FireEye Contract Job Trends

FireEye
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of FireEye products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FireEye over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 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 FireEye, Inc.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 541 619
Rank change year-on-year -5 +78 +172
Contract jobs citing FireEye 19 15 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.053% 0.041% 0.043%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.091% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 18
10th Percentile £337 £292 £292
25th Percentile £400 £453 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £513 £613
Median % change year-on-year -16.29% -16.33% +3.38%
75th Percentile £523 £635 £631
90th Percentile £538 £649 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £429 £413 £613
% change year-on-year +4.00% -32.65% +2.08%

All Vendors
UK

FireEye 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 16,890 16,512 21,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.53% 45.00% 45.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,614 9,726 13,552
10th Percentile £283 £300 £259
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.62%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £718 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 873 525 675
10th Percentile £15.12 £15.33 £14.57
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.16 £19.88
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% -30.64% +75.60%
75th Percentile £40.65 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.55 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £28.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -20.30% -36.00% +98.86%

FireEye
Job Vacancy Trend

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

FireEye job vacancy trend in the UK

FireEye
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

FireEye
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FireEye over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FireEye in the UK

FireEye
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

FireEye
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FireEye within the UK over the 6 months to 14 November 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 -22 19 £429 -16.29% 4
UK excluding London -25 13 £429 +4.00% 4
West Midlands - 7 £526 - 1
Midlands - 7 £526 - 2
London +18 6 - -
Work from Home +15 6 £484 -23.86% 3
South East +3 6 £420 +1.82% 2

FireEye
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
1 4 (21.05%) Azure Sentinel
1 4 (21.05%) Cloudflare
1 4 (21.05%) GCP
1 4 (21.05%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Network Security
2 5 (26.32%) Firewall
General
1 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) SIEM Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Operations Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Security Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Security Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Security Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cyber Security Posture
2 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.53%) SCADA
2 2 (10.53%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Clustering
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) SIEM
2 8 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (36.84%) Incident Response
4 6 (31.58%) Analytical Thinking
4 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (31.58%) Security Operations
4 6 (31.58%) SOAR
4 6 (31.58%) Threat Detection
5 4 (21.05%) Hyperautomation
5 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (21.05%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 4 (21.05%) Network Architecture
5 4 (21.05%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (21.05%) Zero Trust
6 2 (10.53%) AI
6 2 (10.53%) Security Monitoring
7 1 (5.26%) Ethical Hacking
7 1 (5.26%) Risk Management
7 1 (5.26%) Security Architecture
7 1 (5.26%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Kusto Query Language
1 9 (47.37%) PowerShell
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) CEH
2 6 (31.58%) CISSP
3 5 (26.32%) GIAC
4 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.26%) CCNA
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
1 4 (21.05%) Snort
1 4 (21.05%) Squid
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Kibana
2 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 4 (21.05%) Nessus
2 4 (21.05%) Nexpose
2 4 (21.05%) Suricata
3 1 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (5.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Tanium
2 7 (36.84%) Splunk
3 6 (31.58%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (31.58%) Palo Alto
4 5 (26.32%) Cisco
5 4 (21.05%) Blue Coat
5 4 (21.05%) Carbon Black
5 4 (21.05%) Google
5 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
5 4 (21.05%) Qualys
5 4 (21.05%) Zscaler
6 2 (10.53%) Darktrace
6 2 (10.53%) ExtraHop
6 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
6 2 (10.53%) McAfee
6 2 (10.53%) Trend Micro
7 1 (5.26%) ArcSight
7 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds