ForeScout Contract Job Trends

ForeScout
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of ForeScout products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ForeScout over the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, 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 ForeScout Technologies, Inc.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 530 596
Rank change year-on-year -64 +66 +121
Contract jobs citing ForeScout 12 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.029% 0.007% 0.011%
As % of the Vendors category 0.066% 0.014% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £475 £548 -
25th Percentile £507 £585 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £657 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.85% - -
75th Percentile £572 £718 -
90th Percentile £575 £746 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 - -

All Vendors
UK

ForeScout 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 18,176 14,311 19,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.58% 46.55% 43.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,650 8,642 12,143
10th Percentile £303 £280 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -0.94%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £711 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 419 946
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year -17.44% +7.78% -22.47%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% +4.33% -16.13%

ForeScout
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ForeScout job vacancy trend in the UK

ForeScout
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

ForeScout
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ForeScout over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ForeScout in the UK

ForeScout
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 ForeScout within the UK over the 6 months to 22 February 2026. 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 -63 9 £550 -16.29% 26
UK excluding London - 7 £520 - 29
South West - 6 £520 - 3
Work from Home -13 5 £508 -7.47% 2
London -33 2 £550 +0.27% 5
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -
North of England - 1 £650 - 8

ForeScout
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 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) Network Security
2 9 (75.00%) Firewall
3 8 (66.67%) DHCP
3 8 (66.67%) HTTPS
3 8 (66.67%) Wireless
4 4 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (16.67%) TACACS
5 2 (16.67%) VLAN
6 1 (8.33%) BGP
6 1 (8.33%) LAN
6 1 (8.33%) OSPF
6 1 (8.33%) VPN
6 1 (8.33%) WAN
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (8.33%) Architect
1 1 (8.33%) Lead
1 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) IoT
2 2 (16.67%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Zero Trust
2 9 (75.00%) Network Segmentation
2 9 (75.00%) Security Architecture
3 8 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 8 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
3 8 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (16.67%) Change Control
4 2 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) RBAC
4 2 (16.67%) SIEM
4 2 (16.67%) Validation
5 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (8.33%) People Management
5 1 (8.33%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (8.33%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (8.33%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) CCIE
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco
2 3 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (8.33%) VMware