Darktrace Contracts

Darktrace
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Darktrace products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Darktrace over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, 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 Darktrace.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 545 672
Rank change year-on-year +39 +127 +159
Contract jobs citing Darktrace 14 37 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.085% 0.077%
As % of the Vendors category 0.10% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 23 45
10th Percentile £590 £290 -
25th Percentile £613 £475 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £590 £350
Median % change year-on-year +14.41% +68.57% -30.00%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £631
90th Percentile £760 £690 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate - £650 £350
% change year-on-year - +85.71% -28.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £49.93 - -
25th Percentile £56.19 - -
Median hourly rate £72.25 - £25.00
75th Percentile £85.19 - -
90th Percentile £89.58 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £90.00 - -

All Vendors
UK

Darktrace 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 requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Darktrace in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Darktrace in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Darktrace over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Darktrace in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Darktrace over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Darktrace in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Darktrace 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
England +34 14 £675 +14.41% 32
UK excluding London +45 10 - - 29
South East - 6 - - 3
London +33 4 £675 +35.00% 4
East of England +17 4 - - 23
Work from Home +37 3 £750 +53.06% 1

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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 (28.57%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Firewall
1 7 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (28.57%) DNS
2 4 (28.57%) HTTP
2 4 (28.57%) SMTP
3 2 (14.29%) FTP
3 2 (14.29%) SSL
3 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Legal
2 1 (7.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Senior
2 6 (42.86%) Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Lead
3 4 (28.57%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (21.43%) Security Advisor
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Security Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Junior
6 1 (7.14%) Junior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (42.86%) JBoss Seam
3 2 (14.29%) LDAP
4 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Management Information System
2 4 (28.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (14.29%) Cyberattack
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (7.14%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) Security Architecture
3 6 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 6 (42.86%) Risk Management
3 6 (42.86%) Security Operations
3 6 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
4 5 (35.71%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (28.57%) Information Security
5 4 (28.57%) SIEM
6 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 2 (14.29%) Digital Forensics
6 2 (14.29%) SOAR
6 2 (14.29%) Threat Detection
6 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security
7 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (7.14%) Security Monitoring
7 1 (7.14%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Bicep
2 1 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) CISSP
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (14.29%) CCNA
4 2 (14.29%) CCSP
4 2 (14.29%) CEH
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (14.29%) CompTIA CySA+
4 2 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (14.29%) Degree
4 2 (14.29%) GCIH
4 2 (14.29%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) FireEye
1 4 (28.57%) LogRhythm
1 4 (28.57%) Splunk
2 2 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) IronPort
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Symantec