Sophos Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Sophos
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 209 155 179
Rank change year-on-year -54 +24 +56
Contract jobs citing Sophos 2 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.042% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.090% 0.43% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £131 £281 £415
25th Percentile £148 £434 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% -23.08% +293.94%
75th Percentile £203 £575 £725
90th Percentile £219 £600 £755
England median daily rate £538 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +16.22% -2.63% +35.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £29.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £31.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - +72.22% -
75th Percentile - £32.50 £19.31
90th Percentile - - £19.43
England median hourly rate - £31.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year - +72.22% +2.51%

All Vendors
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,221 1,647 2,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 46.99% 45.85% 48.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,450 932 1,432
10th Percentile £250 £250 £230
25th Percentile £363 £398 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £578 £575 £587
90th Percentile £678 £675 £673
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 70 100
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.22 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.83 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -7.14% +62.79%
75th Percentile £56.69 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.95 £81.11 £60.00
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 the North of England

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

Sophos job vacancy trend in the North of England

Sophos
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Sophos
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Sophos.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Sophos

Sophos
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 Sophos within the North of England 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
North West -32 1 £120 -76.00% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £230 -
Sophos
England

Sophos
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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Mimecast
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) WatchGuard