Forcepoint Contracts

Forcepoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Forcepoint products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Forcepoint 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 Forcepoint, LLC (formerly Websense).

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 556 680
Rank change year-on-year +48 +124 +81
Contract jobs citing Forcepoint 12 26 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.060% 0.064%
As % of the Vendors category 0.086% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 23
10th Percentile £460 £350 £413
25th Percentile £500 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +21.89% -13.46% +9.47%
75th Percentile £625 £475 £627
90th Percentile £701 £525 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +2.78% -28.00% +38.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £63.00 -

All Vendors
UK

Forcepoint 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%

Forcepoint
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Forcepoint in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Forcepoint in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Forcepoint in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Forcepoint.

Hourly rate trend for Forcepoint 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 Forcepoint 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 +43 9 £562 +24.83% 9
London +43 8 £575 -9.45% 6
Work from Home +26 5 £548 +21.67% 6
UK excluding London +45 2 £463 +2.78% 3
South East +28 1 £450 - 1
Scotland - 1 £475 -

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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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) Internet
2 4 (33.33%) Network Security
2 4 (33.33%) SSL
2 4 (33.33%) VPN
3 3 (25.00%) LAN
3 3 (25.00%) WAN
3 3 (25.00%) Wireless
4 2 (16.67%) IPsec
4 2 (16.67%) MPLS
4 2 (16.67%) VLAN
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (8.33%) FCoE
5 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (8.33%) iSCSI
5 1 (8.33%) NetScaler
5 1 (8.33%) NGFW
5 1 (8.33%) SAN
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Cyberattack
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (25.00%) Change Management
3 3 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (25.00%) Web Filtering
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Break/Fix
4 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Red Team
4 2 (16.67%) Server Management
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Threat Management
5 1 (8.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) CCNP
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CISSP
2 2 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (8.33%) CCNA
3 1 (8.33%) CCSA
3 1 (8.33%) CCSE
3 1 (8.33%) CCSK
3 1 (8.33%) CEH
3 1 (8.33%) CISM
3 1 (8.33%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) GIAC
3 1 (8.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (8.33%) SANS
3 1 (8.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) CASB
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) Arista
3 2 (16.67%) Barracuda Networks
3 2 (16.67%) Juniper
3 2 (16.67%) Meraki
3 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
4 1 (8.33%) 3PAR
4 1 (8.33%) Citrix
4 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (8.33%) F5
4 1 (8.33%) ForeScout
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) HP
4 1 (8.33%) Infoblox
4 1 (8.33%) Trend Micro