Proofpoint Contracts in the UK excluding London

Proofpoint
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 Proofpoint products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Proofpoint 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 Proofpoint, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 390 -
Rank change year-on-year +65 - -
Contract jobs citing Proofpoint 11 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.043% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.18% 0.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 0
10th Percentile £368 £399 -
25th Percentile £394 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - -
75th Percentile £447 £478 -
90th Percentile £521 £563 -
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £650
% change year-on-year - -30.77% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £23.80 -
% change year-on-year +72.27% - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Proofpoint 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%

Proofpoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Proofpoint in the UK excluding London

Proofpoint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Proofpoint in the UK excluding London

Proofpoint
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proofpoint in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Proofpoint in the UK excluding London

Proofpoint
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Proofpoint in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Proofpoint in the UK excluding London

Proofpoint
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 Proofpoint 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
Midlands - 6 £400 -
West Midlands - 6 £400 -
Scotland - 3 £496 - 1
North of England +19 2 £350 -31.03% 17
Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 2
South East +46 1 - - 11
Proofpoint
UK

Proofpoint
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 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2013
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (36.36%) Mimecast
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) Unified Communications
3 2 (18.18%) DKIM
3 2 (18.18%) DMARC
3 2 (18.18%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
General
1 4 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Python Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Unified Communications Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Messaging Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) FastAPI
1 2 (18.18%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Change Management
1 5 (45.45%) Data Loss Prevention
1 5 (45.45%) User Experience
2 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
2 4 (36.36%) Information Security
2 4 (36.36%) Kalman Filter
2 4 (36.36%) PLM
2 4 (36.36%) Strategic Planning
2 4 (36.36%) System Testing
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Service Catalogue
3 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (18.18%) SIEM
4 2 (18.18%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CEH
1 2 (18.18%) CISM
1 2 (18.18%) CISSP
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Podman
2 2 (18.18%) RSA Archer
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) Netskope
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle
3 3 (27.27%) Splunk
3 3 (27.27%) Symantec