Stealthwatch Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cisco Stealthwatch (Lancope)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Stealthwatch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Stealthwatch 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.072% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £477 - -
25th Percentile £483 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
75th Percentile £533 - -
90th Percentile £536 - -
UK median daily rate £510 - £800
% change year-on-year - - +77.78%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Stealthwatch falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,792 2,033 2,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.19% 14.60% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,970 1,314 1,720
10th Percentile £263 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £651 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.19% -0.94% -8.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 41 116
10th Percentile £16.85 £12.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.09 £19.64 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -47.64% +19.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £44.50 £66.56
90th Percentile £84.60 £68.75 £77.75
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £24.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +111.35% -46.21% +27.89%

Stealthwatch
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Stealthwatch job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Stealthwatch
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Stealthwatch
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 Stealthwatch within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
East of England - 2 £510 - 2
Stealthwatch
UK

Stealthwatch
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Network Services Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (50.00%) jetNEXUS