Security Operations Contracts in Berkshire

Security Operations (SecOps)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Security Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 101 116
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 -21
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 13 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.65% 0.72% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.79% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 10
10th Percentile £514 £413 £160
25th Percentile - £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £481 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% -19.79% +41.18%
75th Percentile £603 £542 £694
90th Percentile £755 £550 £731
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -16.67% +17.07% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £78.25
Median hourly rate - - £80.50
75th Percentile - - £82.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £80.50
% change year-on-year - - +570.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Security Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,767 1,644 2,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.97% 91.13% 90.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 1,057 1,383
10th Percentile £213 £350 £271
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 48 43
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.04 £73.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.37 £79.51 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Berkshire

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in Berkshire

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in Berkshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in Berkshire

Security Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Security Operations in Berkshire

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Reading -4 13 £533 -3.09% 17
Security Operations
South East

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Network Security
2 3 (23.08%) Broadband
3 2 (15.38%) Firewall
3 2 (15.38%) LAN
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) WAN
General
1 5 (38.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Senior
1 8 (61.54%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 7 (53.85%) Security Specialist
2 7 (53.85%) Senior Security Specialist
3 4 (30.77%) Head of Operations
3 4 (30.77%) Head of Security
3 4 (30.77%) Splunk Specialist
4 3 (23.08%) Head of Information
4 3 (23.08%) Head of Information Security
5 1 (7.69%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.69%) Head of IT
5 1 (7.69%) Head of IT Operations
5 1 (7.69%) Head of IT Security
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) SOC Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) CSOC
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Incident Management
2 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (30.77%) Information Security
2 4 (30.77%) SIEM
3 3 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (23.08%) Incident Response
3 3 (23.08%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (15.38%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (15.38%) Line Management
5 1 (7.69%) Blue Team
5 1 (7.69%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (7.69%) Red Team
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.69%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (15.38%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (23.08%) Nessus
3 2 (15.38%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (76.92%) Splunk
3 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) Citrix
3 2 (15.38%) VMware