Adaptive Security Contracts

Adaptive Security
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Adaptive Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Adaptive Security over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 576 711
Rank change year-on-year +62 +135 +143
Contract jobs citing Adaptive Security 6 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.014% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.016% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £581 £490 £340
25th Percentile £615 £513 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £550 £440
Median % change year-on-year +14.55% +25.00% -4.86%
75th Percentile £775 - £503
90th Percentile - - £540
UK excluding London median daily rate £615 £500 £315
% change year-on-year +23.00% +58.73% -31.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £63.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Adaptive Security 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Adaptive Security
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Adaptive Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Adaptive Security in the UK

Adaptive Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Adaptive Security.

Daily rate trend for Adaptive Security in the UK

Adaptive Security
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Adaptive Security over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Adaptive Security in the UK

Adaptive Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Adaptive Security.

Hourly rate trend for Adaptive Security in the UK

Adaptive Security
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adaptive Security within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +57 6 £630 +14.55%
UK excluding London +63 3 £615 +23.00%
South East +46 3 £615 +23.00%
London +38 3 £750 +36.36%
Work from Home +39 1 £630 +14.55%

Adaptive Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) MPLS
2 4 (66.67%) NGFW
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) BGP
3 3 (50.00%) DNS
3 3 (50.00%) OSPF
3 3 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (50.00%) VLAN
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) Network Security
4 2 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (33.33%) VSAN
5 1 (16.67%) FCoE
5 1 (16.67%) IPsec
5 1 (16.67%) SAN
5 1 (16.67%) SSL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Network Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Network Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (50.00%) Requirements Management
1 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) CCIE
3 2 (33.33%) CCNP
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (33.33%) MCSE
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (33.33%) NCSC
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (16.67%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) Forcepoint
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds