Security Operations Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Security Operations (SecOps)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.40% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £700 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £800 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £650 £600 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 411 516 753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 82.70% 88.66% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 282 378
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £337 £286 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.11%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £678 £600 £602
East of England median daily rate £461 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.89% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 148 240
10th Percentile - £13.37 -
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.85 £12.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +6.15% +1.19%
75th Percentile £21.46 £20.56 £15.75
90th Percentile £48.60 £22.00 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £40.14 £24.62 £15.50
% change year-on-year +63.03% +58.84% -15.16%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Cambridgeshire

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in Cambridgeshire

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 6 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
Cambridge - 2 £750 - 1
Security Operations
East of England

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Red Team
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk