Sophos Contract Job Trends in London

Sophos
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 19 December 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
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 362 402
Rank change year-on-year -9 +40 +143
Contract jobs citing Sophos 9 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.063% 0.046% 0.016%
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% 0.11% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 3
10th Percentile £396 £188 £200
25th Percentile £450 £265 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £350 £250
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% +40.00% -52.38%
75th Percentile £544 £588 £397
90th Percentile £560 £603 £485
England median daily rate £538 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +16.22% -2.63% +35.71%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,764 6,664 7,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.02% 44.23% 40.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,404 4,182 5,333
10th Percentile £341 £313 £300
25th Percentile £424 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 69 108
10th Percentile £17.69 £19.66 £16.96
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £23.50
Median hourly rate £25.47 £34.50 £37.83
Median % change year-on-year -26.17% -8.80% +47.13%
75th Percentile £41.94 £63.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £66.00 £83.10 £86.33
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

Sophos
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Sophos job vacancy trend in London

Sophos
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Sophos

Sophos
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sophos in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sophos in London

Sophos
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Sophos

Sophos
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 Sophos within the London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Central London - 1 £500 - 1
Sophos
England

Sophos
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (77.78%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) TCP/IP
2 6 (66.67%) DHCP
2 6 (66.67%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) IT Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Operations Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Management Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Information Security
1 7 (77.78%) Patch Management
1 7 (77.78%) Security Operations
1 7 (77.78%) SIEM
1 7 (77.78%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 6 (66.67%) Analytics
2 6 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (66.67%) Data Security
2 6 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 6 (66.67%) Threat Detection
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (11.11%) Budget Management
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 1 (11.11%) ITSM
4 1 (11.11%) Line Management
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (66.67%) SCCM
2 6 (66.67%) WSUS
3 1 (11.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Qualys
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
1 1 (11.11%) Varonis