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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 560 650
Rank change year-on-year +39 +90 +165
Contract jobs citing CASB 34 20 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.050% 0.055%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.66% 0.38% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 19
10th Percentile £415 £465 £500
25th Percentile £485 £501 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -8.13% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £738
90th Percentile £738 £701 £793
UK excluding London median daily rate £612 £510 £688
% change year-on-year +20.00% -25.82% +19.57%

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 5,148 5,313 8,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.61% 13.15% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,395 3,763 5,836
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £407 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 83 178
10th Percentile £13.75 £17.14 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.56 £21.29 £25.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -48.32% +151.11%
75th Percentile £63.58 £55.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.22 £74.00 £82.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +69.23% -29.62% +130.90%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +27 32 £600 +6.19% 18
London +22 20 £625 -3.85% 11
UK excluding London +19 7 £612 +20.00% 10
Work from Home +19 6 £600 +11.63% 10
North West +2 3 £612 +20.00% 2
North of England -11 3 £612 +20.00% 2
Midlands - 2 £619 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £619 -
East of England +13 1 £475 -
South East - 1 £450 - 5

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 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) 1Password
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft Purview
2 8 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) AWS
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.94%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 18 (52.94%) Firewall
2 9 (26.47%) Network Security
3 8 (23.53%) WAN
4 5 (14.71%) DNS
4 5 (14.71%) SD-WAN
4 5 (14.71%) SSL
4 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
4 5 (14.71%) VPN
5 3 (8.82%) LAN
5 3 (8.82%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (5.88%) Internet
6 2 (5.88%) NGFW
6 2 (5.88%) VoIP
7 1 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.94%) tcpdump
7 1 (2.94%) Wireshark
General
1 10 (29.41%) Finance
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Legal
4 2 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.94%) Games
5 1 (2.94%) German Language
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Lead
1 9 (26.47%) Security Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Consultant
2 6 (17.65%) Network Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Network Security Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Security Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Security Consultant
4 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) Applications Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) IT Support
5 2 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Support Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Network Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Insider Threat
1 9 (26.47%) Security Posture
2 6 (17.65%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (8.82%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.82%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.88%) PKI
5 1 (2.94%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Windows
2 8 (23.53%) Linux
3 5 (14.71%) Unix
4 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) Data Loss Prevention
2 17 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 14 (41.18%) Information Security
4 13 (38.24%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (32.35%) Data Protection
6 9 (26.47%) UEBA
7 7 (20.59%) Data Privacy
7 7 (20.59%) Roadmaps
7 7 (20.59%) Vulnerability Management
8 6 (17.65%) Penetration Testing
8 6 (17.65%) SIEM
8 6 (17.65%) Validation
9 5 (14.71%) Application Security
9 5 (14.71%) Identity Management
9 5 (14.71%) ITIL
9 5 (14.71%) Log Correlation
9 5 (14.71%) Security Operations
9 5 (14.71%) Ticket Management
9 5 (14.71%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 5 (14.71%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 15 (44.12%) CISSP
2 12 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (26.47%) CISM
4 6 (17.65%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (14.71%) MCSA
5 5 (14.71%) MCSE
6 4 (11.76%) Degree
6 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
7 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
8 1 (2.94%) CCSK
8 1 (2.94%) CEH
8 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.94%) GIAC
8 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (32.35%) GDPR
2 10 (29.41%) HIPAA
3 9 (26.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (26.47%) SOC 2
4 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (8.82%) NIST
5 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Nessus
2 3 (8.82%) SCCM
2 3 (8.82%) SCOrch
3 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.59%) Palo Alto
2 7 (20.59%) Splunk
3 6 (17.65%) CyberArk
4 5 (14.71%) Remedy
4 5 (14.71%) Tenable
5 3 (8.82%) Google
6 2 (5.88%) Cisco
6 2 (5.88%) Rapid7
6 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.88%) Zscaler
7 1 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.94%) Forcepoint
7 1 (2.94%) iManage
7 1 (2.94%) Netskope