SANS Contracts in the UK excluding London

SANS Institute
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SANS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 348 399
Rank change year-on-year +19 +51 +94
Contract jobs citing SANS 10 51 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.25% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.22% 0.66% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 26 29
10th Percentile £465 - £475
25th Percentile £513 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -28.57% +32.08%
75th Percentile £663 £688 -
90th Percentile £743 £700 £838
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £700
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.75
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £78.20
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.98%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

SANS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,542 7,681 7,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.51% 37.01% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,777 4,413 5,341
10th Percentile £212 £269 £275
25th Percentile £394 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £535 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £725 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 935 669
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.58 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -18.12% +54.46%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.25 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +0.63% -25.93% +29.16%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SANS in the UK excluding London

SANS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SANS in the UK excluding London

SANS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SANS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SANS in the UK excluding London

SANS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SANS in the UK excluding London

SANS
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 SANS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
West Midlands - 4 £713 - 2
Midlands - 4 £713 - 2
South East +28 3 £550 - 3
South West +16 1 £600 +20.00% 1
East of England - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £500 - 1
SANS
UK

SANS
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (10.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Service Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) IT Security Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Operations Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (50.00%) SIEM
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
3 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (30.00%) SABSA
4 3 (30.00%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) Risk Register
5 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) SOAR
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) CISSP
2 6 (60.00%) GIAC
3 5 (50.00%) CISM
4 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (30.00%) CISA
5 3 (30.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) CEH
6 2 (20.00%) Degree
6 2 (20.00%) ISACA
6 2 (20.00%) OSCP
7 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
7 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (10.00%) GCFE
7 1 (10.00%) GCIH
7 1 (10.00%) GREM
7 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) NIST
2 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (20.00%) GDPR
4 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
4 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (10.00%) CASB
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) OPNET
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
1 2 (20.00%) Tenable
2 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (10.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) Forcepoint
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Rapid7