SANS Contracts in London

SANS Institute
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 365 430 573
Rank change year-on-year +65 +143 -113
Contract jobs citing SANS 21 57 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.22% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 1.00% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 42 38
10th Percentile £651 £604 £450
25th Percentile £675 £700 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £688
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £825 £831 £742
90th Percentile - £838 £770
England median daily rate £675 £700 £688
% change year-on-year -3.57% +1.82% -2.31%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,139 5,680 6,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.68% 21.83% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,814 3,859 4,665
10th Percentile £325 £363 £369
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 80 152
10th Percentile £14.19 £19.32 £24.77
25th Percentile £19.98 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.00 £42.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -5.06% +21.92%
75th Percentile £42.75 £64.63 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.23 £87.50 £66.57
England median hourly rate £40.00 £53.35 £40.93
% change year-on-year -25.02% +30.35% +9.14%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SANS in London

SANS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SANS in London

SANS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for SANS in London

SANS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SANS within the London 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
East London -9 3 £770 +2.67% 2
Central London +38 2 £645 -6.18% 2
SANS
England

SANS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
1 1 (4.76%) IIS
1 1 (4.76%) WebLogic
1 1 (4.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) AWS
1 3 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) GCP
2 2 (9.52%) GitHub
2 2 (9.52%) IaaS
2 2 (9.52%) SaaS
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Network Security
1 3 (14.29%) SAN
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (9.52%) DHCP
2 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.76%) FTP
3 1 (4.76%) HTTP
3 1 (4.76%) tcpdump
3 1 (4.76%) VLAN
3 1 (4.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) MySQL
1 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.76%) CouchDB
2 1 (4.76%) DB2
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.76%) Redis
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) AppScan
2 1 (4.76%) Burp Suite
2 1 (4.76%) CircleCI
2 1 (4.76%) Darcs
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Jaeger
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Mercurial
2 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.76%) Subversion
2 1 (4.76%) Travis CI
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Architect
2 14 (66.67%) Security Architect
3 6 (28.57%) Domain Architect
4 3 (14.29%) CISSP Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Security Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Information Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Information Security Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Security Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (9.52%) Regular Expression
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.76%) CSS
2 1 (4.76%) EJB
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) J2EE
2 1 (4.76%) JSP
2 1 (4.76%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) React
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) Servlets
2 1 (4.76%) Svelte
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
2 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) PKI
1 7 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 5 (23.81%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.52%) Cyberattack
4 1 (4.76%) CBDC
4 1 (4.76%) Digital Currency
4 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 13 (61.90%) Risk Management
3 11 (52.38%) Enterprise Architecture
4 10 (47.62%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (42.86%) Agile
6 8 (38.10%) Cloud Security
7 6 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
7 6 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (28.57%) TOGAF
8 5 (23.81%) Information Security
9 4 (19.05%) Architectural Design
9 4 (19.05%) SABSA
9 4 (19.05%) SIEM
9 4 (19.05%) Threat Modelling
10 2 (9.52%) Application Security
10 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
10 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
10 2 (9.52%) DevOps
10 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
10 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Bash
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) C
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) C++
4 1 (4.76%) Go
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Perl
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (85.71%) CISSP
2 12 (57.14%) CISM
3 10 (47.62%) CRISC
4 8 (38.10%) CISA
5 6 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (23.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 5 (23.81%) GIAC
7 4 (19.05%) CCSK
8 3 (14.29%) CEH
8 3 (14.29%) Degree
9 2 (9.52%) CCSP
9 2 (9.52%) FFIEC
9 2 (9.52%) RHCE
9 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
9 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
10 1 (4.76%) CCFP
10 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (4.76%) ECIH
10 1 (4.76%) ECSA
10 1 (4.76%) GAWN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) NIST
2 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (19.05%) NIST 800
3 2 (9.52%) GDPR
3 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (4.76%) GRC
4 1 (4.76%) ISO 20022
4 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Ansible
1 2 (9.52%) Grafana
1 2 (9.52%) Host Intrusion Detection System
1 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
1 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
1 2 (9.52%) Puppet
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (4.76%) CSIRT
2 1 (4.76%) Graylog
2 1 (4.76%) HP Fortify
2 1 (4.76%) Kibana
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) logstash
2 1 (4.76%) Nagios
2 1 (4.76%) Nessus
2 1 (4.76%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Cisco
2 2 (9.52%) AlienVault
2 2 (9.52%) ArcSight
2 2 (9.52%) Carbon Black
2 2 (9.52%) LogRhythm
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) Splunk
2 2 (9.52%) Symantec
3 1 (4.76%) Checkmarx
3 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Veracode