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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 375 450
Rank change year-on-year +19 +75 +133
Contract jobs citing Sophos 5 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.038% 0.031% 0.049%
As % of the Vendors category 0.082% 0.072% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile - £253 £204
25th Percentile £145 £325 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £338
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +3.70% -43.75%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £356
90th Percentile £580 - £383
England median daily rate £538 £550 £350
% change year-on-year -2.27% +57.14% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £31.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +77.14% -0.34%

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 6,106 6,972 9,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.11% 43.35% 40.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,948 4,532 6,401
10th Percentile £325 £313 £319
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -2.65%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 78 113
10th Percentile £16.50 £18.13 £16.67
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% -17.88% +50.00%
75th Percentile £38.75 £64.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £79.13 £69.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +77.75%

Sophos
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Sophos 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Electronics
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 8
1 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (40.00%) Data Security
1 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security
1 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (40.00%) Server Management
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
1 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
1 2 (40.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) McAfee ePO
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
1 2 (40.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe
1 2 (40.00%) Autodesk
1 2 (40.00%) Barracuda Networks
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix
1 2 (40.00%) Dell
1 2 (40.00%) Draytek
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) HP
1 2 (40.00%) Kaspersky
1 2 (40.00%) McAfee
1 2 (40.00%) NETGEAR
1 2 (40.00%) Sage
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
1 2 (40.00%) Symantec
1 2 (40.00%) Toshiba
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
1 2 (40.00%) WatchGuard
1 2 (40.00%) Webroot
1 2 (40.00%) Wyse