Security Monitoring Contracts in the City of London

Security Monitoring
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Security Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Monitoring over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 166 185
Rank change year-on-year +52 +19 -38
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 10 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.46% 0.22% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.24% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 11
10th Percentile £419 £640 £538
25th Percentile £500 £650 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £675 £620
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +8.87% +3.33%
75th Percentile £925 £820 £630
90th Percentile - £842 £800
Central London median daily rate £725 £675 £620
% change year-on-year +7.41% +8.87% +3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Security Monitoring 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 3,321 3,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.60% 91.59% 91.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,395 2,237 2,950
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £676
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 41
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Security Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Security Monitoring in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Monitoring in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
1 1 (10.00%) Google Compute Engine
1 1 (10.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 4 (40.00%) FTP
2 4 (40.00%) HTTP
2 4 (40.00%) ICMP
2 4 (40.00%) POP3
2 4 (40.00%) SMTP
2 4 (40.00%) SSH
2 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (30.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) ArcSight Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Architect
3 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Operations Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (10.00%) CSOC
3 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Unix
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) SIEM
2 4 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (30.00%) Information Security
4 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (20.00%) Information Assurance
4 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (20.00%) Threat Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (10.00%) Business Enablement
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (10.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) GCIA
2 2 (20.00%) GCIH
2 2 (20.00%) GIAC
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) QRadar
2 4 (40.00%) Kibana
2 4 (40.00%) logstash
3 2 (20.00%) CSIRT
3 2 (20.00%) Nessus
4 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) ArcSight
1 4 (40.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle