Boundary Protection Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Boundary Protection
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Boundary Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 338 392
Rank change year-on-year -67 +54 +95
Contract jobs citing Boundary Protection 2 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.021% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.024% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 12
10th Percentile - - £533
25th Percentile - £663 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile - £688 -
90th Percentile - - £790
UK median daily rate £500 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -25.93% -3.57% +21.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Boundary Protection 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 15,539 12,361 16,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.20% 87.57% 87.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,525 7,228 10,715
10th Percentile £220 £240 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,704 707 1,242
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.66
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.65% -32.42% +55.17%
75th Percentile £54.06 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

Boundary Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Boundary Protection job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Boundary Protection
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Boundary Protection
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 Boundary Protection within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 January 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 -22 2 - -
East of England - 2 - - 1
South West - 2 - -
Boundary Protection
UK

Boundary Protection
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 (100.00%) DWDM
1 2 (100.00%) SDH
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ArchiMate
1 2 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 2 (100.00%) BPMN
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Nokia
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto