Situational Awareness Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Situational Awareness
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Situational Awareness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 362 395
Rank change year-on-year -24 +33 +105
Contract jobs citing Situational Awareness 23 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.036% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.043% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 3
10th Percentile £358 - £204
25th Percentile £399 £563 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year -14.52% +17.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £548 £594 £522
90th Percentile £597 £598 £539
UK median daily rate £492 £498 £600
% change year-on-year -1.21% -17.08% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.32
Median hourly rate £41.94 £90.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -53.40% +73.44% -13.05%
75th Percentile - - £59.03
90th Percentile - - £67.56
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £90.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -53.40% +73.44% -13.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Situational Awareness falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,506 14,029 17,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 87.39% 85.17% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,424 8,005 11,616
10th Percentile £219 £243 £250
25th Percentile £368 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,752 914 1,257
10th Percentile £14.32 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.43 £17.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% -26.97% +41.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +25.71%

Situational Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Situational Awareness job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Situational Awareness
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Situational Awareness
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Situational Awareness in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Situational Awareness in the UK excluding London

Situational Awareness
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Situational Awareness
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 Situational Awareness within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
North of England - 9 £585 -
Scotland - 7 £492 - 1
North West - 6 £447 -
South East - 6 £425 - 6
Yorkshire - 3 £599 -
East Midlands - 1 £358 -
Midlands - 1 £358 -
Situational Awareness
UK

Situational Awareness
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 3 (13.04%) JBoss
1 3 (13.04%) Tomcat
1 3 (13.04%) WebLogic
1 3 (13.04%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) AWS
1 3 (13.04%) Azure
1 3 (13.04%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Bitbucket
2 3 (13.04%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) Android Studio
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Military
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Senior
2 5 (21.74%) Applications Support
2 5 (21.74%) Applications Support Technician
2 5 (21.74%) Scrum Master
2 5 (21.74%) Senior Applications Support
2 5 (21.74%) Senior Support Technician
2 5 (21.74%) Senior Technician
2 5 (21.74%) Support Technician
3 4 (17.39%) Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Programme Director
4 3 (13.04%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Android Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Programme Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Services Director
5 1 (4.35%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) RAML
1 3 (13.04%) REST
1 3 (13.04%) SOAP
1 3 (13.04%) Web Services
1 3 (13.04%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (21.74%) Product Ownership
3 3 (13.04%) Private Cloud
4 2 (8.70%) Driving Licence
5 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
1 8 (34.78%) Windows
2 5 (21.74%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (34.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 8 (34.78%) Risk Management
2 8 (34.78%) Threat Intelligence
3 7 (30.43%) ITIL
4 6 (26.09%) Incident Response
4 6 (26.09%) Validation
5 5 (21.74%) Backlog Management
5 5 (21.74%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 5 (21.74%) Conflict Resolution
5 5 (21.74%) Cyber Intelligence
5 5 (21.74%) Data Flow Diagram
5 5 (21.74%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 5 (21.74%) Preventative Maintenance
5 5 (21.74%) Purple Team
5 5 (21.74%) Red Team
5 5 (21.74%) Remediation Plan
5 5 (21.74%) SDLC
5 5 (21.74%) Servant Leadership
5 5 (21.74%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Security Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) DV Cleared
3 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
4 5 (21.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (17.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (13.04%) Degree
7 2 (8.70%) CASP
7 2 (8.70%) CISSP
7 2 (8.70%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (8.70%) GCIA
7 2 (8.70%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) NIST
2 5 (21.74%) NCSC
3 3 (13.04%) GDPR
3 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) ArcSight
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.35%) Coverity
3 1 (4.35%) Thales