IronPort Contracts

IronPort
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of IronPort products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IronPort over the 6 months to 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within IronPort Systems.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 690 830
Rank change year-on-year +132 +140 -141
Contract jobs citing IronPort 11 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.009% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.061% 0.020% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £232 - -
25th Percentile £288 £325 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £350 £563
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% -37.78% +16.58%
75th Percentile £389 £375 £594
90th Percentile £480 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £290 £350 £563
% change year-on-year -17.14% -37.78% +16.58%

All Vendors
UK

IronPort is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,079 24,403 35,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.43% 43.19% 40.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,270 16,323 23,440
10th Percentile £263 £273 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,125 660 880
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.24
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% +2.38%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.05
% change year-on-year -42.77% +96.90% +4.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IronPort in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IronPort in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IronPort over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IronPort in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IronPort in the UK

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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 IronPort within the UK over the 6 months to 24 May 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
England +107 10 £290 -17.14% 1
UK excluding London +51 7 £290 -17.14% 1
East of England - 7 £290 - 1
London +92 3 £221 -
Work from Home +121 2 £386 -

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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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) Exchange Server 2007
1 7 (63.64%) Exchange Server 2010
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (54.55%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (36.36%) CMS
3 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2000
4 3 (27.27%) Skype for Business
5 2 (18.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 5.5
6 1 (9.09%) IIS
6 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) SMTP
2 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 4 (36.36%) FTP
2 4 (36.36%) HTTP
2 4 (36.36%) SSL
3 3 (27.27%) Skype
General
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) SOC Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Junior
2 3 (27.27%) Junior Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Messaging Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Support
4 1 (9.09%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cyberattack
1 4 (36.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (18.18%) Blackberry
2 2 (18.18%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (27.27%) Windows 2000
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
1 4 (36.36%) Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Change Control
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
2 1 (9.09%) High Availability
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) ITIL
2 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
2 1 (9.09%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
2 1 (9.09%) Release Management
2 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) MCP
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) MCSE
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) MCSA
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) MAILsweeper
2 2 (18.18%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Symantec
2 4 (36.36%) Darktrace
2 4 (36.36%) FireEye
2 4 (36.36%) LogRhythm
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Splunk
3 3 (27.27%) Sophos
3 3 (27.27%) Trend Micro
4 2 (18.18%) EMC
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco
5 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
5 1 (9.09%) VMware