Adaptive Security Contracts in the UK excluding London

Adaptive Security
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Adaptive Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Adaptive Security over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 396 461
Rank change year-on-year +63 +65 +49
Contract jobs citing Adaptive Security 3 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.014% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.017% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £569 - -
25th Percentile £586 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £500 £315
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% +58.73% -31.89%
75th Percentile £623 £525 -
90th Percentile £627 - -
UK median daily rate £630 £550 £440
% change year-on-year +14.55% +25.00% -4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £63.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Adaptive Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Adaptive Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Adaptive Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Adaptive Security in the UK excluding London

Adaptive Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Adaptive Security in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Adaptive Security in the UK excluding London

Adaptive Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Adaptive Security in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Adaptive Security in the UK excluding London

Adaptive Security
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adaptive Security within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +46 3 £615 +23.00%
Adaptive Security
UK

Adaptive Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) MPLS
1 3 (100.00%) NGFW
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Zachman Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) MCSE
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (66.67%) NCSC
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (100.00%) VMware