Proofpoint Contract Job Trends in London

Proofpoint
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 4 October 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
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 385 434
Rank change year-on-year +33 +49 +148
Contract jobs citing Proofpoint 10 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.074% 0.062% 0.023%
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% 0.14% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £416 £517 £430
25th Percentile £422 £524 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% -0.91% +46.67%
75th Percentile £488 £564 -
90th Percentile £510 £569 -
England median daily rate £450 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -19.28% +1.36% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
England median hourly rate - £23.80 -

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,256 7,023 8,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.34% 43.40% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,067 4,461 6,162
10th Percentile £325 £313 £315
25th Percentile £420 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 81 114
10th Percentile £16.50 £18.13 £16.90
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.50 £22.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -9.68% +55.00%
75th Percentile £38.75 £65.00 £58.19
90th Percentile £64.00 £80.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +82.67%

Proofpoint
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Proofpoint job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Proofpoint

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Proofpoint

Proofpoint
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Proofpoint within the London region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
West London -2 1 £500 - 4
South London - 1 £425 -
Proofpoint
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Google Workspace
4 1 (10.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DMARC
2 1 (10.00%) DKIM
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Snyk
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Exchange Migration Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (30.00%) Information Security
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) SIEM
3 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity Management
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) CISSP
2 4 (40.00%) CISM
3 2 (20.00%) CISA
4 1 (10.00%) CEH
4 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (10.00%) CRISC
4 1 (10.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (20.00%) QRadar
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) Qualys
2 2 (20.00%) Carbon Black
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (20.00%) Rapid7
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) Tanium
2 2 (20.00%) Tenable
2 2 (20.00%) Veracode
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto