Rapid7 Contracts

Rapid7
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Rapid7 products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rapid7 over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 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 Rapid7 LLC.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 557 638
Rank change year-on-year +42 +81 +191
Contract jobs citing Rapid7 39 32 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.077% 0.083%
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% 0.18% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 27 36
10th Percentile £350 £267 £338
25th Percentile £416 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +66.40%
75th Percentile £528 £600 £613
90th Percentile £561 £653 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £438 £510
% change year-on-year +8.57% -14.22% +63.20%

All Vendors
UK

Rapid7 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 15,645 18,082 24,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.62% 43.32% 43.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,541 11,338 15,953
10th Percentile £280 £275 £263
25th Percentile £402 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £714 £729 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 782 1,020 666
10th Percentile £14.55 £12.85 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.02 £15.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -35.00% +81.82%
75th Percentile £50.00 £61.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £27.93
% change year-on-year -10.00% -10.49% +40.99%

Rapid7
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Rapid7 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Rapid7 in the UK

Rapid7
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Rapid7.

Daily rate trend for Rapid7 in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rapid7 over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Rapid7 in the UK

Rapid7
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rapid7 within the UK over the 6 months to 20 July 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 +54 33 £475 -5.00% 19
UK excluding London +48 17 £475 +8.57% 10
Work from Home +27 13 £475 +1.06% 11
London +34 11 £439 -12.30% 11
South East +40 9 £488 - 4
Midlands -3 3 £465 +78.85% 2
East Midlands - 3 £465 -
Scotland -1 2 £445 +48.33%
North West +3 1 - - 2
North of England -4 1 - - 3
East of England - 1 £475 -
South West - 1 £500 -

Rapid7
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:

Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) AWS
2 13 (33.33%) Azure
3 7 (17.95%) Power Platform
4 4 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (7.69%) GCP
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.13%) SaaS
6 2 (5.13%) Sumo Logic
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.56%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.56%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.56%) OCI
7 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Firewall
2 3 (7.69%) Network Security
3 2 (5.13%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.56%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.56%) WAN
4 1 (2.56%) Wireless
4 1 (2.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Power BI
2 5 (12.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Snyk
General
1 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Finance
3 1 (2.56%) Banking
3 1 (2.56%) Games
3 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (15.38%) Security Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) Vulnerability Specialist
3 3 (7.69%) Analyst
3 3 (7.69%) Lead
3 3 (7.69%) Security Specialist
4 2 (5.13%) Consultant
4 2 (5.13%) Management Consultant
4 2 (5.13%) Security Tester
4 2 (5.13%) Senior
4 2 (5.13%) SOC Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Tester
4 2 (5.13%) Vulnerability Consultant
4 2 (5.13%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
4 2 (5.13%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Architect
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Security Architect
5 1 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Vulnerability Analyst
5 1 (2.56%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.13%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) MISP
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.56%) CentOS
3 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Vulnerability Management
2 12 (30.77%) Cloud Security
2 12 (30.77%) SIEM
3 11 (28.21%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (28.21%) Security Operations
4 10 (25.64%) Information Security
5 7 (17.95%) IT Audit
6 6 (15.38%) Agile
6 6 (15.38%) Incident Response
6 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 6 (15.38%) Threat Intelligence
6 6 (15.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 5 (12.82%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (12.82%) Generative AI
7 5 (12.82%) Kanban
7 5 (12.82%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 4 (10.26%) Security Monitoring
8 4 (10.26%) Threat Detection
8 4 (10.26%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (2.56%) Java
4 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) CISSP
2 10 (25.64%) CISA
2 10 (25.64%) CISM
3 7 (17.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 5 (12.82%) Degree
5 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
6 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
7 2 (5.13%) GCIH
7 2 (5.13%) SANS
8 1 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (2.56%) CASP
8 1 (2.56%) CCSP
8 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.56%) CRISC
8 1 (2.56%) CSSLP
8 1 (2.56%) GCIA
8 1 (2.56%) GIAC
8 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (33.33%) NIST
2 12 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (17.95%) COBIT
3 7 (17.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 7 (17.95%) NIST 800
4 4 (10.26%) QA
5 2 (5.13%) SLA
6 1 (2.56%) GDPR
6 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Nessus
1 5 (12.82%) RSA Archer
2 3 (7.69%) QRadar
3 2 (5.13%) CASB
3 2 (5.13%) SCCM
4 1 (2.56%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) CSIRT
4 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.56%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 13 (33.33%) Qualys
1 13 (33.33%) Tenable
2 11 (28.21%) Microsoft
3 9 (23.08%) ServiceNow
4 6 (15.38%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (12.82%) Alteryx
5 5 (12.82%) Splunk
6 3 (7.69%) Carbon Black
6 3 (7.69%) Cisco
6 3 (7.69%) Palo Alto
6 3 (7.69%) Tanium
7 2 (5.13%) LogRhythm
7 2 (5.13%) Netskope
7 2 (5.13%) Proofpoint
7 2 (5.13%) Veracode
8 1 (2.56%) ArcSight
8 1 (2.56%) ESRI
8 1 (2.56%) Google
8 1 (2.56%) IBM
8 1 (2.56%) Remedy