Sysdig Contract Job Trends

Sysdig
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Sysdig skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Sysdig 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.037% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Sysdig falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,372 5,275 6,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.31% 13.97% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,526 3,461 4,924
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £410 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £656
90th Percentile £675 £723 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -2.00% -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 58 173
10th Percentile £14.80 £20.72 £18.65
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.90 £37.55
Median hourly rate £26.00 £36.83 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -33.03% +130.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £61.88 £76.00
90th Percentile £67.10 £74.61 £78.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £37.08 £47.83
% change year-on-year -42.32% -22.47% +117.41%

Sysdig
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Sysdig job vacancy trend in the UK

Sysdig
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Sysdig
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sysdig within the UK over the 6 months to 12 October 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
South East - 2 £500 - 1
England - 2 £500 - 1
UK excluding London - 2 £500 - 1

Sysdig
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 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform