Becrypt Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Becrypt
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Becrypt products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Becrypt over the 6 months leading up to 27 April 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 Becrypt Limited.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Becrypt 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.013% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.031% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £512 - -
25th Percentile £530 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
75th Percentile £655 - -
90th Percentile £712 - -
UK median daily rate £543 - £213

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Becrypt 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 9,698 6,212 8,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 40.83% 48.72% 42.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,239 3,969 5,344
10th Percentile £273 £217 £206
25th Percentile £400 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 831 417 921
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.84 £11.79
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.44 £14.16
Median hourly rate £27.00 £24.19 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.62% +12.51% -45.64%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £59.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Becrypt job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Becrypt in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Becrypt in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Becrypt.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Becrypt

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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 Becrypt within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
South East - 3 £560 -
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UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) CATAPAN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Network Design
3 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) NIST 800
3 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) UAG
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds