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 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 367 381
Rank change year-on-year +16 +14 +136
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Darktrace 18 13 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.072% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% 0.17% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 40
10th Percentile £344 £407 £260
25th Percentile £400 £535 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +6.12% +28.95%
75th Percentile £557 - £631
90th Percentile £779 £695 £650
UK median daily rate £425 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -32.00% +2.04% +6.52%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,337 7,858 10,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.77% 43.27% 46.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,479 4,701 6,477
10th Percentile £217 £213 £206
25th Percentile £361 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 666 499
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.50 £14.63
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.10 £17.77
Median hourly rate £21.28 £25.80 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% -25.22% +74.15%
75th Percentile £43.57 £61.60 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £73.87
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.86 £40.77
% change year-on-year -9.73% -31.67% +85.32%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Darktrace
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Darktrace in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Darktrace in the UK excluding London

Darktrace
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 8 £763 - 1
North of England -22 6 £413 -23.61%
North West -8 5 £400 -25.93%
East of England -3 3 - - 5
West Midlands -9 1 - -
Midlands -13 1 - - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £473 -
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 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (16.67%) CMS
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.11%) Google Workspace
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) Firewall
2 6 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (5.56%) FTP
3 1 (5.56%) HTTP
3 1 (5.56%) SMTP
3 1 (5.56%) SSL
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Lead
2 5 (27.78%) Security Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Forensic Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Junior
5 1 (5.56%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Security Advisor
5 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) SIEM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (33.33%) JBoss Seam
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
2 1 (5.56%) LDAP
2 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Management Information System
2 5 (27.78%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (11.11%) IoT
5 1 (5.56%) CESG
5 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
5 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Mac OS
3 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (50.00%) Information Security
3 8 (44.44%) Incident Response
4 7 (38.89%) Security Architecture
4 7 (38.89%) Security Operations
5 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 6 (33.33%) DevOps
5 6 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
5 6 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 6 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 5 (27.78%) Fintech
7 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
7 4 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
7 4 (22.22%) Server Hardening
8 2 (11.11%) Cyber Resilience
8 2 (11.11%) Data Management
8 2 (11.11%) Document Management
8 2 (11.11%) SIEM
8 2 (11.11%) SOAR
8 2 (11.11%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Bash
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (22.22%) Azure Certification
4 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 3 (16.67%) CISSP
5 3 (16.67%) GCIH
6 2 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (11.11%) CCSP
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (11.11%) CISM
6 2 (11.11%) GCFA
6 2 (11.11%) GCFE
6 2 (11.11%) GREM
7 1 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) EnCase
1 2 (11.11%) FTK
2 1 (5.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (22.22%) Splunk
2 4 (22.22%) Zscaler
3 3 (16.67%) FireEye
3 3 (16.67%) LogRhythm
3 3 (16.67%) Varonis
4 1 (5.56%) Cribl.io
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) IronPort
4 1 (5.56%) Qualys
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Symantec