Inversion of Control Contracts

Inversion of Control (IoC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Inversion of Control skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Inversion of Control over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 691 838
Rank change year-on-year +104 +147 -177
Contract jobs citing Inversion of Control 4 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.027% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.030% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 20
10th Percentile - £465 £508
25th Percentile £505 £469 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £875 £675
Median % change year-on-year -41.71% +29.63% +2.70%
75th Percentile £524 £925 £738
90th Percentile £540 - £824
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £494 £590
% change year-on-year +11.39% -16.31% +62.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Inversion of Control is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,683 54,210 80,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.89% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,351 37,527 56,743
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,790 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.07 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +86.50% -8.17%

Inversion of Control
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Inversion of Control in the UK

Inversion of Control
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inversion of Control.

Daily rate trend for Inversion of Control in the UK

Inversion of Control
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inversion of Control.

Hourly rate trend for Inversion of Control in the UK

Inversion of Control
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Inversion of Control within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
Work from Home +122 4 £510 +9.68% 10
England +103 1 £550 -37.14% 10
UK excluding London +54 1 £550 +11.39% 7
Midlands +36 1 £550 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £550 -

Inversion of Control
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 4 (100.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Incident Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (100.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (100.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 4 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) Use Case
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk