Carbon Black Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Carbon Black
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 Carbon Black products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Carbon Black over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, 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 Carbon Black.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 407 353 410
Rank change year-on-year -54 +57 +85
Contract jobs citing Carbon Black 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.007% 0.005%
As % of the Vendors category 0.023% 0.014% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £336 £650 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 £700 £488
Median % change year-on-year -49.82% +43.59% -2.50%
75th Percentile £367 £750 £494
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 £700 £800
% change year-on-year -17.86% -12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.62 - -
Median hourly rate £16.71 - -
75th Percentile £17.79 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £16.71 - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Carbon Black 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 8,515 6,914 9,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.94% 45.97% 47.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,516 4,135 5,855
10th Percentile £220 £213 £210
25th Percentile £375 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +0.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 671 378 523
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.22 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.41 £16.24 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% -39.72% +100.00%
75th Percentile £43.92 £60.94 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £75.08
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% -35.56% +75.03%

Carbon Black
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Carbon Black job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Carbon Black
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Carbon Black
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 Carbon Black within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 December 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 -13 2 £351 -49.82% 1
Carbon Black
UK

Carbon Black
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Blue Team
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (50.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (50.00%) GCFA
1 1 (50.00%) GCIA
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Apple
2 1 (50.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (50.00%) Datto
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Toshiba
2 1 (50.00%) Trend Micro