5
Midlands +19 2 - - 4
West Midlands +11 2 - - 2
South East +44 1 £375 - 15
Sophos
UK

Sophos
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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DHCP
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (30.00%) VLAN
3 2 (20.00%) HTTP
3 2 (20.00%) Network Security
3 2 (20.00%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (20.00%) SAN
3 2 (20.00%) SSL
3 2 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (10.00%) LAN
4 1 (10.00%) WAN
4 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) Maven
1 2 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Operations Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LDAP
1 2 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
1 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) CentOS
2 2 (20.00%) Debian
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Patch Management
2 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (40.00%) Information Security
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Data Security
3 3 (30.00%) Information Security Management
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Security Management
3 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
3 3 (30.00%) Threat Detection
3 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (20.00%) Capacity Management
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Log Aggregation
4 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (20.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) CTC Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 3 (30.00%) WSUS
3 2 (20.00%) Nessus
3 2 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Rapid7
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (10.00%) Apple
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Qualys