Inversion of Control Contracts

Inversion of Control (IoC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Inversion of Control skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Inversion of Control 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 580 683 818
Rank change year-on-year +103 +135 -117
Contract jobs citing Inversion of Control 4 14 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.025% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.028% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 29
10th Percentile - £465 £561
25th Percentile £505 £492 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £875 £650
Median % change year-on-year -41.71% +34.62% -13.33%
75th Percentile £524 £925 £763
90th Percentile £540 - £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £494 £630
% change year-on-year +11.39% -21.63% +73.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Inversion of Control 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% -

Inversion of Control
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Inversion of Control in the UK

Inversion of Control
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inversion of Control.

Daily rate trend for Inversion of Control in the UK

Inversion of Control
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inversion of Control.

Hourly rate trend for Inversion of Control in the UK

Inversion of Control
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 Inversion of Control 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
Work from Home +118 4 £510 +5.70% 5
England +75 1 £550 -37.14% 8
UK excluding London +27 1 £550 +11.39% 5
Midlands - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £550 -

Inversion of Control
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 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 4 (100.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Incident Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (100.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (100.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 4 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) Use Case
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk