Security Operations Contracts in England

Security Operations (SecOps)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 298 386
Rank change year-on-year +79 +88 +25
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 393 446 462
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.06% 0.88% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.98% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 318 332
10th Percentile £425 £404 £450
25th Percentile £500 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £622 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +3.67% +17.07%
75th Percentile £697 £731 £725
90th Percentile £791 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - £33.31 £24.26
25th Percentile - £34.25 £28.76
Median hourly rate £11.25 £76.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -85.29% +104.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile - £93.75 £60.75
90th Percentile - £97.50 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £11.25 £76.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -85.29% +47.83% +43.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
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 Operations within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +3 130 £650 - 69
South West +95 127 £570 -8.80% 14
South East +42 50 £500 -19.22% 41
Midlands +30 44 £618 -5.00% 23
West Midlands +38 41 £629 -3.17% 18
East of England +8 17 £650 +8.33% 11
North of England -12 14 £638 +6.25% 26
North West -26 8 £638 +6.25% 16
Yorkshire +14 6 £784 +43.15% 8
East Midlands +18 3 £567 -13.63% 5
Security Operations
UK

Security Operations
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 13 (3.31%) CMS
2 2 (0.51%) Confluence
3 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.25%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 55 (13.99%) Azure
2 22 (5.60%) AWS
3 20 (5.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 16 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (1.78%) Power Platform
6 6 (1.53%) IaaS
7 5 (1.27%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.27%) SaaS
8 4 (1.02%) GCP
8 4 (1.02%) PaaS
9 3 (0.76%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.51%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.51%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.51%) GitHub
10 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.25%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.25%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.25%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 48 (12.21%) Network Security
2 37 (9.41%) Firewall
3 21 (5.34%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (2.54%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.53%) DNS
6 4 (1.02%) LAN
7 3 (0.76%) Broadband
7 3 (0.76%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.76%) Internet
7 3 (0.76%) VPN
7 3 (0.76%) WAN
8 2 (0.51%) DHCP
8 2 (0.51%) HTTP
8 2 (0.51%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.51%) VoIP
8 2 (0.51%) Wireless
9 1 (0.25%) FTP
9 1 (0.25%) IPsec
9 1 (0.25%) SMTP
9 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.31%) Big Data
2 7 (1.78%) Power BI
3 6 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Git
2 3 (0.76%) Burp Suite
2 3 (0.76%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.76%) Metasploit
2 3 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.51%) GitLab
3 2 (0.51%) JIRA
General
1 70 (17.81%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.78%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (12.98%) Finance
4 28 (7.12%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.11%) Banking
6 13 (3.31%) Manufacturing
7 11 (2.80%) Military
8 8 (2.04%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.78%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.27%) Law
11 5 (1.27%) Legal
12 3 (0.76%) Marketing
13 2 (0.51%) Electronics
13 2 (0.51%) Games
13 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.25%) Back Office
14 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (38.17%) Analyst
2 89 (22.65%) SOC Analyst
3 37 (9.41%) Architect
3 37 (9.41%) Senior
4 33 (8.40%) SOC Engineer
4 33 (8.40%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 32 (8.14%) Security Analyst
6 29 (7.38%) Lead
7 25 (6.36%) Security Engineer
8 20 (5.09%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 20 (5.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
8 20 (5.09%) Security Specialist
9 19 (4.83%) Security Manager
10 18 (4.58%) Security Architect
11 14 (3.56%) Operations Analyst
11 14 (3.56%) Security Operations Analyst
11 14 (3.56%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.56%) SOC Manager
12 12 (3.05%) Operational Security Manager
12 12 (3.05%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.31%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.02%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.02%) CSS
3 4 (1.02%) LDAP
3 4 (1.02%) XML
4 3 (0.76%) HTML
4 3 (0.76%) SAML
4 3 (0.76%) SOAP
4 3 (0.76%) YAML
5 2 (0.51%) PySpark
6 1 (0.25%) JDBC
6 1 (0.25%) JSON
6 1 (0.25%) OAuth
6 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.25%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 149 (37.91%) Security Operations Centre
2 69 (17.56%) Cyber Threat
3 67 (17.05%) Management Information System
4 49 (12.47%) CSOC
5 41 (10.43%) Security Posture
6 40 (10.18%) Cyber Defence
7 21 (5.34%) Cyberattack
8 17 (4.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 15 (3.82%) Distributed Applications
10 13 (3.31%) Onboarding
11 12 (3.05%) Operational Technology
12 11 (2.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 8 (2.04%) CESG
14 7 (1.78%) CMDB
15 5 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
16 3 (0.76%) Data Centre
16 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
16 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
16 3 (0.76%) Public Cloud
16 3 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 69 (17.56%) Windows
2 55 (13.99%) Linux
3 15 (3.82%) Unix
4 11 (2.80%) Android
4 11 (2.80%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.76%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (59.54%) Cybersecurity
2 182 (46.31%) SIEM
3 165 (41.98%) Incident Response
4 117 (29.77%) Information Security
5 89 (22.65%) Threat Intelligence
6 68 (17.30%) Vulnerability Management
7 67 (17.05%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 63 (16.03%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 57 (14.50%) Use Case
10 53 (13.49%) Analytics
11 47 (11.96%) SOAR
12 46 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (9.16%) Security Architecture
13 36 (9.16%) Threat Detection
14 34 (8.65%) Incident Management
15 33 (8.40%) Data Security
16 32 (8.14%) Cyber Intelligence
17 31 (7.89%) Data Loss Prevention
18 29 (7.38%) OSINT
Programming Languages
1 29 (7.38%) PowerShell
2 21 (5.34%) Python
3 14 (3.56%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (2.29%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.27%) Bash
6 4 (1.02%) Search Processing Language
7 3 (0.76%) Java
7 3 (0.76%) Perl
7 3 (0.76%) SQL
8 2 (0.51%) C
8 2 (0.51%) C++
8 2 (0.51%) Go
8 2 (0.51%) Ruby
8 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 192 (48.85%) Security Cleared
2 119 (30.28%) DV Cleared
3 70 (17.81%) SC Cleared
4 59 (15.01%) CISSP
5 53 (13.49%) Degree
6 28 (7.12%) CISM
7 25 (6.36%) SANS
8 20 (5.09%) CEH
9 19 (4.83%) CompTIA Security+
9 19 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (2.80%) GIAC
11 10 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (2.29%) CISA
13 8 (2.04%) CISMP
13 8 (2.04%) ISACA
13 8 (2.04%) SSCP
14 7 (1.78%) Azure Certification
15 6 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.20%) NIST
2 38 (9.67%) GDPR
3 26 (6.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (4.58%) PCI DSS
5 17 (4.33%) NIST 800
6 16 (4.07%) NCSC
7 13 (3.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (2.80%) HIPAA
9 7 (1.78%) GRC
10 5 (1.27%) Data Quality
11 4 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (1.02%) QA
11 4 (1.02%) SLA
12 2 (0.51%) RMADS
System Software
1 16 (4.07%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.76%) Docker
4 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.51%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (2.54%) Terraform
2 9 (2.29%) Nessus
3 7 (1.78%) CSIRT
3 7 (1.78%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.53%) Kibana
4 6 (1.53%) logstash
5 5 (1.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 4 (1.02%) QRadar
6 4 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.76%) Ansible
7 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.51%) CASB
8 2 (0.51%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.25%) Grafana
9 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.25%) Puppet
9 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.25%) SCCM
9 1 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 98 (24.94%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.94%) Splunk
3 30 (7.63%) LogRhythm
4 22 (5.60%) Qualys
5 19 (4.83%) Varonis
6 16 (4.07%) Forcepoint
7 15 (3.82%) Darktrace
8 14 (3.56%) FireEye
9 13 (3.31%) Red Hat
9 13 (3.31%) ServiceNow
10 10 (2.54%) Cisco
11 9 (2.29%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (1.78%) Virgin Media
13 6 (1.53%) Palo Alto
14 4 (1.02%) ArcSight
15 3 (0.76%) AlienVault
15 3 (0.76%) ForeScout
15 3 (0.76%) Intel
15 3 (0.76%) Rapid7
15 3 (0.76%) Zscaler