SANS Contracts in England

SANS Institute
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SANS qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 555 719
Rank change year-on-year +73 +164 -140
Contract jobs citing SANS 49 91 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.19% 0.082%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.44% 0.68% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 59 43
10th Percentile - £520 £455
25th Percentile £463 £613 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £688
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +1.82% -2.31%
75th Percentile £770 £750 £763
90th Percentile £825 £838 £770
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £666
% change year-on-year -3.57% +5.07% -4.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £62.75 -
25th Percentile - £65.19 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £66.90
Median % change year-on-year - +12.11% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £71.50
90th Percentile - £77.63 £75.10
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £66.90
% change year-on-year - +12.11% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

SANS is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications 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 academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,179 13,347 15,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.71% 27.54% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,938 8,950 10,232
10th Percentile £313 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 970 675 686
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.35 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.00 £19.02
Median hourly rate £40.00 £53.35 £40.93
Median % change year-on-year -25.02% +30.35% +9.14%
75th Percentile £62.28 £68.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.30
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -27.27% +25.14% +21.73%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SANS in England

SANS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SANS in England

SANS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SANS in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SANS in England

SANS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SANS in England.

Hourly rate trend for SANS in England

SANS
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 SANS within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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 West +26 28 £500 - 2
London +65 21 £750 - 9
SANS
UK

SANS
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.04%) Apache
1 1 (2.04%) Confluence
1 1 (2.04%) IIS
1 1 (2.04%) WebLogic
1 1 (2.04%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.20%) AWS
1 5 (10.20%) Azure
2 2 (4.08%) GCP
2 2 (4.08%) GitHub
2 2 (4.08%) IaaS
2 2 (4.08%) SaaS
3 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) Network Security
1 3 (6.12%) SAN
1 3 (6.12%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.08%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (4.08%) DHCP
2 2 (4.08%) DNS
2 2 (4.08%) Firewall
3 1 (2.04%) FTP
3 1 (2.04%) HTTP
3 1 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.04%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.04%) VLAN
3 1 (2.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) MySQL
1 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.04%) CouchDB
2 1 (2.04%) DB2
2 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.04%) Redis
2 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
1 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.04%) AppScan
2 1 (2.04%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.04%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.04%) Darcs
2 1 (2.04%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.04%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Mercurial
2 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.04%) Subversion
2 1 (2.04%) Travis CI
General
1 14 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.08%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (2.04%) Police
4 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Analyst
1 18 (36.73%) SOC Analyst
2 15 (30.61%) Architect
3 14 (28.57%) Security Architect
4 10 (20.41%) SOC Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Domain Architect
6 3 (6.12%) CISSP Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Security Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Senior
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Security Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Security Analyst
8 1 (2.04%) CyberArk Consultant
8 1 (2.04%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (4.08%) Regular Expression
2 1 (2.04%) .NET
2 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.04%) CSS
2 1 (2.04%) EJB
2 1 (2.04%) HTML
2 1 (2.04%) J2EE
2 1 (2.04%) JSP
2 1 (2.04%) LDAP
2 1 (2.04%) React
2 1 (2.04%) REST
2 1 (2.04%) Servlets
2 1 (2.04%) Svelte
2 1 (2.04%) Web Services
2 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (48.98%) CSOC
2 23 (46.94%) Security Operations Centre
3 7 (14.29%) PKI
3 7 (14.29%) Public Cloud
4 5 (10.20%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.08%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.04%) CBDC
6 1 (2.04%) Digital Currency
6 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Windows
2 2 (4.08%) Linux
3 1 (2.04%) Mac OS X
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (73.47%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (63.27%) SIEM
3 27 (55.10%) Use Case
4 26 (53.06%) Analytics
4 26 (53.06%) Incident Response
4 26 (53.06%) Time Management
5 25 (51.02%) Security Operations
6 22 (44.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (28.57%) Security Architecture
8 13 (26.53%) Risk Management
9 11 (22.45%) Enterprise Architecture
10 9 (18.37%) Agile
11 8 (16.33%) Cloud Security
12 6 (12.24%) Risk Assessment
12 6 (12.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 6 (12.24%) TOGAF
13 5 (10.20%) Information Security
14 4 (8.16%) Architectural Design
14 4 (8.16%) SABSA
14 4 (8.16%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.20%) Python
2 3 (6.12%) Bash
2 3 (6.12%) SQL
3 2 (4.08%) Java
4 1 (2.04%) C
4 1 (2.04%) C#
4 1 (2.04%) C++
4 1 (2.04%) Go
4 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.04%) Perl
4 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.04%) Rust
4 1 (2.04%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 28 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 27 (55.10%) Degree
3 24 (48.98%) DV Cleared
4 18 (36.73%) CISSP
5 12 (24.49%) CISM
6 10 (20.41%) CRISC
7 8 (16.33%) CISA
8 6 (12.24%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (10.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (10.20%) CEH
9 5 (10.20%) GIAC
10 4 (8.16%) CCSK
10 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
11 2 (4.08%) CCSP
11 2 (4.08%) CREST Certified
11 2 (4.08%) FFIEC
11 2 (4.08%) RHCE
12 1 (2.04%) ECIH
12 1 (2.04%) ECSA
12 1 (2.04%) GAWN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) NIST
2 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.16%) NIST 800
3 2 (4.08%) GDPR
3 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (2.04%) GRC
4 1 (2.04%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Ansible
1 2 (4.08%) Grafana
1 2 (4.08%) Host Intrusion Detection System
1 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
1 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
1 2 (4.08%) Puppet
1 2 (4.08%) Terraform
2 1 (2.04%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (2.04%) CSIRT
2 1 (2.04%) Graylog
2 1 (2.04%) HP Fortify
2 1 (2.04%) Kibana
2 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) logstash
2 1 (2.04%) Nagios
2 1 (2.04%) Nessus
2 1 (2.04%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 3 (6.12%) Cisco
1 3 (6.12%) Splunk
2 2 (4.08%) AlienVault
2 2 (4.08%) ArcSight
2 2 (4.08%) Carbon Black
2 2 (4.08%) LogRhythm
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle
2 2 (4.08%) Symantec
3 1 (2.04%) Checkmarx
3 1 (2.04%) CyberArk
3 1 (2.04%) Google
3 1 (2.04%) Veracode