Security Monitoring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Monitoring
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 325 436
Rank change year-on-year +28 +111 -35
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 90 112 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.49% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.54% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 67 59
10th Percentile £457 £325 £456
25th Percentile £463 £449 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £526
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.10% +4.58%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £588 £696 £690
UK median daily rate £505 £600 £581
% change year-on-year -15.83% +3.23% +5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £65.18 - -
25th Percentile £67.31 £27.00 -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £29.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +150.86% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 £31.00 -
90th Percentile £77.33 - -
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £63.25 -
% change year-on-year +15.02% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,110 20,642 27,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.43% 89.51% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,201 14,252 18,911
10th Percentile £250 £255 £236
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £476
Median % change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,261 1,359
10th Percentile £12.31 £10.75 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.71 £61.30
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Security Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Security Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Security Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
South West +44 39 £495 -19.18% 3
South East +7 18 £490 -6.67% 10
Scotland +50 15 £515 +14.44% 5
Midlands +29 11 £550 -6.38% 3
West Midlands +16 11 £550 -6.38% 2
East of England +12 3 £575 -17.86% 1
North West -1 3 £676 +15.56% 2
North of England -15 3 £676 +17.57% 5
Wales +20 1 £450 +125.00%
Security Monitoring
UK

Security Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 34 (37.78%) Confluence
1 34 (37.78%) SharePoint
1 34 (37.78%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (51.11%) Azure
2 35 (38.89%) Azure Stack
3 4 (4.44%) AWS
3 4 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.44%) SaaS
4 3 (3.33%) Azure API Management
4 3 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.33%) IaaS
4 3 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (1.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (1.11%) Azure App Service
5 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.11%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 42 (46.67%) Firewall
2 34 (37.78%) BGP
3 16 (17.78%) DNS
4 13 (14.44%) WAN
5 10 (11.11%) SD-WAN
6 9 (10.00%) TCP/IP
7 7 (7.78%) DHCP
8 5 (5.56%) Network Security
9 3 (3.33%) VPN
10 2 (2.22%) Internet
10 2 (2.22%) LAN
11 1 (1.11%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (1.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (37.78%) JIRA
2 4 (4.44%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.22%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.11%) Git
4 1 (1.11%) NUnit
General
1 40 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.89%) Organisational Skills
3 14 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.22%) Automotive
4 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 26 (28.89%) Analyst
2 17 (18.89%) Microsoft Engineer
3 13 (14.44%) Security Analyst
4 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) WAN Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 8 (8.89%) Senior
8 7 (7.78%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (7.78%) Senior Security Analyst
9 6 (6.67%) Lead
10 5 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
10 5 (5.56%) Service Analyst
10 5 (5.56%) Service Management Analyst
10 5 (5.56%) Support Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Security Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) .NET
2 3 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (40.00%) Private Cloud
2 14 (15.56%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.44%) Operational Technology
4 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) IoT
5 2 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.22%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.11%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 57 (63.33%) Windows
2 19 (21.11%) Linux
3 11 (12.22%) Windows Server
4 9 (10.00%) Unix
5 7 (7.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (51.11%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (40.00%) Capacity Management
2 36 (40.00%) ITIL
2 36 (40.00%) Network Management
2 36 (40.00%) Service Management
3 32 (35.56%) ITSM
4 21 (23.33%) Information Security
4 21 (23.33%) SIEM
5 17 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (15.56%) Vulnerability Management
7 13 (14.44%) Cloud Security
8 12 (13.33%) Incident Management
9 11 (12.22%) Backlog Management
9 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (12.22%) Knowledge Transfer
9 11 (12.22%) Privileged Access Management
10 10 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
10 10 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
10 10 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
10 10 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.22%) C#
2 10 (11.11%) Java
3 3 (3.33%) PHP
3 3 (3.33%) Python
3 3 (3.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 42 (46.67%) DV Cleared
3 12 (13.33%) Degree
4 10 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 8 (8.89%) CISM
5 8 (8.89%) CISSP
6 7 (7.78%) CISA
7 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.44%) CGEIT
7 4 (4.44%) CRISC
7 4 (4.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 3 (3.33%) Master's Degree
8 3 (3.33%) MBA
9 2 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.11%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (1.11%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (37.78%) Government Security Classifications
2 15 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (12.22%) NIST
4 10 (11.11%) ISO 9000
5 9 (10.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (4.44%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (1.11%) COBIT
System Software
1 12 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.78%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.78%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (7.78%) VMware NSX
3 5 (5.56%) Docker
4 3 (3.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 26 (28.89%) SCOM
2 9 (10.00%) SCCM
3 7 (7.78%) vCenter Server
4 5 (5.56%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.44%) Nessus
6 3 (3.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 3 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.22%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (2.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 52 (57.78%) Microsoft
2 36 (40.00%) Atlassian
3 13 (14.44%) Cisco
4 12 (13.33%) VMware
5 7 (7.78%) Veeam
6 4 (4.44%) Fujitsu
7 3 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.22%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.22%) Citrix
8 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.22%) Splunk
9 1 (1.11%) ForeScout
9 1 (1.11%) Netskope
9 1 (1.11%) Salesforce