ForeScout Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ForeScout
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 ForeScout products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ForeScout over the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, 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 ForeScout Technologies, Inc.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 - 398
Rank change year-on-year - - +84
Contract jobs citing ForeScout 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - 0.021%
As % of the Vendors category 0.012% - 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £438
25th Percentile - - £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £471
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.75%
75th Percentile - - £492
90th Percentile - - £501
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £471
% change year-on-year -12.00% +32.63% -5.75%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

ForeScout 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 8,443 6,591 9,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.18% 46.11% 46.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,532 3,915 5,720
10th Percentile £220 £214 £208
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
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 638 347 524
10th Percentile £14.72 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.40 £16.96 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.72 £25.00 £46.09
Median % change year-on-year -13.13% -45.76% +101.80%
75th Percentile £46.86 £58.94 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £45.21
% change year-on-year -13.36% -39.17% +73.88%

ForeScout
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

ForeScout job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ForeScout
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

ForeScout
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 ForeScout within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -
North of England - 1 £650 - 6
ForeScout
UK

ForeScout
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) VMware