Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CASB skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CASB over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 652 810
Rank change year-on-year +87 +158 -139
Contract jobs citing CASB 14 42 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.073% 0.060%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.27% 0.46% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 31 43
10th Percentile £431 £425 £423
25th Percentile £484 £492 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £694 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate - £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

CASB is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,096 9,119 14,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.98% 15.92% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,684 6,541 10,109
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 201 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.76 £22.41 £15.56
Median hourly rate £26.38 £52.50 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -49.75% +139.84% -45.28%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £44.46
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.00 £58.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.09% +100.25% -13.83%

CASB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CASB in the UK

CASB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CASB in the UK

CASB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CASB over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CASB in the UK

CASB
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 CASB within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London +100 12 £650 +18.72% 13
England +93 12 £650 +18.18% 16
Work from Home +92 3 £644 +17.31% 3
Scotland +36 1 - -
UK excluding London +26 1 - - 3

CASB
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 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (7.14%) IBM Notes
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Network Security
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 3 (21.43%) WAN
3 2 (14.29%) Internet
3 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (7.14%) BGP
4 1 (7.14%) LAN
4 1 (7.14%) OSPF
4 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
4 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Security Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Security Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) CISSP Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Head of Security
3 1 (7.14%) Information Security Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Information Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
4 1 (7.14%) PKI
4 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Cloud Security
2 9 (64.29%) Data Loss Prevention
3 8 (57.14%) Information Security
4 5 (35.71%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (28.57%) Investment Management
5 4 (28.57%) Security Operations
6 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
6 3 (21.43%) Data Security
6 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
6 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (21.43%) SIEM
7 2 (14.29%) Analytics
7 2 (14.29%) DevOps
7 2 (14.29%) OWASP
7 2 (14.29%) Patch Management
7 2 (14.29%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Go
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) CISM
1 2 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) CCIE
2 1 (7.14%) CCNP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) COBIT
2 2 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (14.29%) NCSC
2 2 (14.29%) NIST
2 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 1 (7.14%) GLBA
3 1 (7.14%) ISAE 3402
3 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (14.29%) SCCM
2 2 (14.29%) SCOrch
3 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
3 1 (7.14%) HP Fortify
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Netskope
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (14.29%) Imperva
4 1 (7.14%) Axway
4 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) Lotus
4 1 (7.14%) McAfee
4 1 (7.14%) Meraki
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (7.14%) Trend Micro
4 1 (7.14%) Zscaler