Rapid7 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Rapid7
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 Rapid7 products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rapid7 over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 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 Rapid7 LLC.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 387 406
Rank change year-on-year +48 +19 +86
Contract jobs citing Rapid7 17 12 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.060% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.23% 0.14% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 20
10th Percentile £413 £255 £325
25th Percentile £426 £275 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £510
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -14.22% +63.20%
75th Percentile £519 £527 £575
90th Percentile £546 £599 £655
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +66.40%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Rapid7 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 7,284 8,608 10,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.56% 42.70% 45.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,421 5,245 6,893
10th Percentile £220 £213 £206
25th Percentile £363 £378 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £684
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 593 889 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.74 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.00 £17.55
Median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £27.93
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -10.49% +40.99%
75th Percentile £45.00 £61.30 £58.59
90th Percentile £68.60 £70.00 £70.08
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £26.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.27% -35.00% +81.82%

Rapid7
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Rapid7 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Rapid7 in the UK excluding London

Rapid7
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Rapid7 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Rapid7 in the UK excluding London

Rapid7
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rapid7 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Rapid7 in the UK excluding London

Rapid7
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 Rapid7 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 July 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 +40 9 £488 - 4
Midlands -3 3 £465 +78.85% 2
East Midlands - 3 £465 -
Scotland -1 2 £445 +48.33%
North West +3 1 - - 3
North of England -4 1 - - 4
East of England - 1 £475 -
South West - 1 £500 -
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UK

Rapid7
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:

Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) 1Password
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) OCI
4 1 (5.88%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
1 1 (5.88%) tcpdump
1 1 (5.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
1 3 (17.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Security Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Security Specialist
2 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Tester
4 1 (5.88%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) MISP
2 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Vulnerability Management
2 7 (41.18%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (35.29%) SIEM
4 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
4 5 (29.41%) Security Operations
5 4 (23.53%) Agile
5 4 (23.53%) IT Audit
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (17.65%) Information Security
6 3 (17.65%) Kanban
6 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 3 (17.65%) Threat Intelligence
7 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.76%) Data-Driven Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Generative AI
7 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
7 2 (11.76%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 2 (11.76%) SOAR
7 2 (11.76%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Bash
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) CISSP
2 4 (23.53%) CISA
2 4 (23.53%) CISM
2 4 (23.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (5.88%) CCSP
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) OSCP
4 1 (5.88%) SANS
4 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) NIST
2 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (23.53%) COBIT
3 4 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (23.53%) NIST 800
4 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Nessus
2 3 (17.65%) RSA Archer
3 1 (5.88%) CASB
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) OpenVAS
3 1 (5.88%) QRadar
3 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Alteryx
2 2 (11.76%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) ArcSight
3 1 (5.88%) Carbon Black
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) ESRI
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Kenna
3 1 (5.88%) LogRhythm
3 1 (5.88%) Netskope
3 1 (5.88%) Qualys