Symantec Contracts

Symantec
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Symantec products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Symantec over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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 the Symantec Corporation.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 520 626
Rank change year-on-year +43 +106 +54
Contract jobs citing Symantec 43 62 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.31% 0.34% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 51 68
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £504 £475 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £545
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% +9.00%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £600 £775 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £18.50

All Vendors
UK

Symantec 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 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

Symantec
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Symantec in the UK

Symantec
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Symantec in the UK

Symantec
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Symantec over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Symantec in the UK

Symantec
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Symantec in the UK

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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 Symantec within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +35 36 £550 -8.33% 28
UK excluding London +51 31 £575 -4.17% 15
South East +39 14 £575 -4.96% 3
London +30 8 £419 -37.89% 15
North West +19 5 £425 -26.09% 1
North of England +18 5 £425 -26.09% 1
South West - 5 £425 - 2
Work from Home +31 4 £544 +14.42% 5
Scotland +15 4 £496 -5.52% 1
East of England +29 2 - - 6
Midlands +12 1 £550 -18.52% 3
West Midlands +10 1 £550 -26.67% 2

Symantec
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 16 (37.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (11.63%) CMS
2 5 (11.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.65%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (32.56%) AWS
2 10 (23.26%) Azure
2 10 (23.26%) GCP
2 10 (23.26%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (20.93%) IaaS
3 9 (20.93%) OpenShift
3 9 (20.93%) PaaS
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 18 (41.86%) DNS
2 13 (30.23%) Firewall
3 11 (25.58%) DHCP
3 11 (25.58%) SMTP
4 10 (23.26%) VPN
5 5 (11.63%) VSAN
6 4 (9.30%) WLAN
7 3 (6.98%) HTTP
7 3 (6.98%) LAN
7 3 (6.98%) Network Security
7 3 (6.98%) SAN
8 2 (4.65%) FTP
8 2 (4.65%) SSL
8 2 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (4.65%) Wireless
9 1 (2.33%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (2.33%) IP Telephony
9 1 (2.33%) Softphone
9 1 (2.33%) VoIP
9 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (20.93%) Big Data
1 9 (20.93%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Subversion
3 1 (2.33%) MSI
General
1 9 (20.93%) Public Sector
2 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Finance
5 2 (4.65%) Law
5 2 (4.65%) Legal
5 2 (4.65%) Publishing
6 1 (2.33%) Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 11 (25.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (18.60%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Support Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Administrator
6 4 (9.30%) Analyst
6 4 (9.30%) Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Industrial Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (6.98%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Architect
8 2 (4.65%) SOC Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) FastAPI
1 2 (4.65%) LDAP
1 2 (4.65%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.91%) Clustering
2 10 (23.26%) Data Centre
2 10 (23.26%) PKI
3 3 (6.98%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.65%) Cyberattack
4 2 (4.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.65%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.33%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (79.07%) Windows
2 24 (55.81%) Linux
3 21 (48.84%) Windows Server
4 12 (27.91%) Windows 10
5 10 (23.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (16.28%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (13.95%) Mac OS
8 4 (9.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (4.65%) Android
9 2 (4.65%) Apple iOS
9 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (4.65%) Solaris
9 2 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) DevOps
1 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (25.58%) Software Deployment
3 9 (20.93%) Artificial Intelligence
3 9 (20.93%) Data Loss Prevention
3 9 (20.93%) ITIL
3 9 (20.93%) Machine Learning
4 7 (16.28%) Migration
5 6 (13.95%) Agile
5 6 (13.95%) Incident Response
5 6 (13.95%) Roadmaps
6 5 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (11.63%) High Availability
6 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.63%) Project Management
6 5 (11.63%) Task Automation
7 4 (9.30%) Business Continuity
7 4 (9.30%) Cloud Security
7 4 (9.30%) Project Delivery
8 3 (6.98%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 18 (41.86%) PowerShell
2 5 (11.63%) Python
3 2 (4.65%) Bash
3 2 (4.65%) Perl
3 2 (4.65%) VB
3 2 (4.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (51.16%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.58%) Degree
3 10 (23.26%) DV Cleared
4 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
5 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (4.65%) MCP
6 2 (4.65%) MCSA
6 2 (4.65%) MCSE
7 1 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.33%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) NCSC
2 2 (4.65%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (51.16%) Active Directory
2 16 (37.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (27.91%) Docker
3 12 (27.91%) Hyper-V
3 12 (27.91%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (25.58%) BitLocker
4 11 (25.58%) Microsoft App-V
5 9 (20.93%) Terminal Services
6 7 (16.28%) vSphere
7 2 (4.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (2.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (34.88%) vCenter Server
2 13 (30.23%) Kubernetes
3 11 (25.58%) Ansible
4 9 (20.93%) Nagios
4 9 (20.93%) Puppet
4 9 (20.93%) vMotion
5 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (16.28%) Norton AntiVirus
6 6 (13.95%) SCCM
7 4 (9.30%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 3 (6.98%) Backup Exec
8 3 (6.98%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (6.98%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (6.98%) Terraform
8 3 (6.98%) WSUS
9 2 (4.65%) AirWatch
9 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (4.65%) RSA Archer
9 2 (4.65%) SELinux
9 2 (4.65%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 27 (62.79%) Microsoft
2 22 (51.16%) VMware
3 11 (25.58%) HP
4 10 (23.26%) Google
5 9 (20.93%) Cisco
5 9 (20.93%) Citrix
5 9 (20.93%) McAfee
6 6 (13.95%) Splunk
7 5 (11.63%) SolarWinds
8 4 (9.30%) Juniper
8 4 (9.30%) Oracle
9 3 (6.98%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (6.98%) FireEye
9 3 (6.98%) Netskope
9 3 (6.98%) Proofpoint
9 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
9 3 (6.98%) Veeam
10 2 (4.65%) Darktrace
10 2 (4.65%) iManage
10 2 (4.65%) Intapp