SANS Contracts in London

SANS Institute
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SANS qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 457 565
Rank change year-on-year +90 +108 -133
Contract jobs citing SANS 27 44 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.63% 0.76% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 32 33
10th Percentile £663 £610 £475
25th Percentile £675 £700 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £688
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +3.77%
75th Percentile £825 £766 £738
90th Percentile - £838 £769
England median daily rate £675 £700 £666
% change year-on-year -3.57% +5.07% +4.10%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,288 5,821 6,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.21% 21.53% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,924 4,558
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £574 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +4.32% +7.32%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 80 150
10th Percentile £14.49 £19.94 £22.85
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.54% +1.69% +21.92%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £69.75 £82.55 £65.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.66% +39.73% -3.75%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SANS in London

SANS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SANS in London

SANS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SANS in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SANS in London

SANS
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 SANS within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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
East London -7 6 £770 +2.67%
Central London +36 3 £698 +1.45% 3
SANS
England

SANS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) IIS
1 1 (3.70%) WebLogic
1 1 (3.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) AWS
1 3 (11.11%) Azure
1 3 (11.11%) IaaS
1 3 (11.11%) SaaS
2 2 (7.41%) GCP
2 2 (7.41%) GitHub
3 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) SAN
2 4 (14.81%) Firewall
3 3 (11.11%) Network Security
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (7.41%) DHCP
4 2 (7.41%) DNS
4 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.70%) FTP
5 1 (3.70%) HTTP
5 1 (3.70%) tcpdump
5 1 (3.70%) VLAN
5 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) MySQL
1 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.70%) CouchDB
2 1 (3.70%) DB2
2 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.70%) Redis
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) AppScan
2 1 (3.70%) Burp Suite
2 1 (3.70%) CircleCI
2 1 (3.70%) Darcs
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
2 1 (3.70%) Jaeger
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Mercurial
2 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.70%) Subversion
2 1 (3.70%) Travis CI
General
1 17 (62.96%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (77.78%) Architect
2 20 (74.07%) Security Architect
3 6 (22.22%) CISSP Architect
3 6 (22.22%) Domain Architect
3 6 (22.22%) Enterprise Architect
3 6 (22.22%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
3 6 (22.22%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Senior
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Security Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Security Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Firewall Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Network Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Full Stack Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Lead Security Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Principal Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (7.41%) Regular Expression
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.70%) CSS
2 1 (3.70%) EJB
2 1 (3.70%) HTML
2 1 (3.70%) J2EE
2 1 (3.70%) JSP
2 1 (3.70%) LDAP
2 1 (3.70%) React
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) Servlets
2 1 (3.70%) Svelte
2 1 (3.70%) Web Services
2 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 7 (25.93%) PKI
2 7 (25.93%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Cyberattack
4 1 (3.70%) CBDC
4 1 (3.70%) Digital Currency
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) Risk Management
1 19 (70.37%) Security Architecture
2 15 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
3 11 (40.74%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (37.04%) Cloud Security
5 9 (33.33%) Agile
6 7 (25.93%) Architectural Design
6 7 (25.93%) SABSA
6 7 (25.93%) Threat Modelling
7 6 (22.22%) Information Security
7 6 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
7 6 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (22.22%) TOGAF
8 4 (14.81%) Data Loss Prevention
8 4 (14.81%) SIEM
8 4 (14.81%) Time Management
9 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 2 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (7.41%) OWASP
10 2 (7.41%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) Bash
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) C
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) C++
4 1 (3.70%) Go
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) Perl
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (88.89%) CISSP
2 15 (55.56%) CISM
3 14 (51.85%) CISA
4 13 (48.15%) CRISC
5 9 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (29.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 8 (29.63%) GIAC
7 7 (25.93%) CCSK
8 4 (14.81%) Degree
8 4 (14.81%) FFIEC
9 3 (11.11%) CEH
10 2 (7.41%) CCSP
10 2 (7.41%) RHCE
10 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
10 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
11 1 (3.70%) CCNA
11 1 (3.70%) CCNP
11 1 (3.70%) GCIA
11 1 (3.70%) GCIH
11 1 (3.70%) GSNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) NIST
2 7 (25.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (25.93%) NIST 800
3 4 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (7.41%) GDPR
5 1 (3.70%) GRC
5 1 (3.70%) ISO 20022
5 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Ansible
1 2 (7.41%) Grafana
1 2 (7.41%) Host Intrusion Detection System
1 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
1 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
1 2 (7.41%) Puppet
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (3.70%) CSIRT
2 1 (3.70%) Graylog
2 1 (3.70%) HP Fortify
2 1 (3.70%) Kibana
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) logstash
2 1 (3.70%) Nagios
2 1 (3.70%) Nessus
2 1 (3.70%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Cisco
2 2 (7.41%) AlienVault
2 2 (7.41%) ArcSight
2 2 (7.41%) Carbon Black
2 2 (7.41%) LogRhythm
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) Splunk
2 2 (7.41%) Symantec
3 1 (3.70%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Veracode