SANS Contracts in the South East

SANS Institute
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for SANS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 - 180
Rank change year-on-year - - +85
Contract jobs citing SANS 4 0 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% - 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.28% - 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 27
10th Percentile £480 - £653
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.27%
75th Percentile £703 - £838
90th Percentile £731 - -
England median daily rate £625 £500 £700
% change year-on-year +25.00% -28.57% +7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,423 2,239 2,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.68% 44.91% 37.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 930 1,392 1,300
10th Percentile £250 £350 £300
25th Percentile £413 £445 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £621
90th Percentile £664 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 184 123
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.86 £20.05
25th Percentile £20.66 £33.10 £49.87
Median hourly rate £28.00 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.18% -4.42% +33.33%
75th Percentile £68.79 £70.39 £73.05
90th Percentile £82.00 £87.46 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% -16.04% +24.84%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SANS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SANS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SANS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SANS in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SANS in the South East over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SANS in the South East

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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 SANS within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Berkshire - 3 £550 - 1
Thames Valley - 3 £550 - 1
Kent - 1 £675 -
SANS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) IT Security Officer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Officer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) SOAR
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
3 1 (25.00%) Blue Team
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) CEH
2 2 (50.00%) CISM
2 2 (50.00%) GIAC
2 2 (50.00%) OSCP
3 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (25.00%) CCSK
3 1 (25.00%) CCSP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) GCED
3 1 (25.00%) GCIA
3 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (25.00%) Forcepoint
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk