CASB Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring CASB skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 365 405
Rank change year-on-year +4 +40 +97
Contract jobs citing CASB 6 5 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.028% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.25% 0.22% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 15
10th Percentile £527 £501 £550
25th Percentile £596 £503 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £612 £510 £650
Median % change year-on-year +20.05% -21.54% +20.82%
75th Percentile £633 £520 £756
90th Percentile £641 £523 £803
UK median daily rate £602 £538 £625
% change year-on-year +11.95% -14.00% +8.70%

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 2,376 2,262 2,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.60% 12.73% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,599 1,589 2,025
10th Percentile £235 £246 £275
25th Percentile £380 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +2.34%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £615
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 34 119
10th Percentile £17.38 £17.09 £17.43
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -28.66% -15.01% +114.79%
75th Percentile £65.88 £54.50 £74.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.31 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.08% -30.00% +130.03%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 15 September 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 15 September 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
North West -13 3 £612 +20.00%
North of England -17 3 £612 +20.00%
Midlands - 2 £619 -
West Midlands - 2 £619 -
East of England +6 1 £475 -
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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) 1Password
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) SSL
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Data Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Development Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Security Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 4 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Log Correlation
2 3 (50.00%) Ticket Management
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
4 1 (16.67%) Cryptography
4 1 (16.67%) Data Development
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) Key Management
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Password Management
4 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
1 3 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (50.00%) MCSA
1 3 (50.00%) MCSE
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 3 (50.00%) Remedy
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
1 3 (50.00%) Tenable
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Netskope
3 1 (16.67%) Rapid7