Sophos Contracts with Work from Home Options

Sophos
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sophos over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sophos PLC.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 443 582
Rank change year-on-year +105 +139 -99
Contract jobs citing Sophos 7 11 30
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.047% 0.045% 0.068%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.10% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 23
10th Percentile £345 £214 £172
25th Percentile £375 £228 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £325 £375
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -13.33% -16.20%
75th Percentile £775 £438 £472
90th Percentile - £508 £575
UK median daily rate £485 £390 £375
% change year-on-year +24.36% +4.00% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate £18.50 £17.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +5.71% - -4.76%

All Vendors
Work from Home

Sophos is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,247 10,646 17,395
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.32% 43.21% 39.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,941 7,170 11,845
10th Percentile £325 £330 £344
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £743 £720
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 244 256
10th Percentile £13.31 £17.50 £14.43
25th Percentile £16.50 £25.71 £19.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% +31.25% +53.96%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £56.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.25 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -

Sophos
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sophos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Sophos trend for jobs with a WFH option

Sophos
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sophos.

Sophos daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Sophos
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Sophos over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Sophos daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Sophos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) BigCommerce
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) MPLS
2 1 (14.29%) SNMP
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Marketing
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Desktop Support
1 2 (28.57%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) SOC Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (14.29%) IT Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Support Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Contingency Planning
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
2 2 (28.57%) B2B
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Acquisition
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Network Management
3 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
3 1 (14.29%) Security Patching
3 1 (14.29%) Service Design
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Samba
1 1 (14.29%) Terminal Server
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Rapid7
2 2 (28.57%) Adobe
2 2 (28.57%) Apple
2 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
2 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
2 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Sitecore
2 2 (28.57%) Veeam
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) NETGEAR
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 1 (14.29%) VMware