McAfee Contract Job Trends in the South East

McAfee
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring knowledge or experience of McAfee products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited McAfee 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 McAfee (formerly Intel Security).

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 145 189
Rank change year-on-year -42 +44 -14
Contract jobs citing McAfee 5 24 21
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.64% 0.42%
As % of the Vendors category 0.22% 1.27% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 5
10th Percentile - £433 -
25th Percentile £273 £469 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £274 £525 £135
Median % change year-on-year -47.90% +288.89% -70.00%
75th Percentile £337 £563 £244
90th Percentile £450 £610 £413
England median daily rate £450 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -14.29% +9.38% -12.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.72 - £40.00
75th Percentile £52.58 - £45.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.72 - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +17.68%

All Vendors
South East

McAfee 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,242 1,891 2,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 51.32% 50.39% 52.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,585 1,251 1,671
10th Percentile £221 £239 £205
25th Percentile £401 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.34% +2.60%
75th Percentile £600 £633 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £678
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 54 125
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.94 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.31 £24.18 £24.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.08 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.67% -32.58% +129.17%
75th Percentile £64.38 £63.45 £66.44
90th Percentile £89.63 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

McAfee
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing McAfee relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

McAfee job vacancy trend in the South East

McAfee
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing McAfee.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing McAfee

McAfee
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing McAfee in the South East over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for McAfee in the South East

McAfee
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing McAfee.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing McAfee

McAfee
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing McAfee within the South East 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
Buckinghamshire +2 3 £274 -50.27%
Thames Valley -27 3 £274 -47.90% 1
Surrey -4 1 £500 -9.09%
Hampshire -26 1 - - 4
McAfee
England

McAfee
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) SNMP
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Desktop Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Desktop Support
1 3 (60.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Video Conferencing
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) Security Patching
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (60.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (20.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (20.00%) SCOM
2 1 (20.00%) WhatsUp Gold
2 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Acronis
3 1 (20.00%) Blue Coat
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec