CASB Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring CASB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 98 -
Rank change year-on-year -54 - -
Contract jobs citing CASB 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.033% 0.13% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.27% 1.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £525 £450 -
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

CASB falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 372 182 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.40% 12.26% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 128 229
10th Percentile £306 £256 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £574 £575 £608
90th Percentile £635 £663 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 6
10th Percentile £31.25 - £19.81
25th Percentile £33.24 - £25.22
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £38.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -43.01%
75th Percentile £76.00 - £48.75
90th Percentile £82.00 - £56.88
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £23.99 £43.00
% change year-on-year +150.16% -44.22% -26.81%

CASB
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CASB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

CASB job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

CASB
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CASB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CASB

CASB
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CASB within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £525 -
CASB
South East

CASB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Behavioural Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) CCDA
1 1 (100.00%) CCDP
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCIP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler