SANS Contracts in the UK excluding London

SANS Institute
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 364 400 483
Rank change year-on-year +36 +83 -53
Contract jobs citing SANS 30 46 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.20% 0.052%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.41% 0.61% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 32 5
10th Percentile - £478 £491
25th Percentile £463 £609 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £800
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +55.64%
75th Percentile £688 £838 £825
90th Percentile £700 - £990
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,369 7,567 8,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.36% 32.71% 26.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,304 5,055 5,252
10th Percentile £270 £288 £260
25th Percentile £425 £424 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £706 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 600 533
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.89 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.81 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £68.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SANS in the UK excluding London

SANS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SANS in the UK excluding London

SANS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for SANS in the UK excluding London

SANS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SANS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SANS in the UK excluding London

SANS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South West +26 28 £500 - 2
Wales - 2 £666 -
SANS
UK

SANS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) AWS
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.33%) GCP
3 1 (3.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) MySQL
1 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Burp Suite
1 2 (6.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.33%) AppScan
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.33%) Finance
2 1 (3.33%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (3.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) Analyst
1 18 (60.00%) SOC Analyst
2 10 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Security Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Senior
4 1 (3.33%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) SIEM Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 24 (80.00%) CSOC
2 22 (73.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (90.00%) SIEM
2 26 (86.67%) Analytics
2 26 (86.67%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (86.67%) Use Case
3 25 (83.33%) Incident Response
4 24 (80.00%) Security Operations
4 24 (80.00%) Time Management
5 22 (73.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.67%) Application Security
6 2 (6.67%) Blue-Green Deployment
6 2 (6.67%) Containerisation
6 2 (6.67%) DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) Ethical Hacking
6 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (6.67%) OWASP
6 2 (6.67%) Project Management
6 2 (6.67%) Security Testing
6 2 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (6.67%) SOAR
6 2 (6.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) Bash
1 1 (3.33%) PHP
1 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.33%) Python
1 1 (3.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 26 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (80.00%) Degree
2 24 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) CEH
3 2 (6.67%) CREST Certified
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Ansible
1 2 (6.67%) Grafana
1 2 (6.67%) Graylog
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.67%) Nagios
1 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) HP Fortify
2 1 (3.33%) Nessus
2 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.33%) Puppet
2 1 (3.33%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (10.00%) Splunk
2 2 (6.67%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.33%) Veracode