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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 550 647
Rank change year-on-year +14 +97 +150
Contract jobs citing Situational Awareness 31 17 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.043% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.051% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 16
10th Percentile - - £310
25th Percentile £358 £420 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £540 £538
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +0.47% +4.88%
75th Percentile £547 £594 £707
90th Percentile £631 £769 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £575 £533
% change year-on-year -19.13% +7.98% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.32
Median hourly rate - - £59.03
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +2.66%

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 29,972 33,531 47,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.45% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,760 21,562 32,735
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,662 1,890 1,565
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.15 £18.57
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.59 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £41.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -44.24% +3.13% +86.05%

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 August 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 11 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 August 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
UK excluding London +21 28 £465 -19.13% 22
England +37 22 £422 -24.26% 44
North of England - 10 £402 - 1
Scotland - 9 £492 - 1
North West - 7 £384 -
South East - 7 £650 - 12
Work from Home +21 4 £406 -3.45% 13
London +4 3 £400 -25.88% 26
Yorkshire - 3 £599 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £358 - 3
Midlands - 2 £358 - 5

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 9 (29.03%) JBoss
1 9 (29.03%) Tomcat
1 9 (29.03%) WebLogic
1 9 (29.03%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) DB2
2 1 (3.23%) Big Data
2 1 (3.23%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Bitbucket
1 9 (29.03%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 16 (51.61%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Military
4 3 (9.68%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Scrum Master
2 9 (29.03%) Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Security Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Agile Scrum Master
4 3 (9.68%) Programme Director
5 2 (6.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.23%) Applications Support Technician
6 1 (3.23%) Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Java Scrum Master
6 1 (3.23%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Applications Support
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Support Technician
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Technician
6 1 (3.23%) Services Director
6 1 (3.23%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Support Technician
6 1 (3.23%) Training Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) RAML
1 9 (29.03%) REST
1 9 (29.03%) SOAP
1 9 (29.03%) Web Services
1 9 (29.03%) WSDL
2 3 (9.68%) EJB
2 3 (9.68%) J2EE
2 3 (9.68%) JSP
2 3 (9.68%) Servlets
2 3 (9.68%) Spring
2 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (48.39%) Product Ownership
2 9 (29.03%) Private Cloud
3 4 (12.90%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (6.45%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.23%) PMI
5 1 (3.23%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
1 7 (22.58%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Agile
1 16 (51.61%) Conflict Resolution
1 16 (51.61%) Continuous Improvement
1 16 (51.61%) Scrum
1 16 (51.61%) Servant Leadership
2 14 (45.16%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 14 (45.16%) Budget Control
2 14 (45.16%) SDLC
3 13 (41.94%) Backlog Management
4 11 (35.48%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (29.03%) API Development
5 9 (29.03%) Incident Response
6 7 (22.58%) Event Correlation
6 7 (22.58%) OSINT
6 7 (22.58%) SIEM
7 5 (16.13%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 5 (16.13%) Open Source
7 5 (16.13%) Threat Intelligence
8 4 (12.90%) Risk Management
8 4 (12.90%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) Kusto Query Language
3 6 (19.35%) Java
4 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) DV Cleared
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) CASP
2 2 (6.45%) CISSP
2 2 (6.45%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) GCIA
2 2 (6.45%) GCIH
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.68%) GDPR
2 3 (9.68%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Oracle
2 6 (19.35%) ArcSight
3 3 (9.68%) Microsoft