CASB Contract Job Trends

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring CASB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 492 584
Rank change year-on-year -105 +92 +81
Contract jobs citing CASB 33 31 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.11% 0.025%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.51% 0.66% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 20 6
10th Percentile £429 £410 £385
25th Percentile £549 £472 £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.46% +27.45%
75th Percentile £624 £663 £703
90th Percentile £646 £765 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £475 -
% change year-on-year +26.32% - -

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 6,441 4,679 5,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.07% 16.01% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,428 3,204 3,754
10th Percentile £318 £313 £259
25th Percentile £413 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% -9.91%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 52 133
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.89 £22.14 £17.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%
75th Percentile £69.38 £50.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £72.25 £69.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £30.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -19.40% -34.86%

CASB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CASB job vacancy trend in the UK

CASB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CASB

CASB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CASB over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CASB in the UK

CASB
Top 11 Contract Job 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 11 April 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -97 31 £590 +0.43% 8
Work from Home -19 18 £588 +20.51% 1
London -75 18 £575 -2.13% 5
UK excluding London -91 15 £600 +26.32% 6
North of England -56 11 £620 +30.53%
North West -21 8 £630 +32.53%
Yorkshire - 3 £600 -
Scotland +6 2 £600 +29.73%
South East -55 1 £525 +16.67% 3
West Midlands -64 1 £450 -41.94% 1
Midlands -66 1 £450 -41.94% 1

CASB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.09%) Confluence
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) SaaS
2 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) Entra ID
3 3 (9.09%) AWS
4 2 (6.06%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (6.06%) Mimecast
5 1 (3.03%) Apigee
5 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
5 1 (3.03%) IaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (42.42%) Firewall
2 13 (39.39%) SSL
3 10 (30.30%) Internet
4 5 (15.15%) DNS
4 5 (15.15%) Network Security
4 5 (15.15%) TCP/IP
4 5 (15.15%) WAN
5 3 (9.09%) NGFW
5 3 (9.09%) VPN
5 3 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (6.06%) BGP
6 2 (6.06%) MPLS
6 2 (6.06%) SD-WAN
7 1 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (3.03%) IPsec
7 1 (3.03%) Multicast
7 1 (3.03%) Wireless
7 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (9.09%) Spanish Language
3 1 (3.03%) Banking
3 1 (3.03%) Italian Language
3 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Security Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Lead
2 4 (12.12%) Product Owner
3 3 (9.09%) Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Service Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Network Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Security Manager
5 1 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) SOC Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Technical Product Owner
5 1 (3.03%) Transformation Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) LDAP
2 4 (12.12%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 15 (45.45%) Security Posture
2 13 (39.39%) Cloud Security Posture
3 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
3 4 (12.12%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.06%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Linux
1 9 (27.27%) Windows
2 5 (15.15%) Unix
3 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (75.76%) Cloud Security
2 23 (69.70%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (57.58%) Data Loss Prevention
3 19 (57.58%) SIEM
4 15 (45.45%) Security Operations
5 11 (33.33%) Ticket Management
6 9 (27.27%) Incident Management
7 8 (24.24%) Incident Response
7 8 (24.24%) ITIL
7 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
7 8 (24.24%) Zero Trust
8 7 (21.21%) Regulatory Compliance
8 7 (21.21%) Threat Detection
8 7 (21.21%) Vulnerability Management
9 6 (18.18%) AI
9 6 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (18.18%) Change Management
9 6 (18.18%) DevSecOps
9 6 (18.18%) Knowledge Management
9 6 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) CISSP
2 9 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 8 (24.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
5 6 (18.18%) CISM
5 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (18.18%) SSCP
6 5 (15.15%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (15.15%) MCSA
6 5 (15.15%) MCSE
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
7 2 (6.06%) CCSP
7 2 (6.06%) CEH
8 1 (3.03%) CCDA
8 1 (3.03%) CCDP
8 1 (3.03%) CCIP
8 1 (3.03%) CCNA
8 1 (3.03%) CCNP
8 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (21.21%) NIST
2 3 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (9.09%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.06%) SOC 2
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.03%) GDPR
4 1 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.03%) ProxySG
3 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Nessus
2 3 (9.09%) SCCM
2 3 (9.09%) SCOrch
3 1 (3.03%) Ansible
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 11 (33.33%) Zscaler
3 9 (27.27%) ServiceNow
4 7 (21.21%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (21.21%) Tenable
5 6 (18.18%) Splunk
6 5 (15.15%) Cisco
6 5 (15.15%) CyberArk
6 5 (15.15%) Remedy
7 3 (9.09%) Palo Alto
8 2 (6.06%) Fortinet
8 2 (6.06%) Netskope
9 1 (3.03%) Arista
9 1 (3.03%) Aruba
9 1 (3.03%) CheckPoint
9 1 (3.03%) HP
9 1 (3.03%) Infoblox
9 1 (3.03%) Juniper
9 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds
9 1 (3.03%) Symantec