Sophos Contracts in the UK excluding London

Sophos
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 411 476
Rank change year-on-year +56 +65 -49
Contract jobs citing Sophos 37 24 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.41% 0.24% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 24
10th Percentile £345 £278 £134
25th Percentile £375 £286 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £350 £286
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% +22.27% -11.92%
75th Percentile £575 £400 £400
90th Percentile - £405 £564
UK median daily rate £550 £390 £350
% change year-on-year +41.03% +11.43% -13.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £16.62 - -
25th Percentile £17.18 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.73 £17.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £19.65 £18.75 £19.38
90th Percentile £19.83 - £19.75
UK median hourly rate £18.73 £17.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +7.00% - -4.76%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,932 10,208 12,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.35% 44.94% 40.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,326 6,964 8,443
10th Percentile £210 £205 £188
25th Percentile £375 £363 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £660
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 997 432 640
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.67% +92.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59.57 £60.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +7.50%

Sophos
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Sophos in the UK excluding London

Sophos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Sophos in the UK excluding London

Sophos
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sophos in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sophos in the UK excluding London

Sophos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Sophos in the UK excluding London

Sophos
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 Sophos within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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 of England +13 18 £550 +84.87% 10
North of England +32 13 £400 +28.00% 11
North West +20 12 £400 +28.00% 4
Midlands +21 3 £260 -27.27% 8
West Midlands +14 3 £260 -34.18% 4
South East +12 3 £375 -6.25% 5
South West +12 1 £425 -22.73% 1
North East - 1 £300 - 2
Sophos
UK

Sophos
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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (51.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.81%) SharePoint
3 3 (8.11%) Exchange Server 2000
3 3 (8.11%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (8.11%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (8.11%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (8.11%) Exchange Server 2013
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (32.43%) Azure
3 9 (24.32%) Mimecast
4 7 (18.92%) AWS
5 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
6 4 (10.81%) GCP
7 2 (5.41%) BigCommerce
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.70%) IaaS
8 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.70%) PaaS
8 1 (2.70%) SaaS
8 1 (2.70%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 16 (43.24%) SMTP
2 4 (10.81%) Firewall
3 3 (8.11%) VPN
4 2 (5.41%) LAN
4 2 (5.41%) WAN
5 1 (2.70%) DNS
5 1 (2.70%) SAN
5 1 (2.70%) Skype
5 1 (2.70%) VLAN
5 1 (2.70%) VoIP
5 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Hudson
General
1 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Advertising
2 2 (5.41%) Marketing
2 2 (5.41%) Retail
3 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Messaging Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Lead
4 4 (10.81%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (5.41%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Desktop Support
6 2 (5.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Technologist
7 1 (2.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Head of Infrastructure
7 1 (2.70%) Security Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Service Desk Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.70%) Clustering
1 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
1 1 (2.70%) PKI
1 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (67.57%) Windows
2 16 (43.24%) Windows Server
3 5 (13.51%) Mac OS
4 4 (10.81%) Apple iOS
4 4 (10.81%) Linux
4 4 (10.81%) Windows 10
5 3 (8.11%) Windows 2000
5 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (10.81%) Migration
2 4 (10.81%) Open Source
3 2 (5.41%) Asset Management
3 2 (5.41%) B2B
3 2 (5.41%) Customer Acquisition
3 2 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (5.41%) Identity Management
3 2 (5.41%) ITIL
3 2 (5.41%) Mentoring
3 2 (5.41%) Patch Management
3 2 (5.41%) Service Design
3 2 (5.41%) SOAR
4 1 (2.70%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (2.70%) Customer Service
4 1 (2.70%) Decision-Making
4 1 (2.70%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (2.70%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (2.70%) Server Management
4 1 (2.70%) Server Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (43.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (37.84%) DV Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) MCP
4 2 (5.41%) Degree
5 1 (2.70%) CCNA
5 1 (2.70%) CCNP
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.70%) CISSP
5 1 (2.70%) MCSE
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.70%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.70%) NIST
1 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (43.24%) MAILsweeper
2 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (8.11%) SCCM
4 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.70%) Autotask
4 1 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.70%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) Trend Micro
2 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
3 7 (18.92%) VMware
4 4 (10.81%) Aruba
4 4 (10.81%) Rapid7
5 3 (8.11%) IronPort
6 2 (5.41%) Adobe
6 2 (5.41%) Apple
6 2 (5.41%) CheckPoint
6 2 (5.41%) HP
6 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
6 2 (5.41%) SAP
6 2 (5.41%) Sitecore
6 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco
7 1 (2.70%) Commvault
7 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.70%) NetApp
7 1 (2.70%) Proofpoint
7 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow