Rapid7
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Rapid7 products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Rapid7 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 Rapid7 LLC.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 647 814
Rank change year-on-year +106 +167 -116
Contract jobs citing Rapid7 30 40 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.070% 0.034%
As % of the Vendors category 0.17% 0.16% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 24
10th Percentile £275 £325 -
25th Percentile £425 £463 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £313
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +76.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £478
90th Percentile £725 £650 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £313
% change year-on-year -10.53% +52.00% -40.48%

All Vendors
UK

Rapid7 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,101 24,501 35,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.03% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,253 16,404 23,407
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £638
90th Percentile £738 £742 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 662 881
10th Percentile £12.07 £15.02 £12.04
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -34.97% +76.00% +1.35%

Rapid7
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Rapid7 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Rapid7 in the UK

Rapid7
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Rapid7.

Daily rate trend for Rapid7 in the UK

Rapid7
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rapid7 over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Rapid7 in the UK

Rapid7
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rapid7 within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +98 25 £500 -4.76% 14
London +90 16 £500 -9.09% 4
Work from Home +105 13 £490 -10.91% 6
UK excluding London +59 11 £425 -10.53% 10
North of England - 5 £590 - 4
North West - 5 £590 - 2
West Midlands +22 4 £343 -2.14% 3
Midlands +22 4 £343 -2.14% 5
Scotland +41 2 £300 -45.45%

Rapid7
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.00%) SaaS
4 2 (6.67%) AWS
4 2 (6.67%) Mimecast
4 2 (6.67%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (3.33%) IaaS
5 1 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) DHCP
2 2 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (6.67%) Network Security
2 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Advertising
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Security Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Lead
3 3 (10.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Architect
4 2 (6.67%) CISSP Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Security Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) SOC Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Technologist
4 2 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 3 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 10 (33.33%) SIEM
2 10 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 7 (23.33%) Information Security
3 7 (23.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 6 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 5 (16.67%) Data Security
5 5 (16.67%) Patch Management
5 5 (16.67%) Threat Detection
5 5 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 4 (13.33%) Security Operations
6 4 (13.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 3 (10.00%) Analytics
7 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
7 3 (10.00%) Security Architecture
7 3 (10.00%) Security Patching
7 3 (10.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) CISSP
2 3 (10.00%) CISM
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) CISA
3 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (6.67%) CTC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) CCNA CyberOps
4 1 (3.33%) CEH
4 1 (3.33%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (43.33%) NIST
2 7 (23.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.33%) GDPR
5 1 (3.33%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.33%) Samba
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) SCCM
2 4 (13.33%) Nessus
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.67%) Nexpose
3 2 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (30.00%) Sophos
2 5 (16.67%) Qualys
3 4 (13.33%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (10.00%) Splunk
5 2 (6.67%) Checkmarx
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco
5 2 (6.67%) CyberArk
5 2 (6.67%) Darktrace
5 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.67%) Varonis
5 2 (6.67%) Veracode
6 1 (3.33%) Veeam
6 1 (3.33%) VMware