CASB Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring CASB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CASB over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 402 423
Rank change year-on-year +75 +21 +77
Contract jobs citing CASB 7 1 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.005% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% 0.043% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 26
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £456 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £745 - £716
90th Percentile £788 - £781
UK median daily rate £588 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -9.62% +18.18% -6.38%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

CASB falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,890 2,346 3,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.79% 11.35% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,324 1,702 2,640
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £393 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £623
90th Percentile £659 £652 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 76 137
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.51 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £34.25 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.01% -21.71% +118.75%
75th Percentile £49.23 £49.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.61 £70.63 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year -2.75% -52.61% +156.81%

CASB
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for CASB in the UK excluding London

CASB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for CASB in the UK excluding London

CASB
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CASB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CASB in the UK excluding London

CASB
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 CASB within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Midlands - 3 £775 -
West Midlands - 3 £775 -
South East - 2 £450 - 8
Scotland +13 1 £450 -
North of England - 1 £475 - 7
North West - 1 £475 - 6
CASB
UK

CASB
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 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
3 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Security Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (14.29%) Cyberattack
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Security
2 4 (57.14%) Data Loss Prevention
2 4 (57.14%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (57.14%) SIEM
3 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
3 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
3 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
3 3 (42.86%) Information Security
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (28.57%) Contract Management
4 2 (28.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Security Hardening
4 2 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Master's Degree
2 2 (28.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (28.57%) CCSP
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CCSK
3 1 (14.29%) CEH
3 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) GIAC
3 1 (14.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) TOWER Software
2 1 (14.29%) Aruba
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 1 (14.29%) Forcepoint
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Zscaler