Proofpoint Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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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 25 November 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
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 360 407
Rank change year-on-year -33 +47 +99
Contract jobs citing Proofpoint 4 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.049% 0.039%
As % of the Vendors category 0.048% 0.11% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £373 £385 -
25th Percentile £380 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year -26.14% +25.71% -7.89%
75th Percentile £430 £588 £494
90th Percentile £434 £595 £573
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £450
% change year-on-year -6.98% +19.44% -3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £39.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - +77.27% -

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 8,377 7,350 9,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.62% 44.92% 47.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,390 4,233 6,214
10th Percentile £222 £220 £210
25th Percentile £369 £390 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 662 432 528
10th Percentile £14.76 £15.22 £14.46
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.25 £18.27
Median hourly rate £22.32 £27.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% -38.20% +97.78%
75th Percentile £43.06 £62.51 £61.59
90th Percentile £74.26 £73.98 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.18% -32.58% +73.08%

Proofpoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Proofpoint job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Proofpoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Proofpoint

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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 25 November 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 - 2 - - 3
West Midlands -24 1 £425 - 1
Midlands -35 1 £425 - 1
North of England -46 1 £388 +10.71%
North West - 1 £388 -
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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) n8n
2 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (25.00%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Data Security
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CEH
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft