Darktrace Contract Job Trends

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 3 December 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
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 536 564
Rank change year-on-year -16 +28 +210
Contract jobs citing Darktrace 27 11 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.075% 0.031% 0.098%
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% 0.068% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 34
10th Percentile - - £317
25th Percentile £400 £290 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £408 £606
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -32.78% +27.63%
75th Percentile £775 £559 £631
90th Percentile - £599 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £290 £613
% change year-on-year +54.75% -52.65% +28.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £38.15 - -
25th Percentile £41.00 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £62.75 - -
90th Percentile £63.05 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 17,159 16,224 20,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.37% 45.30% 45.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,893 9,596 13,014
10th Percentile £288 £293 £256
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 853 512 668
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.51 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.22 £19.28 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £29.39 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.92% -33.97% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 £64.55
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +97.78%

Darktrace
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Darktrace job vacancy trend in the UK

Darktrace
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Darktrace
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Darktrace over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Darktrace in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Darktrace.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Darktrace

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Darktrace over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Darktrace in the UK

Darktrace
Top 10 Contract Job 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 3 December 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 -10 27 £449 +10.13% 10
London +1 16 £575 +2.22% 3
UK excluding London -33 9 £449 +54.75% 9
Work from Home - 9 £413 - 5
North of England - 4 £425 -
South East - 4 £763 - 3
North West - 3 £425 -
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £473 -

Darktrace
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 5 (18.52%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (18.52%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) Entra ID
3 4 (14.81%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (7.41%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (29.63%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) DNS
2 3 (11.11%) HTTP
2 3 (11.11%) SMTP
2 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 3 (11.11%) VPN
3 2 (7.41%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 16 (59.26%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Financial Institution
3 5 (18.52%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Legal
4 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Architect
1 8 (29.63%) Security Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Consultant
4 4 (14.81%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) Security Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) Forensic Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Security Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) SOC Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Network Security Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (7.41%) JBoss Seam
1 2 (7.41%) JSON
1 2 (7.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
2 3 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (7.41%) IoT
3 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Insider Threat
4 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Mac OS
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) Cybersecurity
1 19 (70.37%) Incident Response
2 14 (51.85%) Security Architecture
3 12 (44.44%) Security Operations
3 12 (44.44%) Threat Detection
4 8 (29.63%) Business Strategy
4 8 (29.63%) Information Security
4 8 (29.63%) IT Strategy
4 8 (29.63%) Technology Strategy
5 6 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (22.22%) SIEM
6 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
6 5 (18.52%) Computer Science
6 5 (18.52%) Digital Forensics
6 5 (18.52%) Fintech
6 5 (18.52%) Server Hardening
6 5 (18.52%) SOAR
7 4 (14.81%) AI
8 3 (11.11%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 3 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) Bash
1 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
1 5 (18.52%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (3.70%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) CISSP
2 7 (25.93%) GCIH
3 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (18.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 5 (18.52%) Azure Certification
4 5 (18.52%) CCSP
4 5 (18.52%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (18.52%) CompTIA CySA+
4 5 (18.52%) Degree
5 4 (14.81%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (11.11%) CCNA
6 3 (11.11%) CEH
6 3 (11.11%) OSCP
6 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
7 2 (7.41%) CISM
7 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
7 2 (7.41%) GCFA
7 2 (7.41%) GCFE
7 2 (7.41%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) NIST
1 3 (11.11%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) CSIRT
1 3 (11.11%) QRadar
2 2 (7.41%) EnCase
2 2 (7.41%) FTK
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (40.74%) CrowdStrike
2 11 (40.74%) Splunk
3 8 (29.63%) CyberArk
4 6 (22.22%) Google
4 6 (22.22%) Zscaler
5 2 (7.41%) ExtraHop
5 2 (7.41%) FireEye
5 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
5 2 (7.41%) IBM
5 2 (7.41%) McAfee
5 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
5 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (7.41%) Trend Micro
6 1 (3.70%) Cribl.io
6 1 (3.70%) Qualys
6 1 (3.70%) Varonis