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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 341 372
Rank change year-on-year -17 +31 +131
Contract jobs citing SANS 8 29 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.44% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 25 34
10th Percentile £465 - £583
25th Percentile £488 £463 £637
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -28.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £838
90th Percentile £690 £700 -
UK median daily rate £638 £500 £675
% change year-on-year +27.50% -25.93% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.29%

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 5,448 6,528 7,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.25% 35.94% 32.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,201 3,964 4,585
10th Percentile £214 £298 £300
25th Percentile £393 £420 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £716 £701
UK median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.19% -4.36% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 664 729 525
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% -7.77% +14.44%
75th Percentile £50.00 £67.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% -21.82% +22.22%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 - 3 £550 - 3
West Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
Wales +3 1 £500 -24.95%
Scotland - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - - 3
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 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) Network Security
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (12.50%) NGFW
4 1 (12.50%) SSL
4 1 (12.50%) VPN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Service Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (12.50%) Cyberattack
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) SIEM
3 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Register
4 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) SOAR
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) CISSP
2 3 (37.50%) CISM
2 3 (37.50%) GIAC
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) CISA
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) ISACA
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) CCSK
4 1 (12.50%) CCSP
4 1 (12.50%) CEH
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) GCED
4 1 (12.50%) GCIA
4 1 (12.50%) GCIH
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (12.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) CASB
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) QRadar
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Tenable
2 1 (12.50%) Clearswift
2 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
2 1 (12.50%) Forcepoint
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Rapid7
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Zscaler