Forcepoint Contract Job Trends

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 25 October 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
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 539 617
Rank change year-on-year -17 +78 +136
Contract jobs citing Forcepoint 18 25 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.054% 0.068% 0.069%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 20
10th Percentile £445 £425 £413
25th Percentile £456 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £583
90th Percentile £550 £594 £604
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -67.17% -4.92%
75th Percentile - - £77.19
90th Percentile - - £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £72.50

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 16,036 16,574 21,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.68% 44.83% 45.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,943 9,756 13,892
10th Percentile £280 £291 £263
25th Percentile £405 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 816 542 685
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £14.79
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.85 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% -24.72% +79.95%
75th Percentile £38.80 £64.01 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £30.41 £41.50
% change year-on-year -27.66% -26.72% +94.84%

Forcepoint
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Forcepoint job vacancy trend in the UK

Forcepoint
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Forcepoint
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Forcepoint over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Forcepoint in the UK

Forcepoint
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Forcepoint
Top 5 Contract Job 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 25 October 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 -6 18 £475 -5.00% 1
London +7 13 £475 +5.56%
West Midlands -22 2 £525 -7.41% 1
Midlands -30 2 £525 -7.41% 1
UK excluding London -33 2 £525 +5.00% 1

Forcepoint
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 9 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) Network Security
2 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (11.11%) BGP
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) EIGRP
3 2 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (11.11%) IPv4
3 2 (11.11%) IPv6
3 2 (11.11%) LAN
3 2 (11.11%) MPLS
3 2 (11.11%) OSPF
3 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
3 2 (11.11%) VLAN
3 2 (11.11%) VXLAN
3 2 (11.11%) WAN
3 2 (11.11%) Wireless
3 2 (11.11%) WLAN
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Python Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) PowerShell Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) SOC Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Network Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) CSOC
3 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) SIEM
2 11 (61.11%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (61.11%) Security Operations
3 9 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 5 (27.78%) Blue Team
4 5 (27.78%) ITSM
4 5 (27.78%) Purple Team
4 5 (27.78%) Red Team
5 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (11.11%) Business Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
6 2 (11.11%) IT Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (27.78%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 3 (16.67%) CCIE
3 3 (16.67%) CCIE Security
3 3 (16.67%) CCNP
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.11%) CCSP
4 2 (11.11%) CISSP
4 2 (11.11%) JNCIE
4 2 (11.11%) JNCIP
4 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) CCSA
5 1 (5.56%) CCSE
5 1 (5.56%) CISM
5 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (16.67%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) CrowdStrike
2 7 (38.89%) Fortinet
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) Citrix
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco
4 3 (16.67%) Juniper
5 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 2 (11.11%) F5
5 2 (11.11%) Meraki
5 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
5 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
5 2 (11.11%) VMware
6 1 (5.56%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (5.56%) IBM
6 1 (5.56%) Okta
6 1 (5.56%) Oracle
6 1 (5.56%) Rapid7
6 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (5.56%) SAP
6 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow