AlgoSec Contract Job Trends

AlgoSec
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies citing AlgoSec products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AlgoSec over the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2026, 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 AlgoSec.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	689	567	543
Rank change year-on-year	-122	-24	+92
Contract jobs citing AlgoSec	13	7	10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	0.024%	0.020%	0.027%
As % of the Vendors category	0.056%	0.043%	0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted	6	4	7
10^th Percentile	£427	£408	£480
25^th Percentile	£445	£419	£500
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£478	£450	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+6.22%	-14.29%	+5.00%
75^th Percentile	£584	£508	£550
90^th Percentile	£613	£544	-
UK excluding London median daily rate	£451	-	£525
% change year-on-year	-	-	+5.00%

All Vendors
UK

AlgoSec 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 citing vendor products and services.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing vendor products and services	23,286	16,292	16,475
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK	42.48%	47.60%	44.88%
Number of daily rates quoted	13,940	10,140	9,690
10^th Percentile	£313	£281	£291
25^th Percentile	£413	£405	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£515	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+3.00%	-4.76%	-
75^th Percentile	£625	£613	£625
90^th Percentile	£713	£700	£725
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£492	£500
% change year-on-year	+1.63%	-1.60%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	1,576	824	532
10^th Percentile	£13.50	£15.00	£15.00
25^th Percentile	£15.75	£17.87	£16.85
Median hourly rate	£24.00	£25.00	£32.50
Median % change year-on-year	-4.00%	-23.08%	-25.71%
75^th Percentile	£56.57	£38.94	£63.75
90^th Percentile	£76.88	£69.01	£71.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£22.50	£22.16	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+1.52%	-26.13%	-27.71%

AlgoSec Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AlgoSec relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AlgoSec Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AlgoSec.

AlgoSec Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AlgoSec over the 6 months to 30 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AlgoSec in the UK

AlgoSec Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AlgoSec within the UK over the 6 months to 30 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	-127	13	£478	+6.22%	2
North West	-	9	£451	-	2
UK excluding London	-	9	£451	-	2
North of England	-	9	£451	-	2
London	-102	4	£575	+35.29%
Work from Home	-55	3	£575	+21.05%

AlgoSec Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing AlgoSec also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads citing AlgoSec.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Network Security	100.0%	13
2	Firewall	92.3%	12
3	Zero Trust	69.2%	9
4	Security Management	61.5%	8
5	CCNP	53.8%	7
5	Cisco Certification	53.8%	7
5	CISSP	53.8%	7
5	Palo Alto	53.8%	7
5	Security Operations	53.8%	7
5	Stakeholder Management	53.8%	7
11	Ansible	46.2%	6
11	Bash	46.2%	6
11	CheckPoint	46.2%	6
11	Cisco	46.2%	6
11	Fortinet	46.2%	6
11	Migration	46.2%	6
11	PowerShell	46.2%	6
11	Python	46.2%	6
11	Terraform	46.2%	6
11	VPN	46.2%	6
21	Cisco ASA	38.5%	5
21	Cisco Firepower	38.5%	5
21	ISO/IEC 27001	38.5%	5
21	ITIL	38.5%	5
21	NIST	38.5%	5
21	PCI DSS	38.5%	5
21	Risk Analysis	38.5%	5
21	Risk Assessment	38.5%	5
29	Compliance Management	30.8%	4
29	Infrastructure Engineering	30.8%	4

AlgoSec Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Vendors

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Palo Alto	53.8%	7
2	CheckPoint	46.2%	6
2	Cisco	46.2%	6
2	Fortinet	46.2%	6
5	Microsoft	15.4%	2
6	Arista	7.7%	1
6	Blue Coat	7.7%	1
6	Symantec	7.7%	1
6	Tufin	7.7%	1