SANS Contracts in London

SANS Institute
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SANS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 422 557
Rank change year-on-year +43 +135 -87
Contract jobs citing SANS 21 60 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.50% 1.10% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 43 40
10th Percentile £243 £600 £450
25th Percentile £584 £700 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £688
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £825 £825 £748
90th Percentile - £838 £770
England median daily rate £575 £700 £688
% change year-on-year -17.86% +1.82% -4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

SANS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,184 5,456 6,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.67% 21.69% 17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,872 3,745 4,671
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £767 £800 £750
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 89 148
10th Percentile £14.49 £19.23 £24.18
25th Percentile £20.22 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.00 £51.50 £44.13
Median % change year-on-year -51.46% +16.71% +17.67%
75th Percentile £42.75 £70.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.60 £87.50 £65.32
England median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SANS in London

SANS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SANS in London

SANS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SANS in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SANS in London

SANS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SANS within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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 London -11 3 £770 +2.67% 1
Central London +38 2 £645 -19.38%
SANS
England

SANS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 2 (9.52%) IaaS
3 2 (9.52%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) DHCP
1 4 (19.05%) DNS
1 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
2 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) FTP
2 3 (14.29%) HTTP
2 3 (14.29%) Network Security
2 3 (14.29%) SAN
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (4.76%) tcpdump
4 1 (4.76%) VLAN
4 1 (4.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) MySQL
1 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.76%) CouchDB
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.76%) Redis
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) AppScan
2 1 (4.76%) Burp Suite
2 1 (4.76%) CircleCI
2 1 (4.76%) Darcs
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Jaeger
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Mercurial
2 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.76%) Subversion
2 1 (4.76%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Architect
1 12 (57.14%) Security Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Domain Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Security Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) CISSP Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Incident Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Security Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Junior
4 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (9.52%) Regular Expression
2 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.76%) CSS
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) React
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) PKI
1 6 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 5 (23.81%) Management Information System
3 3 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (9.52%) Cyberattack
5 1 (4.76%) CBDC
5 1 (4.76%) Digital Currency
5 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Security Architecture
2 12 (57.14%) Risk Management
3 10 (47.62%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (47.62%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (38.10%) Agile
4 8 (38.10%) Cloud Security
5 5 (23.81%) Information Security
5 5 (23.81%) Risk Assessment
5 5 (23.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (23.81%) TOGAF
6 4 (19.05%) Architectural Design
6 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
6 4 (19.05%) SABSA
6 4 (19.05%) SIEM
7 3 (14.29%) Digital Forensics
7 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
7 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
7 3 (14.29%) Security Operations
7 3 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Bash
2 3 (14.29%) Perl
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) C
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) C++
4 1 (4.76%) Go
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (80.95%) CISSP
2 12 (57.14%) CISM
3 9 (42.86%) CRISC
4 8 (38.10%) CISA
4 8 (38.10%) GIAC
5 5 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (19.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (19.05%) CCSK
6 4 (19.05%) CEH
6 4 (19.05%) Degree
7 3 (14.29%) GCIA
7 3 (14.29%) GCIH
8 2 (9.52%) CCSP
8 2 (9.52%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (9.52%) FFIEC
8 2 (9.52%) RHCE
8 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
8 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
9 1 (4.76%) CCNP
9 1 (4.76%) ECIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) NIST
2 5 (23.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (19.05%) NIST 800
4 3 (14.29%) GDPR
5 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (4.76%) ISO 20022
6 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) CSIRT
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Grafana
2 2 (9.52%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
2 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
2 2 (9.52%) Puppet
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (4.76%) Graylog
3 1 (4.76%) HP Fortify
3 1 (4.76%) Kibana
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) logstash
3 1 (4.76%) Nagios
3 1 (4.76%) Nessus
3 1 (4.76%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Cisco
2 2 (9.52%) AlienVault
2 2 (9.52%) ArcSight
2 2 (9.52%) Carbon Black
2 2 (9.52%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) LogRhythm
2 2 (9.52%) Splunk
2 2 (9.52%) Symantec
3 1 (4.76%) Checkmarx
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Veracode