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 requiring knowledge or experience of Sophos products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sophos over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 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 Sophos PLC.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 334 391
Rank change year-on-year -23 +57 +102
Contract jobs citing Sophos 10 41 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.52% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 34 22
10th Percentile - £375 £286
25th Percentile £190 £392 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £550 £356
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +54.39% +54.05%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £400
90th Percentile £650 £593 £520
UK median daily rate £230 £550 £350
% change year-on-year -58.18% +57.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £29.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £31.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +77.14% -0.17%
75th Percentile - £32.50 £18.94
90th Percentile - - £19.28
UK median hourly rate - £31.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +77.14% -0.17%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Sophos 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 7,374 7,928 10,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.07% 43.30% 45.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,490 4,810 6,577
10th Percentile £220 £217 £205
25th Percentile £363 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £689 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 724 479
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.47
25th Percentile £16.86 £15.62 £17.71
Median hourly rate £22.16 £28.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.87% -12.50% +61.53%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.38 £58.59
90th Percentile £68.23 £70.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year -13.28% -26.77% +80.00%

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 14 August 2025.

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 14 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
Wales - 5 £200 -
South East - 2 £600 - 15
South West - 2 £600 - 4
North of England -31 1 £230 -45.88% 4
Yorkshire - 1 £230 -
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 2 (20.00%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (70.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
1 5 (50.00%) LAN
1 5 (50.00%) WAN
2 3 (30.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
2 5 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Technical Support
2 5 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) 3rd Line Technical Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) 3rd Line Technical Support
2 5 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Technical Support
2 5 (50.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Migration Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Migration Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Runbook
3 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (20.00%) RBAC
3 2 (20.00%) SIEM
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (70.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) EMC
3 2 (20.00%) McAfee
4 1 (10.00%) WatchGuard