Web Filtering Contracts

Web Filtering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Web Filtering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Filtering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 572 692
Rank change year-on-year +64 +120 +138
Contract jobs citing Web Filtering 12 10 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.023% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.027% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 21
10th Percentile £222 £371 -
25th Percentile £288 £430 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £488 £385
Median % change year-on-year -37.18% +26.62% -9.41%
75th Percentile £319 £548 £475
90th Percentile £428 £591 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £431 £405
% change year-on-year -30.43% +6.48% +96.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £63.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Web Filtering 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Web Filtering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Filtering in the UK

Web Filtering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Web Filtering in the UK

Web Filtering
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Web Filtering in the UK

Web Filtering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Filtering in the UK

Web Filtering
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 Web Filtering 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 +60 10 £306 -37.18% 19
UK excluding London +65 5 £300 -30.43% 19
London +40 5 £313 -48.98% 4
South East +46 3 £163 -62.32% 5
Work from Home +40 3 - - 13
North of England - 2 £300 - 5
North East - 2 £300 -

Web Filtering
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 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) VPN
2 5 (41.67%) Firewall
3 4 (33.33%) WAN
4 3 (25.00%) SSL
5 2 (16.67%) DNS
5 2 (16.67%) Internet
5 2 (16.67%) LAN
5 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (8.33%) DHCP
6 1 (8.33%) FCoE
6 1 (8.33%) IPsec
6 1 (8.33%) MPLS
6 1 (8.33%) NGFW
6 1 (8.33%) SAN
6 1 (8.33%) Wireless
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Field Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Network Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Security Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) WAN Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) IoT
1 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 3 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (8.33%) Android
4 1 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
2 4 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (16.67%) Business Case
4 2 (16.67%) Data Security
4 2 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 2 (16.67%) Server Management
5 1 (8.33%) Adaptive Security
5 1 (8.33%) Architecture Governance
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (8.33%) Email Filtering
5 1 (8.33%) High Availability
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
5 1 (8.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (8.33%) Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Security Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 3 (25.00%) Forcepoint
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (16.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (8.33%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (8.33%) D-Link
5 1 (8.33%) F5
5 1 (8.33%) Juniper
5 1 (8.33%) Meraki
5 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (8.33%) Veeam
5 1 (8.33%) VMware
5 1 (8.33%) WatchGuard
5 1 (8.33%) Zscaler