Sophos Contracts 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 with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sophos over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 213 240
Rank change year-on-year +43 +27 -53
Contract jobs citing Sophos 16 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.10% 0.084%
As % of the Vendors category 0.78% 0.26% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 3
10th Percentile - £179 £152
25th Percentile £375 £193 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £223 £170
Median % change year-on-year +79.78% +30.88% +17.24%
75th Percentile £601 £258 £240
90th Percentile £668 £276 £276
England median daily rate £400 £350 £375
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -24.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £16.40 - -
25th Percentile £16.63 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - -
75th Percentile £19.13 £19.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £19.20 £19.15 £19.75
England median hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +5.71% -4.76%

All Vendors
North of England

Sophos is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,055 2,333 2,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 42.96% 39.88% 37.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,212 1,591 1,831
10th Percentile £250 £238 £173
25th Percentile £390 £400 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £644
England median daily rate £518 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.63% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 70 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £14.23 £10.54
25th Percentile £12.53 £19.02 £14.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £31.25 £17.91
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% +74.53% -10.48%
75th Percentile £20.95 £47.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £46.15 £53.66 £46.11
England median hourly rate £22.50 £39.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -42.31% +85.71% -4.55%

Sophos
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Sophos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Sophos in the North of England

Sophos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sophos in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Sophos in the North of England

Sophos
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sophos in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sophos in the North of England

Sophos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sophos in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Sophos in the North of England

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 25 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
North West +26 15 £400 +79.78% 7
Yorkshire +27 1 £375 - 3
Sophos
England

Sophos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (50.00%) Mimecast
3 7 (43.75%) AWS
4 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
5 4 (25.00%) GCP
6 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Stack
7 1 (6.25%) IaaS
7 1 (6.25%) OCI
7 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
7 1 (6.25%) PaaS
7 1 (6.25%) SaaS
7 1 (6.25%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) LAN
3 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
3 1 (6.25%) Skype
3 1 (6.25%) WAN
3 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Hudson
General
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Back Office
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Lead
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Service Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Technologist
6 1 (6.25%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (6.25%) Head of Infrastructure
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
6 1 (6.25%) SOC Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Team Leader
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Client/Server
1 1 (6.25%) LIMS
1 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
1 1 (6.25%) PKI
1 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (25.00%) Open Source
3 3 (18.75%) Contingency Planning
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
3 3 (18.75%) Security Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Service Design
4 2 (12.50%) SIEM
4 2 (12.50%) SOAR
4 2 (12.50%) Threat Detection
4 2 (12.50%) Workflow
5 1 (6.25%) Database Migration
5 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) MCP
2 2 (12.50%) MCSE
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (12.50%) MOS
3 1 (6.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (18.75%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.25%) vSphere
3 1 (6.25%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (18.75%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Rapid7
3 3 (18.75%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco
4 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.25%) Aruba
5 1 (6.25%) Citrix
5 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.25%) HP
5 1 (6.25%) NetApp
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle
5 1 (6.25%) Proofpoint