Forcepoint Contracts

Forcepoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Forcepoint products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Forcepoint over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Forcepoint, LLC (formerly Websense).

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 671 753
Rank change year-on-year +111 +82 -37
Contract jobs citing Forcepoint 24 26 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.047% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% 0.11% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 14 64
10th Percentile £418 £428 £319
25th Percentile £425 £466 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +7.37% +14.46%
75th Percentile £475 £539 £550
90th Percentile £525 £641 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

Forcepoint falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,504 24,201 35,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.37% 43.57% 40.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,474 16,134 23,582
10th Percentile £270 £270 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,161 635 848
10th Percentile £12.25 £15.08 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.06 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.56 £42.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -46.92% +96.40% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.67% +92.31% +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Forcepoint in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Forcepoint in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Forcepoint over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Forcepoint in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Forcepoint in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Forcepoint 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 21 £450 -11.76% 9
Work from Home +128 19 £450 -24.37% 2
UK excluding London +35 17 £450 -10.00% 4
South East +28 17 £450 -14.29% 1
London +75 4 £635 +25.12% 5

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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 (12.50%) IIS
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (12.50%) Mimecast
2 3 (12.50%) Nutanix
2 3 (12.50%) Rubrik
3 1 (4.17%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) DNS
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
1 4 (16.67%) LAN
1 4 (16.67%) SAN
1 4 (16.67%) Wireless
2 3 (12.50%) DKIM
2 3 (12.50%) DMARC
2 3 (12.50%) Extranet
2 3 (12.50%) Internet
2 3 (12.50%) NAS
2 3 (12.50%) VPN
2 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.17%) BGP
3 1 (4.17%) DDNS
3 1 (4.17%) DSL
3 1 (4.17%) Junos
3 1 (4.17%) MPLS
3 1 (4.17%) NGFW
3 1 (4.17%) OSPF
3 1 (4.17%) TACACS
General
1 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) IT Security Specialist
1 8 (33.33%) Security Operations Specialist
1 8 (33.33%) Security Specialist
2 6 (25.00%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) IT Support
3 3 (12.50%) Support Officer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 17 (70.83%) Management Information System
2 5 (20.83%) Data Centre
2 5 (20.83%) PKI
3 3 (12.50%) Fat Client
3 3 (12.50%) Thin Client
3 3 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Unix
2 3 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) Data Loss Prevention
2 17 (70.83%) SIEM
3 16 (66.67%) Data Security
3 16 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 16 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 16 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (16.67%) ITIL
4 4 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (16.67%) Web Filtering
5 3 (12.50%) Capacity Management
5 3 (12.50%) Converged Infrastructure
5 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (12.50%) High Availability
5 3 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
5 3 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (12.50%) Patch Management
5 3 (12.50%) Security Hardening
5 3 (12.50%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) CCNA
1 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (12.50%) BitLocker
1 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
1 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (12.50%) NetBackup
1 3 (12.50%) SCCM
1 3 (12.50%) SCOM
1 3 (12.50%) SCVMM
1 3 (12.50%) VxRail
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (4.17%) QRadar
2 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 19 (79.17%) Microsoft
2 16 (66.67%) LogRhythm
2 16 (66.67%) Qualys
2 16 (66.67%) Varonis
3 4 (16.67%) Cisco
3 4 (16.67%) F5
3 4 (16.67%) Juniper
3 4 (16.67%) SolarWinds
4 3 (12.50%) Avaya
4 3 (12.50%) Brocade
4 3 (12.50%) Commvault
4 3 (12.50%) Dell
4 3 (12.50%) Dell Compellent
4 3 (12.50%) EMC
4 3 (12.50%) Equitrac
4 3 (12.50%) HP
4 3 (12.50%) Mitel
4 3 (12.50%) Proofpoint
4 3 (12.50%) VMware
4 3 (12.50%) Wyse