SANS Contract Job Trends in the North of England

SANS Institute
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for SANS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SANS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.017% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.065% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £537 £688 £675
% change year-on-year -21.89% +1.85% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

SANS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,533 1,051 1,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.73% 32.96% 26.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,045 639 691
10th Percentile £313 £230 £270
25th Percentile £400 £365 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £625
90th Percentile £675 £665 £720
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 54 166
10th Percentile £21.97 £17.65 £10.95
25th Percentile £35.00 £22.72 £12.89
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +102.37% -57.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.57 £41.76
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.66 £50.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £50.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -21.00% +29.03% -25.48%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SANS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

SANS job vacancy trend in the North of England

SANS
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SANS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SANS

SANS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SANS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 April 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
Yorkshire - 1 £675 -
SANS
England

SANS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) UML
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BiZZdesign