Sophos Contracts in the West Midlands

Sophos
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sophos over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 133 174
Rank change year-on-year +25 +41 -
Contract jobs citing Sophos 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.26% 0.13% 0.056%
As % of the Vendors category 0.59% 0.26% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - £388 -
25th Percentile £255 £393 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £400 £135
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% +196.30% -
75th Percentile £700 £436 -
90th Percentile £745 £458 -
England median daily rate £448 £350 £363
% change year-on-year +27.86% -3.45% -20.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.95 - -
England median hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +5.71% -4.76%

All Vendors
West Midlands

Sophos is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 845 1,154 1,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 43.87% 48.98% 42.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 729 1,053
10th Percentile £255 £210 £198
25th Percentile £343 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £520 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -2.80% +1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 30 35
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.23 £12.43
25th Percentile £13.19 £15.13 £14.75
Median hourly rate £18.39 £19.60 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% +13.44% -4.00%
75th Percentile £27.42 £52.06 £20.51
90th Percentile £54.05 £69.15 £23.75
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -41.56% +83.33% -

Sophos
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Sophos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Sophos in the West Midlands

Sophos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Sophos in the West Midlands

Sophos
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sophos in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sophos in the West Midlands

Sophos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Sophos in the West Midlands

Sophos
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sophos within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Birmingham +16 3 £700 +79.49%
Wednesbury - 2 £260 -
Sophos
England

Sophos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (40.00%) Mimecast
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Advertising
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SOC Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Contingency Planning
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
1 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (20.00%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Server Management
2 1 (20.00%) Server Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Server Virtualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Rapid7
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Commvault
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) VMware