Darktrace Contracts in the UK excluding London

Darktrace
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 Darktrace products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Darktrace over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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 Darktrace.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 371 427
Rank change year-on-year +45 +56 +77
Contract jobs citing Darktrace 10 28 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% 0.32% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 15 35
10th Percentile - £290 -
25th Percentile - £388 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 £350
Median % change year-on-year - +85.71% -28.28%
75th Percentile - - £631
90th Percentile - £700 -
UK median daily rate £675 £590 £350
% change year-on-year +14.41% +68.57% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.25 - £25.00

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Darktrace 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 6,222 8,861 10,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.74% 42.66% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 5,339 7,359
10th Percentile £215 £205 £205
25th Percentile £369 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 940 476
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.79 £14.31
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.63 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Darktrace
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Darktrace in the UK excluding London

Darktrace
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Darktrace in the UK excluding London

Darktrace
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 Darktrace within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East - 6 - - 3
East of England +17 4 - - 23
Darktrace
UK

Darktrace
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
1 6 (60.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) FTP
2 2 (20.00%) HTTP
2 2 (20.00%) SMTP
2 2 (20.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (10.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Lead
3 3 (30.00%) Security Advisor
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Junior
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (50.00%) JBoss Seam
3 2 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (40.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (20.00%) Cyberattack
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (10.00%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 6 (60.00%) Security Architecture
2 6 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 5 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 4 (40.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (20.00%) Information Security
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
6 1 (10.00%) Information Assurance
6 1 (10.00%) Risk Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
6 1 (10.00%) SIEM
6 1 (10.00%) SOAR
6 1 (10.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) FireEye
1 4 (40.00%) LogRhythm
1 4 (40.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) IronPort
2 2 (20.00%) Symantec