Tigerscheme Contracts

Tigerscheme
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Tigerscheme qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 - 685
Rank change year-on-year - - +148
Contract jobs citing Tigerscheme 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% - 0.004%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.088% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.86%
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Tigerscheme falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,093 12,848 15,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.18% 29.95% 27.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,683 8,002 10,190
10th Percentile £275 £310 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 527 1,096 751
10th Percentile £17.84 £13.86 £14.57
25th Percentile £21.86 £18.10 £21.24
Median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -27.27% +24.36%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.13 £68.75
90th Percentile £78.38 £75.75 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.18 £40.97 £52.50
% change year-on-year -21.45% -21.96% +50.00%

Tigerscheme
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Tigerscheme in the UK

Tigerscheme
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Tigerscheme in the UK

Tigerscheme
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tigerscheme within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
London - 8 £663 - 2
England - 8 £663 - 2
Work from Home - 2 £650 - 2

Tigerscheme
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) GitHub
2 7 (87.50%) GCP
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 8 (100.00%) Metasploit
1 8 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 8 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 8 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (100.00%) OWASP
1 8 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 8 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 8 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 8 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 8 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 7 (87.50%) Cloud Security
2 7 (87.50%) Ethical Hacking
2 7 (87.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 6 (75.00%) SDLC
4 5 (62.50%) Data Protection
4 5 (62.50%) Threat Modelling
5 4 (50.00%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Bash
1 8 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 8 (100.00%) OSCP
2 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
3 6 (75.00%) CHECK Team Member
3 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) NCSC
2 5 (62.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (62.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Veracode