SANS Institute
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SANS qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 590 788
Rank change year-on-year +68 +198 -163
Contract jobs citing SANS 54 94 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.17% 0.070%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.42% 0.61% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 59 43
10th Percentile - £520 £450
25th Percentile £463 £631 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £683
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +2.56% -1.80%
75th Percentile £770 £750 £750
90th Percentile £825 £838 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £700 £665
% change year-on-year -28.57% +5.26% +29.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 3
10th Percentile - £62.75 -
25th Percentile - £65.19 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +13.98% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £72.90
90th Percentile - £77.63 £75.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +13.98% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,833 15,476 18,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.15% 27.17% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,954 10,342 12,449
10th Percentile £308 £325 £337
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £646 £650 £627
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,055 780 767
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.72 £20.47 £19.82
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.56 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -26.69% +24.14% +16.73%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £58.17
90th Percentile £75.85 £79.78 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.30 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.40% +42.86% +1.33%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SANS in the UK

SANS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SANS in the UK

SANS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SANS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SANS in the UK

SANS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SANS.

Hourly rate trend for SANS in the UK

SANS
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 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 +76 50 £675 -3.57% 14
UK excluding London +40 30 £500 -28.57% 7
South West +28 28 £500 - 2
London +70 22 £750 - 7
Work from Home +105 11 £684 -8.83% 15
Wales - 2 £666 -

SANS
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 3 (5.56%) Apache
1 3 (5.56%) IIS
1 3 (5.56%) WebLogic
1 3 (5.56%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.81%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) AWS
3 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (5.56%) GCP
3 3 (5.56%) GitHub
4 2 (3.70%) IaaS
4 2 (3.70%) SaaS
5 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) SAN
2 3 (5.56%) Network Security
2 3 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.70%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (3.70%) DHCP
3 2 (3.70%) DNS
3 2 (3.70%) Firewall
4 1 (1.85%) FTP
4 1 (1.85%) HTTP
4 1 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.85%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.85%) VLAN
4 1 (1.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) MySQL
1 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.56%) DB2
2 3 (5.56%) RDBMS
2 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.85%) CouchDB
3 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Burp Suite
1 3 (5.56%) Git
1 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 3 (5.56%) SonarQube
2 2 (3.70%) AppScan
2 2 (3.70%) GitLab
2 2 (3.70%) Subversion
3 1 (1.85%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.85%) Darcs
3 1 (1.85%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.85%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) Mercurial
3 1 (1.85%) Travis CI
General
1 17 (31.48%) Finance
2 4 (7.41%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (1.85%) Police
4 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Analyst
1 18 (33.33%) Architect
1 18 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
2 15 (27.78%) Security Architect
3 10 (18.52%) SOC Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Domain Architect
5 4 (7.41%) CISSP Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Senior
6 3 (5.56%) CyberArk Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Security Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Consultant
7 2 (3.70%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (5.56%) .NET
2 3 (5.56%) EJB
2 3 (5.56%) J2EE
2 3 (5.56%) JSP
2 3 (5.56%) LDAP
2 3 (5.56%) Servlets
2 3 (5.56%) Web Services
2 3 (5.56%) XML
3 2 (3.70%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.85%) CSS
4 1 (1.85%) HTML
4 1 (1.85%) React
4 1 (1.85%) REST
4 1 (1.85%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 24 (44.44%) CSOC
2 23 (42.59%) Security Operations Centre
3 9 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 7 (12.96%) PKI
5 6 (11.11%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.70%) Cyberattack
6 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.85%) CBDC
7 1 (1.85%) Digital Currency
7 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Windows
2 4 (7.41%) Linux
3 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.85%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (70.37%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (57.41%) SIEM
3 29 (53.70%) Use Case
4 26 (48.15%) Analytics
4 26 (48.15%) Incident Response
4 26 (48.15%) Time Management
5 25 (46.30%) Security Operations
6 22 (40.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (27.78%) Security Architecture
8 14 (25.93%) Risk Management
9 12 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
10 10 (18.52%) Agile
11 8 (14.81%) Cloud Security
11 8 (14.81%) Information Security
12 6 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
12 6 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 6 (11.11%) TOGAF
13 5 (9.26%) Architectural Design
13 5 (9.26%) Threat Modelling
14 4 (7.41%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.11%) Python
2 5 (9.26%) SQL
3 4 (7.41%) Bash
3 4 (7.41%) Java
4 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.85%) C
5 1 (1.85%) C#
5 1 (1.85%) C++
5 1 (1.85%) Go
5 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.85%) Perl
5 1 (1.85%) PHP
5 1 (1.85%) Rust
5 1 (1.85%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 29 (53.70%) Degree
1 29 (53.70%) Security Cleared
2 24 (44.44%) DV Cleared
3 21 (38.89%) CISSP
4 13 (24.07%) CISM
5 10 (18.52%) CRISC
6 9 (16.67%) CISA
7 8 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (12.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (9.26%) CEH
9 5 (9.26%) GIAC
9 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
10 4 (7.41%) CCSK
11 2 (3.70%) CCSP
11 2 (3.70%) CREST Certified
11 2 (3.70%) FFIEC
11 2 (3.70%) RHCE
12 1 (1.85%) CCNA
12 1 (1.85%) CCNP
12 1 (1.85%) CHFI
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) NIST
2 4 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.41%) NIST 800
3 3 (5.56%) GRC
4 2 (3.70%) GDPR
4 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (3.70%) QA
5 1 (1.85%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Ansible
1 4 (7.41%) Grafana
1 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
1 4 (7.41%) Terraform
2 3 (5.56%) Graylog
2 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.56%) Nagios
2 3 (5.56%) Progress Chef
2 3 (5.56%) Puppet
3 2 (3.70%) Host Intrusion Detection System
3 2 (3.70%) HP Fortify
3 2 (3.70%) Nessus
3 2 (3.70%) WebInspect
4 1 (1.85%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.85%) CSIRT
4 1 (1.85%) Kibana
4 1 (1.85%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (9.26%) Splunk
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) Oracle
3 3 (5.56%) Checkmarx
3 3 (5.56%) Cisco
3 3 (5.56%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.70%) AlienVault
4 2 (3.70%) ArcSight
4 2 (3.70%) Carbon Black
4 2 (3.70%) LogRhythm
4 2 (3.70%) Symantec
4 2 (3.70%) Veracode
5 1 (1.85%) Google