Situational Awareness Contracts

Situational Awareness
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Situational Awareness skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Situational Awareness over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 585 677
Rank change year-on-year +83 +92 +86
Contract jobs citing Situational Awareness 18 13 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.030% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.035% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 23
10th Percentile £358 £453 £502
25th Percentile £363 £492 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% -5.22% +6.48%
75th Percentile £650 £741 £713
90th Percentile £654 £1,068 £767
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £481 £550
% change year-on-year -16.47% -12.50% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61.61
25th Percentile - - £65.47
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £71.92
75th Percentile - - £78.36
90th Percentile - - £82.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £90.00 - £71.92
% change year-on-year - - +25.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Situational Awareness falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,648 37,562 53,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.33% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,170 24,188 37,115
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,066 2,451 1,742
10th Percentile £14.35 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.26 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%

Situational Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Situational Awareness in the UK

Situational Awareness
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Situational Awareness in the UK

Situational Awareness
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Situational Awareness over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Situational Awareness in the UK

Situational Awareness
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Situational Awareness in the UK

Situational Awareness
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Situational Awareness within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 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 +59 17 £402 -26.24% 105
UK excluding London +70 16 £402 -16.47% 92
South East - 8 £650 - 28
North of England +27 6 £384 -20.21% 18
North West - 6 £384 - 8
Work from Home +47 3 £364 -25.33% 34
South West +40 1 - - 9
London +36 1 £358 -49.58% 24
Scotland - 1 £358 - 9

Situational Awareness
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 (38.89%) WebLogic
2 5 (27.78%) JBoss
2 5 (27.78%) Tomcat
2 5 (27.78%) WebSphere
3 2 (11.11%) Apache Solr
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) DB2
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Bitbucket
1 5 (27.78%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) Maven
2 2 (11.11%) Selenium
2 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.56%) Axure RP
3 1 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Military
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Scrum Master
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Agile Scrum Master
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Development Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Head of Design
5 1 (5.56%) Head of Security
5 1 (5.56%) Human Factors Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Scrum Master
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Training Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) REST
1 7 (38.89%) SOAP
1 7 (38.89%) Web Services
2 5 (27.78%) RAML
2 5 (27.78%) WSDL
3 3 (16.67%) EJB
3 3 (16.67%) J2EE
3 3 (16.67%) JSP
3 3 (16.67%) Servlets
3 3 (16.67%) Spring
3 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 2 (11.11%) Ajax
4 2 (11.11%) JAXB
4 2 (11.11%) JAX-RS
4 2 (11.11%) JAX-WS
4 2 (11.11%) JSON
4 2 (11.11%) React
4 2 (11.11%) XML
4 2 (11.11%) XSD
4 2 (11.11%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 5 (27.78%) Private Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.56%) SCADA
4 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) Scrum
2 9 (50.00%) SDLC
3 8 (44.44%) Backlog Management
3 8 (44.44%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 8 (44.44%) Budget Control
3 8 (44.44%) Conflict Resolution
3 8 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (44.44%) Servant Leadership
4 5 (27.78%) API Development
5 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Event Correlation
6 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
6 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Def Stans
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) ArcSight
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft