Sysdig Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Sysdig
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Sysdig skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Sysdig 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.013% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.079% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Sysdig 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 2,522 2,301 2,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 13.24% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 1,517 1,982
10th Percentile £229 £250 £273
25th Percentile £381 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £613
90th Percentile £641 £654 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 36 119
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.57 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £35.00
Median hourly rate £21.39 £37.08 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% -22.47% +117.41%
75th Percentile £63.95 £54.13 £74.69
90th Percentile £79.50 £74.22 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £36.83 £55.00
% change year-on-year -29.41% -33.03% +130.03%

Sysdig
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Sysdig job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Sysdig
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Sysdig
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 Sysdig within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 October 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 - 2 £500 - 1
Sysdig
UK

Sysdig
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%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform