Boundary Protection Contracts in England

Boundary Protection
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Boundary Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Boundary Protection over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 629 764
Rank change year-on-year +105 +135 -120
Contract jobs citing Boundary Protection 9 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.025% 0.023% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.025% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £516 - £475
25th Percentile £522 £563 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -13.21%
75th Percentile £547 £794 £663
90th Percentile £549 £1,053 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £750
% change year-on-year -10.42% -20.00% +13.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Boundary Protection is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,438 43,665 64,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.37% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,640 45,549
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,250 1,536 1,740
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.96 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +48.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Boundary Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Boundary Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Boundary Protection in England

Boundary Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Boundary Protection in England.

Daily rate trend for Boundary Protection in England

Boundary Protection
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Boundary Protection within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East - 9 £538 - 1
Boundary Protection
UK

Boundary Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) SDH
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Robot Framework
1 7 (77.78%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Architect
2 7 (77.78%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
1 7 (77.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Service Management
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) Application Security
2 7 (77.78%) Scrum
2 7 (77.78%) Security Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) ArchiMate
3 1 (11.11%) B2C
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Log Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (11.11%) Release Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) PowerShell
2 7 (77.78%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) RMADS
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 7 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 7 (77.78%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) BMC
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Ericsson
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Nokia
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) Remedy
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow