Security Monitoring Contracts in England

Security Monitoring
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 491 591
Rank change year-on-year +77 +100 -43
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 125 156 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.35% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 106 117
10th Percentile £419 £500 £450
25th Percentile £463 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +3.84%
75th Percentile £647 £669 £650
90th Percentile £763 £719 £760
UK median daily rate £510 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -15.00% +2.13% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £65.18 £33.43 -
25th Percentile £67.31 £43.06 -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £63.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 £85.56 -
90th Percentile £77.33 £96.48 -
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £63.25 -
% change year-on-year +15.02% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,798 44,069 63,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 30,926 45,337
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,559 1,731
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Security Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in England

Security Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in England.

Daily rate trend for Security Monitoring in England

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in England

Security Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Monitoring in England

Security Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Monitoring within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
London +91 48 £558 -7.08% 23
South West +38 39 £495 -19.18% 4
South East +6 19 £480 -8.57% 11
Midlands +26 11 £550 -6.38% 2
West Midlands +13 11 £550 -6.38% 1
East of England +13 3 £575 -17.86% 1
North of England -2 3 £676 +17.57% 4
North West -3 3 £676 +15.56% 1
Security Monitoring
UK

Security Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 36 (28.80%) SharePoint
2 34 (27.20%) Confluence
2 34 (27.20%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.60%) IIS
5 1 (0.80%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (41.60%) Azure
2 35 (28.00%) Azure Stack
3 14 (11.20%) GCP
4 11 (8.80%) Google Compute Engine
4 11 (8.80%) Vertex AI
5 9 (7.20%) AWS
6 6 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.00%) SaaS
8 4 (3.20%) IaaS
8 4 (3.20%) PaaS
9 3 (2.40%) Azure API Management
9 3 (2.40%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.40%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.80%) AWS IoT
11 1 (0.80%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 50 (40.00%) Firewall
2 34 (27.20%) BGP
3 16 (12.80%) DNS
4 13 (10.40%) TCP/IP
4 13 (10.40%) WAN
5 11 (8.80%) Network Security
6 10 (8.00%) SD-WAN
7 7 (5.60%) DHCP
8 5 (4.00%) Internet
9 4 (3.20%) FTP
9 4 (3.20%) HTTP
9 4 (3.20%) ICMP
9 4 (3.20%) POP3
9 4 (3.20%) SMTP
9 4 (3.20%) SSH
9 4 (3.20%) VPN
10 2 (1.60%) LAN
11 1 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.80%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.60%) BigQuery
2 4 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.40%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (27.20%) JIRA
2 4 (3.20%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.60%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.60%) Git
3 2 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.80%) GitLab
4 1 (0.80%) NUnit
4 1 (0.80%) Subversion
General
1 58 (46.40%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.60%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (7.20%) Finance
4 6 (4.80%) Banking
4 6 (4.80%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.40%) Automotive
5 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (17.60%) Analyst
2 17 (13.60%) Microsoft Engineer
3 13 (10.40%) Architect
3 13 (10.40%) Security Engineer
4 11 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (8.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 10 (8.00%) WAN Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Senior
7 7 (5.60%) GCP Architect
8 6 (4.80%) GCP Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Security Architect
8 6 (4.80%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Lead
9 5 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Service Analyst
9 5 (4.00%) Service Management Analyst
9 5 (4.00%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.00%) .NET
2 4 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (28.80%) Private Cloud
2 10 (8.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 9 (7.20%) Security Posture
4 5 (4.00%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.20%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.20%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.40%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (2.40%) IoT
6 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.80%) CSOC
8 1 (0.80%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (50.40%) Windows
2 23 (18.40%) Linux
3 16 (12.80%) Unix
4 12 (9.60%) Windows Server
5 9 (7.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.00%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (29.60%) ITIL
3 36 (28.80%) Capacity Management
3 36 (28.80%) Network Management
3 36 (28.80%) Service Management
4 31 (24.80%) ITSM
5 25 (20.00%) SIEM
6 21 (16.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (16.00%) Cloud Security
7 20 (16.00%) Information Security
8 18 (14.40%) Security Operations
9 17 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (13.60%) Identity Access Management
10 16 (12.80%) Incident Response
10 16 (12.80%) Vulnerability Management
11 13 (10.40%) Computer Science
12 12 (9.60%) Analytics
12 12 (9.60%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (9.60%) Data Loss Prevention
12 12 (9.60%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.60%) Python
2 13 (10.40%) Bash
3 12 (9.60%) C#
4 10 (8.00%) Java
5 3 (2.40%) PHP
5 3 (2.40%) Ruby
6 2 (1.60%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.60%) SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 41 (32.80%) DV Cleared
3 23 (18.40%) Degree
4 14 (11.20%) SC Cleared
5 11 (8.80%) CISSP
6 10 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (5.60%) CISM
8 5 (4.00%) GIAC
9 4 (3.20%) CISA
10 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.40%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.40%) MBA
11 2 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.60%) GCIA
11 2 (1.60%) GCIH
12 1 (0.80%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.80%) CEH
12 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.80%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.80%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (27.20%) Government Security Classifications
2 15 (12.00%) NIST
3 10 (8.00%) ISO 9000
4 4 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.20%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.60%) COBIT
5 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.60%) QA
6 1 (0.80%) GLBA
6 1 (0.80%) ISAE 3402
6 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (9.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.40%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.60%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (5.60%) VMware NSX
4 5 (4.00%) Docker
4 5 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.40%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.60%) XenApp
7 1 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (20.80%) SCOM
2 13 (10.40%) Terraform
3 9 (7.20%) SCCM
4 7 (5.60%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.60%) QRadar
4 7 (5.60%) vCenter Server
5 6 (4.80%) Nessus
6 4 (3.20%) Kibana
6 4 (3.20%) logstash
7 3 (2.40%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 3 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.60%) CSIRT
8 2 (1.60%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (1.60%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.80%) CASB
9 1 (0.80%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 60 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 36 (28.80%) Atlassian
3 14 (11.20%) Cisco
4 12 (9.60%) VMware
5 8 (6.40%) Splunk
6 7 (5.60%) Veeam
7 5 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (3.20%) ArcSight
8 4 (3.20%) Fujitsu
9 3 (2.40%) Oracle
9 3 (2.40%) Qualys
10 2 (1.60%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.60%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.60%) Citrix
10 2 (1.60%) Netskope
10 2 (1.60%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.80%) Darktrace
11 1 (0.80%) Rapid7
11 1 (0.80%) Salesforce