Proofpoint Contracts

Proofpoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Proofpoint products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Proofpoint over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Proofpoint, Inc.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 677 824
Rank change year-on-year +89 +147 -117
Contract jobs citing Proofpoint 14 18 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.032% 0.037%
As % of the Vendors category 0.076% 0.074% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 23
10th Percentile £417 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +2.44%
75th Percentile £573 - £688
90th Percentile £586 £793 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £350 £663
% change year-on-year +35.71% -47.17% +39.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

Proofpoint is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,423 24,197 35,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.53% 43.55% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,421 16,129 23,703
10th Percentile £268 £269 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +8.25%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,152 641 857
10th Percentile £12.25 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.06 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +7.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £48.59
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £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 Proofpoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Proofpoint in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Proofpoint in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proofpoint over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Proofpoint in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Proofpoint in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Proofpoint within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +90 12 £500 -23.08% 2
London +79 9 £533 -18.08% 1
UK excluding London +43 3 £475 +35.71% 1
Work from Home +104 2 - - 1
North of England +24 2 £508 +45.00%
North West +12 2 £508 +45.00%
South East - 1 £475 - 1

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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 7 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (21.43%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (50.00%) Mimecast
3 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (21.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (21.43%) Nutanix
4 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 3 (21.43%) Rubrik
5 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Stack
6 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
6 1 (7.14%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
2 3 (21.43%) DKIM
2 3 (21.43%) DMARC
2 3 (21.43%) Extranet
2 3 (21.43%) Internet
2 3 (21.43%) LAN
2 3 (21.43%) NAS
2 3 (21.43%) SAN
2 3 (21.43%) VPN
2 3 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (21.43%) Wireless
3 1 (7.14%) Skype
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Legal
3 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
1 3 (21.43%) IT Support
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint Developer
1 3 (21.43%) Support Officer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Specialist
2 2 (14.29%) Messaging Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Messaging Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Security Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) CSS
1 3 (21.43%) HTML5 Canvas
1 3 (21.43%) jQuery
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Graph
1 3 (21.43%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) PKI
2 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 3 (21.43%) Fat Client
2 3 (21.43%) Thin Client
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Team
3 2 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (7.14%) Insider Threat
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) ITIL
1 7 (50.00%) Migration
2 5 (35.71%) Kalman Filter
2 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 4 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Application Packaging
4 3 (21.43%) Converged Infrastructure
4 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (21.43%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (21.43%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (21.43%) Patch Management
4 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2
4 3 (21.43%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) Security Hardening
4 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
2 2 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (21.43%) BitLocker
2 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (28.57%) SCCM
2 3 (21.43%) NetBackup
2 3 (21.43%) PingFederate
2 3 (21.43%) SCOM
2 3 (21.43%) SCVMM
2 3 (21.43%) VxRail
3 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
3 1 (7.14%) QRadar
3 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Symantec
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) Avaya
3 3 (21.43%) Brocade
3 3 (21.43%) Commvault
3 3 (21.43%) Dell
3 3 (21.43%) Dell Compellent
3 3 (21.43%) EMC
3 3 (21.43%) Equitrac
3 3 (21.43%) F5
3 3 (21.43%) Forcepoint
3 3 (21.43%) HP
3 3 (21.43%) Juniper
3 3 (21.43%) Mitel
3 3 (21.43%) MobileIron
3 3 (21.43%) SolarWinds
3 3 (21.43%) Wyse
4 2 (14.29%) Zscaler