SANS Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 580 769
Rank change year-on-year +57 +189 -104
Contract jobs citing SANS 52 102 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.18% 0.079%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.40% 0.67% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 62 50
10th Percentile - £503 £450
25th Percentile £463 £600 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £700 £666
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% +5.07% -6.49%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £758
90th Percentile £825 £838 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £700 £800
% change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +55.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £72.50 £63.30
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £66.90
Median % change year-on-year - +12.11% -
75th Percentile - £77.56 £71.50
90th Percentile - £77.68 £75.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £66.90
% change year-on-year - +12.11% -

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 12,872 15,254 19,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 27.21% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,011 10,183 12,699
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 745 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.32 £79.19 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%

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 1 June 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 1 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
England +40 48 £600 -14.29% 11
UK excluding London +21 30 £500 -28.57% 6
South West +24 28 £500 -
London +53 20 £750 - 7
Work from Home +90 9 £621 -17.17% 6
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 2 (3.85%) Apache
1 2 (3.85%) IIS
1 2 (3.85%) WebLogic
1 2 (3.85%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.31%) Azure
2 8 (15.38%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) GCP
4 3 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (5.77%) GitHub
5 2 (3.85%) IaaS
5 2 (3.85%) SaaS
6 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.77%) DHCP
2 3 (5.77%) DNS
2 3 (5.77%) Firewall
2 3 (5.77%) Network Security
2 3 (5.77%) SAN
3 2 (3.85%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (3.85%) FTP
3 2 (3.85%) HTTP
4 1 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.92%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.92%) VLAN
4 1 (1.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) MySQL
1 4 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.77%) RDBMS
2 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.85%) DB2
4 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.92%) CouchDB
4 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Burp Suite
1 3 (5.77%) Git
1 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
1 3 (5.77%) SonarQube
2 2 (3.85%) AppScan
2 2 (3.85%) GitLab
2 2 (3.85%) Subversion
3 1 (1.92%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.92%) Darcs
3 1 (1.92%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.92%) Mercurial
3 1 (1.92%) Travis CI
General
1 14 (26.92%) Finance
2 4 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.92%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (1.92%) Legal
5 1 (1.92%) Police
5 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Analyst
1 18 (34.62%) SOC Analyst
2 14 (26.92%) Architect
3 12 (23.08%) Security Architect
4 10 (19.23%) SOC Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Domain Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Senior
7 3 (5.77%) CISSP Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Security Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Security Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) CyberArk Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Incident Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.85%) .NET
2 2 (3.85%) EJB
2 2 (3.85%) J2EE
2 2 (3.85%) JSP
2 2 (3.85%) LDAP
2 2 (3.85%) Regular Expression
2 2 (3.85%) Servlets
2 2 (3.85%) Web Services
2 2 (3.85%) XML
3 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.92%) CSS
3 1 (1.92%) HTML
3 1 (1.92%) React
3 1 (1.92%) REST
3 1 (1.92%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 24 (46.15%) CSOC
1 24 (46.15%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (15.38%) Public Cloud
3 6 (11.54%) PKI
4 5 (9.62%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.85%) Cyberattack
5 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.85%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.92%) CBDC
6 1 (1.92%) Digital Currency
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Windows
2 4 (7.69%) Linux
3 3 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.92%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (71.15%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (59.62%) SIEM
3 28 (53.85%) Use Case
4 27 (51.92%) Incident Response
5 26 (50.00%) Analytics
5 26 (50.00%) Security Operations
5 26 (50.00%) Time Management
6 22 (42.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (25.00%) Security Architecture
8 12 (23.08%) Risk Management
9 10 (19.23%) Enterprise Architecture
10 9 (17.31%) Agile
11 8 (15.38%) Cloud Security
12 7 (13.46%) Information Security
13 5 (9.62%) Application Security
13 5 (9.62%) Risk Assessment
13 5 (9.62%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 5 (9.62%) TOGAF
14 4 (7.69%) Architectural Design
14 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.46%) Python
2 4 (7.69%) Bash
2 4 (7.69%) SQL
3 3 (5.77%) Java
4 2 (3.85%) Perl
4 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.92%) C
5 1 (1.92%) C#
5 1 (1.92%) C++
5 1 (1.92%) Go
5 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.92%) PHP
5 1 (1.92%) Rust
5 1 (1.92%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 29 (55.77%) Degree
1 29 (55.77%) Security Cleared
2 24 (46.15%) DV Cleared
3 19 (36.54%) CISSP
4 12 (23.08%) CISM
5 9 (17.31%) CRISC
6 8 (15.38%) CISA
7 7 (13.46%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (13.46%) GIAC
8 6 (11.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (11.54%) CEH
9 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
10 4 (7.69%) CCSK
11 2 (3.85%) CCSP
11 2 (3.85%) CREST Certified
11 2 (3.85%) FFIEC
11 2 (3.85%) GCIA
11 2 (3.85%) GCIH
11 2 (3.85%) RHCE
12 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) NIST
2 5 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (7.69%) NIST 800
4 3 (5.77%) GDPR
5 2 (3.85%) GRC
5 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (3.85%) QA
6 1 (1.92%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Ansible
1 4 (7.69%) Grafana
1 4 (7.69%) Prometheus
1 4 (7.69%) Terraform
2 3 (5.77%) Graylog
2 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) Nagios
2 3 (5.77%) Progress Chef
2 3 (5.77%) Puppet
3 2 (3.85%) CSIRT
3 2 (3.85%) Host Intrusion Detection System
3 2 (3.85%) HP Fortify
3 2 (3.85%) Nessus
3 2 (3.85%) WebInspect
4 1 (1.92%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.92%) Kibana
4 1 (1.92%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Splunk
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) Checkmarx
3 3 (5.77%) Cisco
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle
4 2 (3.85%) AlienVault
4 2 (3.85%) ArcSight
4 2 (3.85%) Carbon Black
4 2 (3.85%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.85%) Google
4 2 (3.85%) LogRhythm
4 2 (3.85%) Symantec
4 2 (3.85%) Veracode