Sophos Contracts

Sophos
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sophos 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 Sophos PLC.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 646 795
Rank change year-on-year +84 +149 -119
Contract jobs citing Sophos 40 49 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.088% 0.070%
As % of the Vendors category 0.22% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 39 38
10th Percentile £284 £227 £135
25th Percentile £375 £286 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £390 £350
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% +11.43% -13.85%
75th Percentile £575 £450 £438
90th Percentile £598 £513 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £350 £286
% change year-on-year +57.14% +22.27% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £16.62 - -
25th Percentile £17.18 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.73 £17.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £19.65 £28.44 £19.38
90th Percentile £19.83 £45.88 £19.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.73 £17.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +7.00% - -4.76%

All Vendors
UK

Sophos 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%

Sophos
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sophos in the UK

Sophos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sophos in the UK

Sophos
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Sophos in the UK

Sophos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Sophos in the UK

Sophos
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sophos 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 +86 40 £550 +41.03% 37
UK excluding London +56 37 £550 +57.14% 31
East of England +13 18 £550 +84.87% 10
North of England +32 13 £400 +28.00% 9
North West +20 12 £400 +28.00% 3
Work from Home +101 3 £600 +81.13% 12
London +63 3 £600 +33.33% 5
Midlands +21 3 £260 -27.27% 8
West Midlands +14 3 £260 -34.18% 4
South East +12 3 £375 -6.25% 5
South West +12 1 £425 -22.73% 1
North East - 1 £300 - 2

Sophos
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 19 (47.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (7.50%) Exchange Server 2000
3 3 (7.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (7.50%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (7.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (7.50%) Exchange Server 2013
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (35.00%) Azure
3 9 (22.50%) AWS
3 9 (22.50%) Mimecast
4 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.00%) GCP
6 2 (5.00%) BigCommerce
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.50%) IaaS
7 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.50%) PaaS
7 1 (2.50%) SaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 16 (40.00%) SMTP
2 4 (10.00%) Firewall
3 3 (7.50%) DNS
3 3 (7.50%) VPN
4 2 (5.00%) DHCP
4 2 (5.00%) LAN
4 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.00%) WAN
5 1 (2.50%) 3G
5 1 (2.50%) SAN
5 1 (2.50%) Skype
5 1 (2.50%) VLAN
5 1 (2.50%) VoIP
5 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Hudson
General
1 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Advertising
2 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Marketing
2 2 (5.00%) Retail
3 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Messaging Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Lead
4 4 (10.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Desktop Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (5.00%) Desktop Support
6 2 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Technologist
7 1 (2.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Head of Infrastructure
7 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.50%) Clustering
1 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
1 1 (2.50%) PKI
1 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (65.00%) Windows
2 16 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 5 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 4 (10.00%) Apple iOS
4 4 (10.00%) Linux
5 3 (7.50%) Windows 2000
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (10.00%) ITIL
2 4 (10.00%) Migration
2 4 (10.00%) Open Source
2 4 (10.00%) Patch Management
3 3 (7.50%) Analytics
3 3 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (7.50%) Information Security
4 2 (5.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (5.00%) B2B
4 2 (5.00%) Customer Acquisition
4 2 (5.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (5.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (5.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (5.00%) Service Design
4 2 (5.00%) SIEM
4 2 (5.00%) SOAR
4 2 (5.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (5.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (35.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) Degree
3 4 (10.00%) MCP
4 2 (5.00%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) CCNA
5 1 (2.50%) CCNP
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.50%) CISSP
5 1 (2.50%) MCSE
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.50%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) NIST
1 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (40.00%) MAILsweeper
2 10 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (12.50%) SCCM
4 2 (5.00%) WSUS
5 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.50%) Autotask
5 1 (2.50%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) Trend Micro
2 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (17.50%) VMware
4 6 (15.00%) Rapid7
5 4 (10.00%) Aruba
6 3 (7.50%) IronPort
7 2 (5.00%) Adobe
7 2 (5.00%) Apple
7 2 (5.00%) CheckPoint
7 2 (5.00%) Datto
7 2 (5.00%) HP
7 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
7 2 (5.00%) SAP
7 2 (5.00%) Sitecore
7 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.50%) Cisco
8 1 (2.50%) Commvault
8 1 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.50%) Meraki
8 1 (2.50%) NetApp