Boundary Protection Contracts

Boundary Protection
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 705 838
Rank change year-on-year +120 +133 -159
Contract jobs citing Boundary Protection 9 11 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.018% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.020% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 10
10th Percentile £528 - £487
25th Percentile £550 £563 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £650 £794 £800
90th Percentile £673 £1,053 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £750
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Boundary Protection
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Boundary Protection in the UK

Boundary Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Boundary Protection in the UK

Boundary Protection
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Boundary Protection over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Boundary Protection in the UK

Boundary Protection
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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
England +115 9 £600 - 1
UK excluding London +66 9 £600 - 1
South East - 8 £525 -
Work from Home +121 2 £600 -
South West +8 1 £675 +12.50% 1

Boundary Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Junos
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) SDH
1 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Robot Framework
1 7 (77.78%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
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%) 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%) API Management
3 1 (11.11%) ArchiMate
3 1 (11.11%) Change Advisory Board
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Log Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Release Automation
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%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (11.11%) HP ASE
2 1 (11.11%) JNCIA
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) RMADS
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
1 8 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 7 (77.78%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) BMC
3 1 (11.11%) Ciena
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (11.11%) EMC
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Juniper
3 1 (11.11%) Nokia
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 1 (11.11%) Remedy
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow