Forcepoint Contract Job Trends in Essex

Forcepoint
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring knowledge or experience of Forcepoint products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Forcepoint over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, 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 Forcepoint, LLC (formerly Websense).

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Forcepoint 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.58% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
East of England median daily rate £600 - -

All Vendors
Essex

Forcepoint 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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 120 44 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 34.58% 38.26% 29.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 28 23
10th Percentile £335 £218 £178
25th Percentile £350 £231 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +21.33% +7.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £537 £467 £550
90th Percentile £600 £515 £575
East of England median daily rate £505 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 7 8
10th Percentile £14.39 £18.54 £15.91
25th Percentile £16.50 £21.13 £19.00
Median hourly rate £18.25 £37.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.33% -13.79% -22.79%
75th Percentile £25.26 £41.73 £64.25
90th Percentile £55.25 £55.92 £66.95
East of England median hourly rate £32.00 £21.89 £16.23
% change year-on-year +46.19% +34.87% -32.86%

Forcepoint
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Forcepoint job vacancy trend in Essex

Forcepoint
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Forcepoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Forcepoint

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Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Forcepoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Forcepoint

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Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Forcepoint within the Essex region over the 6 months to 23 August 2026. 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
Harlow - 2 £475 -
Forcepoint
East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) NGFW
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) BYOD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Deep Packet Inspection
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CWNA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto