Sophos Contracts in the UK excluding London

Sophos
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sophos over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sophos PLC.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 422 470
Rank change year-on-year +62 +48 -58
Contract jobs citing Sophos 33 29 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% 0.27% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 23 27
10th Percentile £363 £152 £135
25th Percentile £375 £244 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £298 £310
Median % change year-on-year +50.42% -4.03% -2.36%
75th Percentile £581 £375 £444
90th Percentile £675 £463 £460
UK median daily rate £425 £350 £363
% change year-on-year +21.43% -3.45% -6.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £16.55 - -
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +2.86% -4.76%
75th Percentile £19.60 £19.44 £19.38
90th Percentile £19.81 £19.78 £19.75
UK median hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +5.71% -4.76%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Sophos is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,798 10,623 12,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.79% 44.47% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,292 7,304 8,351
10th Percentile £206 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 954 480 641
10th Percentile £11.80 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.67 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%
75th Percentile £59.50 £62.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.03 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £22.15 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.88% +97.67% -2.27%

Sophos
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Sophos in the UK excluding London

Sophos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Sophos in the UK excluding London

Sophos
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sophos in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sophos in the UK excluding London

Sophos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Sophos in the UK excluding London

Sophos
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 Sophos within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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 +42 16 £400 +79.78% 6
North West +37 15 £400 +79.78% 4
East of England +19 9 £550 +84.87% 8
West Midlands +25 5 £455 +13.75% 1
Midlands +24 5 £455 +82.00% 3
South East +21 3 £375 +7.14% 2
South West +22 1 £425 -15.00% 6
Yorkshire +20 1 £375 - 1
Sophos
UK

Sophos
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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (15.15%) SharePoint
3 3 (9.09%) Exchange Server 2000
3 3 (9.09%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (9.09%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (9.09%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (9.09%) Exchange Server 2013
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Shopify
2 1 (3.03%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (36.36%) Azure
3 10 (30.30%) Mimecast
4 8 (24.24%) AWS
5 5 (15.15%) Power Platform
6 4 (12.12%) GCP
7 2 (6.06%) BigCommerce
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Stack
8 1 (3.03%) IaaS
8 1 (3.03%) OCI
8 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
8 1 (3.03%) PaaS
8 1 (3.03%) SaaS
8 1 (3.03%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) Firewall
2 7 (21.21%) SMTP
3 2 (6.06%) DNS
3 2 (6.06%) LAN
3 2 (6.06%) VPN
3 2 (6.06%) WAN
4 1 (3.03%) DHCP
4 1 (3.03%) NetScaler
4 1 (3.03%) SAN
4 1 (3.03%) Skype
4 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Power BI
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Hudson
General
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Advertising
2 2 (6.06%) Marketing
2 2 (6.06%) Retail
3 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Back Office
3 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (21.21%) Lead
1 7 (21.21%) Messaging Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Analyst
2 4 (12.12%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Desktop Support
4 2 (6.06%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Service Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) SOC Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Technologist
5 1 (3.03%) Security Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
1 1 (3.03%) LIMS
1 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
1 1 (3.03%) PKI
1 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Windows
2 7 (21.21%) Windows Server
3 4 (12.12%) Apple iOS
3 4 (12.12%) Linux
3 4 (12.12%) Mac OS
3 4 (12.12%) Windows 10
4 3 (9.09%) Windows 2000
4 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 5 (15.15%) Contingency Planning
3 5 (15.15%) Security Testing
3 5 (15.15%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 4 (12.12%) Incident Response
4 4 (12.12%) Migration
4 4 (12.12%) Open Source
4 4 (12.12%) SIEM
4 4 (12.12%) Threat Detection
5 3 (9.09%) ITIL
6 2 (6.06%) Asset Management
6 2 (6.06%) B2B
6 2 (6.06%) Customer Service
6 2 (6.06%) Identity Management
6 2 (6.06%) Incident Management
6 2 (6.06%) Patch Management
6 2 (6.06%) Service Design
6 2 (6.06%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.06%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) DV Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) MCP
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) MCSE
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.06%) MOS
5 1 (3.03%) CCNA
5 1 (3.03%) CCNP
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.03%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (15.15%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.03%) vSphere
4 1 (3.03%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) MAILsweeper
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (9.09%) SCCM
3 2 (6.06%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) Rapid7
3 7 (21.21%) Trend Micro
3 7 (21.21%) VMware
4 4 (12.12%) Aruba
5 3 (9.09%) HP
5 3 (9.09%) IronPort
6 2 (6.06%) Adobe
6 2 (6.06%) Apple
6 2 (6.06%) CheckPoint
6 2 (6.06%) Cisco
6 2 (6.06%) Fortinet
6 2 (6.06%) NetApp
6 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
6 2 (6.06%) SAP
6 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
6 2 (6.06%) Sitecore
6 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.03%) Meraki
7 1 (3.03%) Proofpoint