AlgoSec Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

AlgoSec
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London citing AlgoSec products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AlgoSec over the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2026, 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 AlgoSec.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	472	-	356
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	+52
Contract jobs citing AlgoSec	9	0	3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London	0.032%	-	0.018%
As % of the Vendors category	0.079%	-	0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted	4	0	3
10^th Percentile	£421	-	-
25^th Percentile	£434	-	£500
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£451	-	£525
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	+5.00%
75^th Percentile	£467	-	£550
90^th Percentile	£487	-	-
UK median daily rate	£478	£450	£525
% change year-on-year	+6.22%	-14.29%	+5.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

AlgoSec 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 citing vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing vendor products and services	11,458	7,971	7,512
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London	40.66%	48.04%	44.74%
Number of daily rates quoted	6,466	5,034	4,332
10^th Percentile	£274	£220	£220
25^th Percentile	£403	£366	£388
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£492	£500
Median % change year-on-year	+1.63%	-1.60%	-
75^th Percentile	£600	£581	£600
90^th Percentile	£675	£658	£688
UK median daily rate	£515	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	+3.00%	-4.76%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	1,349	628	447
10^th Percentile	£13.50	£14.75	£15.00
25^th Percentile	£15.38	£17.23	£15.62
Median hourly rate	£22.50	£22.16	£30.00
Median % change year-on-year	+1.52%	-26.13%	-27.71%
75^th Percentile	£55.25	£37.69	£63.75
90^th Percentile	£75.00	£69.65	£70.00
UK median hourly rate	£24.00	£25.00	£32.50
% change year-on-year	-4.00%	-23.08%	-25.71%

AlgoSec Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AlgoSec relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

AlgoSec Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AlgoSec.

AlgoSec 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 AlgoSec within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
North West	-	9	£451	-	2
North of England	-	9	£451	-	2
AlgoSec UK

AlgoSec Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing AlgoSec also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region citing AlgoSec.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Firewall	100.0%	9
1	Network Security	100.0%	9
3	CCNP	77.8%	7
3	Cisco Certification	77.8%	7
3	CISSP	77.8%	7
6	Zero Trust	66.7%	6
7	Risk Assessment	55.6%	5
7	Security Operations	55.6%	5
7	Stakeholder Management	55.6%	5
10	Compliance Management	44.4%	4
10	ITIL	44.4%	4
10	Network Segmentation	44.4%	4
10	Risk Analysis	44.4%	4
10	Security Management	44.4%	4
10	Service Management	44.4%	4
16	Ansible	33.3%	3
16	AWS	33.3%	3
16	Bash	33.3%	3
16	CCIE	33.3%	3
16	CCIE Security	33.3%	3
16	CCSP	33.3%	3
16	Change Management	33.3%	3
16	CheckPoint	33.3%	3
16	Configuration Management	33.3%	3
16	Infrastructure Engineering	33.3%	3
16	ISO/IEC 27001	33.3%	3
16	Migration	33.3%	3
16	NIST	33.3%	3
16	Operational Resilience	33.3%	3
16	Palo Alto	33.3%	3

AlgoSec Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Vendors

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CheckPoint	33.3%	3
1	Palo Alto	33.3%	3
3	Cisco	22.2%	2
3	Fortinet	22.2%	2
5	Blue Coat	11.1%	1
5	Microsoft	11.1%	1
5	Symantec	11.1%	1