SevOne Contract Job Trends

SevOne
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of SevOne products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SevOne over the 6 months leading up to 23 January 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 SevOne, Inc.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 519 568
Rank change year-on-year -61 +49 +175
Contract jobs citing SevOne 4 10 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.032% 0.028%
As % of the Vendors category 0.023% 0.069% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £485 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - £580
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.77%
75th Percentile £610 - -
90th Percentile £679 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £595 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £32.60
25th Percentile - - £33.51
Median hourly rate - £38.00 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year - +5.50% -
75th Percentile - - £37.53
90th Percentile - - £37.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

SevOne 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 17,397 14,533 19,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.88% 45.86% 43.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,221 8,607 12,058
10th Percentile £300 £283 £252
25th Percentile £411 £409 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 429 822
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.15
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% -20.29% +8.12%
75th Percentile £48.75 £61.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.02 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.30 £25.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year -14.80% -27.54% +32.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

SevOne job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SevOne over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SevOne in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SevOne.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SevOne

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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 SevOne within the UK over the 6 months to 23 January 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 -53 4 £490 - 3
North of England -60 3 £595 - 1
UK excluding London -65 3 £595 - 1
Yorkshire -52 2 £700 -
Work from Home -13 1 - - 1
North West -36 1 £490 - 1
London - 1 £490 - 2

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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 (50.00%) IBM Watson
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BIG-IP
1 2 (50.00%) DWDM
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) MPLS
1 2 (50.00%) Multicast
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Core Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) RSA SecurID
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
1 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) NetScout
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) Arista
3 2 (50.00%) F5
3 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 2 (50.00%) Infoblox
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (50.00%) Splunk