Sophos Contracts

Sophos
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Sophos products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sophos over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 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 Sophos PLC.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 523 623
Rank change year-on-year -29 +100 +192
Contract jobs citing Sophos 15 44 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% 0.11% 0.090%
As % of the Vendors category 0.096% 0.26% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 37 38
10th Percentile £159 £305 £276
25th Percentile £190 £375 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £206 £550 £356
Median % change year-on-year -62.50% +54.39% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £450
90th Percentile £635 £600 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £550 £356
% change year-on-year -63.64% +54.39% +34.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £29.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £31.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year - +69.86% +4.29%
75th Percentile - £32.50 £29.00
90th Percentile - - £46.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £31.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +77.14% -

All Vendors
UK

Sophos 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 15,672 17,070 23,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.27% 43.50% 44.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,566 10,703 15,433
10th Percentile £278 £281 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £704 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 810 863 651
10th Percentile £14.30 £13.65 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.62 £18.56
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% -30.00% +81.82%
75th Percentile £50.00 £61.60 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £27.50 £32.15
% change year-on-year -18.85% -14.46% +62.29%

Sophos
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sophos in the UK

Sophos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sophos in the UK

Sophos
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sophos over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sophos in the UK

Sophos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Sophos in the UK

Sophos
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sophos 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
England -5 9 £600 +9.09% 50
UK excluding London -32 9 £200 -63.64% 42
Work from Home +24 6 £200 -42.86% 18
London +11 5 £213 -39.29% 8
Wales - 5 £200 -
South West - 2 £600 - 5
South East - 2 £600 - 19

Sophos
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 2 (13.33%) Documentum
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (73.33%) Azure
3 7 (46.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (13.33%) Google Workspace
5 1 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Firewall
2 6 (40.00%) LAN
2 6 (40.00%) WAN
3 3 (20.00%) DHCP
3 3 (20.00%) DNS
3 3 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Electronics
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (13.33%) Marketing
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Support Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
2 5 (33.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Technical Support
2 5 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) 3rd Line Technical Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) 3rd Line Technical Support
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Migration Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Migration Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Mac OS X
2 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (13.33%) Windows 8
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (13.33%) Windows XP
3 1 (6.67%) Android
3 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (26.67%) Runbook
3 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (20.00%) SIEM
4 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
4 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 2 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Programme Management
4 2 (13.33%) RBAC
4 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
4 2 (13.33%) Server Management
4 2 (13.33%) Validation
5 1 (6.67%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CEH
2 1 (6.67%) CISM
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) vSphere
2 2 (13.33%) XenApp
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (13.33%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (13.33%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (6.67%) SCCM
3 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Cisco
2 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) McAfee
4 2 (13.33%) Adobe
4 2 (13.33%) Autodesk
4 2 (13.33%) Citrix
4 2 (13.33%) Dell
4 2 (13.33%) Draytek
4 2 (13.33%) EMC
4 2 (13.33%) Google
4 2 (13.33%) HP
4 2 (13.33%) NETGEAR
4 2 (13.33%) Sage
4 2 (13.33%) SAP
4 2 (13.33%) Symantec
4 2 (13.33%) Toshiba
4 2 (13.33%) VMware
4 2 (13.33%) WatchGuard
4 2 (13.33%) Webroot
4 2 (13.33%) Wyse