Boundary Protection Contracts

Boundary Protection
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Boundary Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Boundary Protection 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 575 686 821
Rank change year-on-year +111 +135 -91
Contract jobs citing Boundary Protection 9 11 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.020% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.022% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 20
10th Percentile £516 - £522
25th Percentile £522 £563 £614
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £547 £794 £775
90th Percentile £549 £1,053 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £600 £750
% change year-on-year -10.42% -20.00% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Boundary Protection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Boundary Protection
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Boundary Protection in the UK

Boundary Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Boundary Protection in the UK

Boundary Protection
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Boundary Protection within the UK 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
England +84 9 £538 -10.42% 4
UK excluding London +30 9 £538 -10.42% 4
South East - 9 £538 - 1
Work from Home +110 1 £525 -12.50% 1

Boundary Protection
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) SDH
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Robot Framework
1 7 (77.78%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Architect
2 7 (77.78%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
1 7 (77.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Service Management
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) Application Security
2 7 (77.78%) Scrum
2 7 (77.78%) Security Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) API Management
3 1 (11.11%) ArchiMate
3 1 (11.11%) BPMN
3 1 (11.11%) Change Advisory Board
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Release Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Release Management
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) PowerShell
2 7 (77.78%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) RMADS
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 7 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 7 (77.78%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) BMC
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Ericsson
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Nokia
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) Remedy
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow