CrowdStrike Contracts

CrowdStrike
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of CrowdStrike products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CrowdStrike over the 6 months to 1 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 CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 648 793
Rank change year-on-year +118 +145 -82
Contract jobs citing CrowdStrike 45 34 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.061% 0.051%
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 22 33
10th Percentile £400 £208 £465
25th Percentile £422 £325 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £700
90th Percentile £775 £763 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £463 £520
% change year-on-year +3.78% -11.06% -16.80%

All Vendors
UK

CrowdStrike 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 18,277 24,339 35,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.45% 43.42% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,373 16,241 23,612
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 647 855
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.97 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CrowdStrike in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CrowdStrike in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CrowdStrike over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CrowdStrike in the UK

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Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CrowdStrike within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 28 £500 +11.11% 36
UK excluding London +48 22 £480 +3.78% 18
Work from Home +116 17 £500 -4.76% 9
London +90 13 £575 +61.40% 19
Scotland - 9 £525 - 1
South East +18 8 £478 -16.96% 6
North of England +22 2 £625 +38.89% 6
East of England +6 2 - - 1
North West +21 1 - - 5
Midlands +19 1 - - 3
Yorkshire +17 1 £625 -1.96% 1
West Midlands +11 1 - - 3
South West +5 1 £425 -26.09% 1

CrowdStrike
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 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) Azure
2 11 (24.44%) Entra ID
2 11 (24.44%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (20.00%) AWS
4 4 (8.89%) Mimecast
5 2 (4.44%) GCP
5 2 (4.44%) IaaS
5 2 (4.44%) PaaS
5 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.44%) Sumo Logic
6 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.22%) Firewall
2 4 (8.89%) Network Security
2 4 (8.89%) WAN
3 3 (6.67%) DHCP
3 3 (6.67%) DNS
3 3 (6.67%) Internet
3 3 (6.67%) VPN
4 2 (4.44%) LAN
4 2 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.22%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) Power BI
1 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Git
General
1 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Automotive
4 2 (4.44%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 12 (26.67%) Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Architect
5 6 (13.33%) IT Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Security Analyst
5 6 (13.33%) SOC Analyst
6 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) IT Analyst
7 4 (8.89%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) IT Security Analyst
7 4 (8.89%) Lead
7 4 (8.89%) Senior
8 3 (6.67%) IT Security Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Consultant
9 2 (4.44%) Deployment Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Junior
9 2 (4.44%) Lead Consultant
9 2 (4.44%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) OpenID
1 7 (15.56%) SAML
2 1 (2.22%) .NET
2 1 (2.22%) J2EE
2 1 (2.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Cyberattack
2 6 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.67%) Operational Technology
4 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.44%) Fat Client
5 2 (4.44%) PKI
5 2 (4.44%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.22%) Clustering
6 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.22%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 22 (48.89%) Windows
2 11 (24.44%) Linux
3 6 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.44%) Unix
4 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (31.11%) Incident Response
3 12 (26.67%) Security Operations
4 11 (24.44%) Information Security
4 11 (24.44%) SIEM
5 9 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (17.78%) Security Monitoring
6 8 (17.78%) Vulnerability Management
6 8 (17.78%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Identification
8 6 (13.33%) Offensive Security
8 6 (13.33%) Task Automation
9 5 (11.11%) Data Security
10 4 (8.89%) Risk Management
10 4 (8.89%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (8.89%) Workshop Facilitation
11 3 (6.67%) Application Security
11 3 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (6.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.22%) C#
2 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) CISSP
2 2 (4.44%) GCIA
2 2 (4.44%) GCIH
2 2 (4.44%) GIAC
2 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) CCNA
3 1 (2.22%) CCNP
3 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.22%) MCSA
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.22%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.89%) PCI DSS
3 3 (6.67%) COBIT
3 3 (6.67%) GDPR
3 3 (6.67%) NCSC
4 2 (4.44%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (4.44%) GRC
5 1 (2.22%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (2.22%) NIST
5 1 (2.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (51.11%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.89%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) SCCM
1 6 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (8.89%) Nessus
3 3 (6.67%) SCOrch
3 3 (6.67%) Terraform
4 2 (4.44%) CASB
4 2 (4.44%) CSIRT
4 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.44%) Nexpose
4 2 (4.44%) QRadar
4 2 (4.44%) RSA Archer
5 1 (2.22%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.22%) SCOM
5 1 (2.22%) SCVMM
5 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.00%) Zscaler
3 8 (17.78%) Okta
3 8 (17.78%) Splunk
4 5 (11.11%) Rapid7
5 4 (8.89%) Netskope
5 4 (8.89%) VMware
6 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.44%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (4.44%) Citrix
7 2 (4.44%) CyberArk
7 2 (4.44%) HP
7 2 (4.44%) Imperva
7 2 (4.44%) Oracle
7 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
7 2 (4.44%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.22%) Aruba
8 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.22%) Google
8 1 (2.22%) Proofpoint