Boundary Protection Contracts

Boundary Protection
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Boundary Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Boundary Protection 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 518 573 707
Rank change year-on-year +55 +134 +132
Contract jobs citing Boundary Protection 2 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.021% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.024% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £606 £528 -
25th Percentile £614 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £652 £650 £794
90th Percentile £662 £673 £1,053
UK excluding London median daily rate £631 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +5.21% - -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Boundary Protection 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%

Boundary Protection
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Boundary Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Boundary Protection in the UK

Boundary Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Boundary Protection.

Daily rate trend for Boundary Protection in the UK

Boundary Protection
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Boundary Protection 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
UK excluding London +56 2 £631 +5.21% 1
England +50 2 £631 +5.21% 2
South West +46 1 £663 -1.85%
Work from Home +40 1 £663 +10.42%
South East +39 1 £600 +14.29% 1
North West - 1 £663 -
North of England - 1 £663 -

Boundary Protection
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 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Bid Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Protective Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable