Proofpoint Contracts

Proofpoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Proofpoint products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Proofpoint over the 6 months to 23 April 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 Proofpoint, Inc.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 683 836
Rank change year-on-year +114 +153 -170
Contract jobs citing Proofpoint 22 24 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.040% 0.029%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.093% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 20
10th Percentile £413 £400 £443
25th Percentile £425 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £543
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +19.76% +14.26%
75th Percentile £497 - £700
90th Percentile £573 £810 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +46.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £22.36 - -
25th Percentile £22.90 - -
Median hourly rate £23.80 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

Proofpoint 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 18,621 25,856 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.66% 42.87% 39.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,553 17,300 23,547
10th Percentile £260 £271 £288
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £647 £630
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,098 716 897
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.00 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.08 £43.25 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.96% +105.95% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.12 £65.00 £45.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.88% -0.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Proofpoint in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Proofpoint in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proofpoint over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Proofpoint in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Proofpoint in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Proofpoint 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
England +116 20 £450 -30.77% 3
London +95 12 £450 -30.77% 2
UK excluding London - 8 £425 - 1
Work from Home +113 7 £425 -34.62% 2
East of England - 6 £425 - 1
North of England - 1 £390 -
North West - 1 £390 -
South East - 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (27.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (13.64%) IBM Domino
3 3 (13.64%) IBM Notes
3 3 (13.64%) IIS
4 1 (4.55%) Apache
4 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 12 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (27.27%) Mimecast
4 3 (13.64%) AWS
4 3 (13.64%) Entra ID
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
5 2 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (9.09%) Nutanix
5 2 (9.09%) PowerApps
5 2 (9.09%) Rubrik
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Stack
6 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.55%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) DNS
2 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) SAN
2 3 (13.64%) SMTP
2 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
2 3 (13.64%) Unified Communications
3 2 (9.09%) DKIM
3 2 (9.09%) DMARC
3 2 (9.09%) Extranet
3 2 (9.09%) Internet
3 2 (9.09%) LAN
3 2 (9.09%) NAS
3 2 (9.09%) VPN
3 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (9.09%) Wireless
4 1 (4.55%) Skype
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution
2 3 (13.64%) Legal
3 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (13.64%) Developer
1 3 (13.64%) IT Support
1 3 (13.64%) Messaging Engineer
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 3 (13.64%) SharePoint Developer
1 3 (13.64%) Support Officer
1 3 (13.64%) Unified Communications Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Analyst
2 2 (9.09%) Applications Specialist
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Consultant
2 2 (9.09%) Consultant
2 2 (9.09%) Exchange Consultant
2 2 (9.09%) Exchange Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Messaging Consultant
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
2 2 (9.09%) Senior
2 2 (9.09%) Senior Messaging Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Messaging Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) Security Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) CSS
1 3 (13.64%) HTML5 Canvas
1 3 (13.64%) jQuery
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (9.09%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.64%) PKI
3 2 (9.09%) Fat Client
3 2 (9.09%) Thin Client
3 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Migration
2 6 (27.27%) Capacity Management
2 6 (27.27%) Data Loss Prevention
2 6 (27.27%) ITIL
3 5 (22.73%) Kalman Filter
3 5 (22.73%) Project Delivery
3 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (13.64%) Agile
4 3 (13.64%) Change Control
4 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
4 3 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (13.64%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (13.64%) Patch Management
4 3 (13.64%) PRINCE2
4 3 (13.64%) Project Management
4 3 (13.64%) Security Hardening
4 3 (13.64%) Server Management
4 3 (13.64%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
1 3 (13.64%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
4 2 (9.09%) BitLocker
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (18.18%) SCCM
2 3 (13.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (13.64%) NetBackup
2 3 (13.64%) PingFederate
2 3 (13.64%) SCOM
2 3 (13.64%) SCVMM
3 2 (9.09%) VxRail
4 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
4 1 (4.55%) QRadar
4 1 (4.55%) SCOrch
4 1 (4.55%) Simpana
4 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) Cisco
2 6 (27.27%) Clearswift
3 4 (18.18%) VMware
4 3 (13.64%) Commvault
4 3 (13.64%) Dell
4 3 (13.64%) Dell Compellent
4 3 (13.64%) EMC
4 3 (13.64%) IBM
4 3 (13.64%) Lotus
4 3 (13.64%) MobileIron
4 3 (13.64%) Symantec
5 2 (9.09%) Avaya
5 2 (9.09%) Brocade
5 2 (9.09%) Equitrac
5 2 (9.09%) F5
5 2 (9.09%) Juniper
5 2 (9.09%) Mitel
5 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
5 2 (9.09%) Wyse