CASB Contracts

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring CASB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CASB over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 589 663
Rank change year-on-year +103 +74 +137
Contract jobs citing CASB 33 11 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.025% 0.084%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.72% 0.21% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 36
10th Percentile £425 £427 £425
25th Percentile £475 £548 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £549
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.45% -6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £722 £650
90th Percentile £763 £758 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

CASB 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

CASB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CASB in the UK

CASB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CASB in the UK

CASB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CASB over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CASB in the UK

CASB
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CASB within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +85 31 £600 -7.69% 28
London +47 21 £588 -9.62% 16
UK excluding London +61 8 £475 - 21
Work from Home +52 5 £500 -22.33% 26
Midlands - 3 £775 -
West Midlands - 3 £775 -
Scotland +10 2 £463 -
South East - 2 £450 - 1
North West - 1 £475 - 5
North of England - 1 £475 - 6

CASB
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 9 (27.27%) Azure
3 3 (9.09%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.06%) GCP
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (39.39%) Firewall
2 8 (24.24%) Network Security
3 5 (15.15%) WAN
4 4 (12.12%) VPN
5 3 (9.09%) Internet
5 3 (9.09%) LAN
5 3 (9.09%) SD-WAN
6 2 (6.06%) NGFW
6 2 (6.06%) VoIP
6 2 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (3.03%) DNS
7 1 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (3.03%) SSL
7 1 (3.03%) tcpdump
7 1 (3.03%) Wireless
7 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Legal
4 3 (9.09%) Banking
5 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Lead
2 6 (18.18%) Architect
2 6 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Network Security Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Security Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Security Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) IT Support
6 2 (6.06%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Security Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Insider Threat
2 7 (21.21%) Management Information System
3 5 (15.15%) Security Posture
4 3 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
5 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.06%) PKI
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (3.03%) Cyberattack
6 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Unix
2 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) Data Loss Prevention
2 16 (48.48%) Cloud Security
2 16 (48.48%) Information Security
3 15 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (42.42%) Data Protection
5 10 (30.30%) UEBA
6 9 (27.27%) Data Privacy
7 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
8 7 (21.21%) SIEM
9 6 (18.18%) Risk Management
10 5 (15.15%) DevSecOps
10 5 (15.15%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (15.15%) Security Operations
11 4 (12.12%) Application Security
11 4 (12.12%) Incident Response
11 4 (12.12%) SDLC
11 4 (12.12%) Security Management
11 4 (12.12%) Threat Management
11 4 (12.12%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 14 (42.42%) CISSP
2 11 (33.33%) CISM
3 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (21.21%) Degree
5 3 (9.09%) Master's Degree
6 2 (6.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (6.06%) CCSP
6 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (6.06%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
6 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
7 1 (3.03%) CCSK
7 1 (3.03%) CEH
7 1 (3.03%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.03%) GIAC
7 1 (3.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (3.03%) SANS
7 1 (3.03%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (36.36%) GDPR
2 11 (33.33%) HIPAA
3 10 (30.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (30.30%) SOC 2
4 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (9.09%) NIST
6 2 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) SCCM
1 2 (6.06%) SCOrch
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Palo Alto
3 4 (12.12%) Forcepoint
4 3 (9.09%) Cisco
4 3 (9.09%) Google
4 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 3 (9.09%) Zscaler
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle
5 2 (6.06%) Splunk
5 2 (6.06%) TOWER Software
6 1 (3.03%) Aruba
6 1 (3.03%) CyberArk