Security Operations Contracts in the North of England

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 148 195
Rank change year-on-year -22 +47 -21
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 15 70 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.32% 1.21% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 1.33% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 46 41
10th Percentile £481 £400 £481
25th Percentile £554 £513 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £606 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -6.77% +52.94%
75th Percentile £825 £700 £763
90th Percentile £988 £1,013 -
England median daily rate £600 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,026 5,268 6,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.79% 90.69% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 3,659 4,646
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 207 257
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.45%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £29.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.07
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in the North of England

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in the North of England

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in the North of England

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
North West -25 9 £625 +3.14% 15
Yorkshire +14 6 £784 +43.15% 10
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
1 5 (33.33%) ServiceNow Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) SOC Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Security Advisor
4 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (26.67%) CSS
1 4 (26.67%) HTML
2 3 (20.00%) LDAP
3 2 (13.33%) SAML
4 1 (6.67%) Ajax
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) SOAP
4 1 (6.67%) Web Services
4 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) CMDB
2 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (26.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (20.00%) Operational Technology
4 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (6.67%) Insider Threat
5 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Agile
1 6 (40.00%) Change Management
2 5 (33.33%) Compliance Management
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 5 (33.33%) Information Security
2 5 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
2 5 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 5 (33.33%) SIEM
3 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (26.67%) ITSM
3 4 (26.67%) Service Catalogue
3 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
3 4 (26.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) Go
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (13.33%) CISSP
4 1 (6.67%) CISM
4 1 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (6.67%) GIAC
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) NIST
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (6.67%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) ServiceNow
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (6.67%) Carbon Black
4 1 (6.67%) Intel
4 1 (6.67%) Proofpoint
4 1 (6.67%) Symantec
4 1 (6.67%) Zscaler