Security Officer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Officer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Officer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £516, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 412 480
Rank change year-on-year +23 +68 -40
Contract jobs requiring a Security Officer 12 18 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.056% 0.079% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.084% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 17
10th Percentile £413 £208 £250
25th Percentile £495 £209 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £584 £644 £638
90th Percentile £600 £650 £800
UK median daily rate £508 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -21.92% +18.18% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £11.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £11.50 - £30.34

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Security Officer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Security Officer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Officer in the UK excluding London

Security Officer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Officer in the UK excluding London

Security Officer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Officer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Officer in the UK excluding London

Security Officer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Officer in the UK excluding London

Security Officer
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 Officer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 June 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 East +17 3 £600 - 3
Midlands +15 3 £500 -23.08% 5
East Midlands - 3 £500 - 1
Scotland +50 2 £516 -1.81% 7
South West - 2 - - 5
East of England +1 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £363 -
Security Officer
UK

Security Officer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 June 2024, Security Officer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Security Officer in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (58.33%) Information Security
4 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (41.67%) NIST
5 5 (41.67%) CISSP
5 5 (41.67%) CISM
6 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
6 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (25.00%) Finance
7 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
7 2 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
7 2 (16.67%) CEH
7 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (16.67%) Cisco
7 2 (16.67%) CCSP
7 2 (16.67%) CCNP
7 2 (16.67%) SABSA
7 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (16.67%) CCSK
7 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
7 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
7 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
7 2 (16.67%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (16.67%) Def Stans
7 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)

Security Officer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Cyber Security Posture
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (58.33%) Information Security
3 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 2 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (16.67%) Information Assurance
4 2 (16.67%) SABSA
4 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
5 1 (8.33%) Information Security Management
5 1 (8.33%) ISMS
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Security Management
5 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) CISM
2 5 (41.67%) CISSP
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (16.67%) CCNP
4 2 (16.67%) CCSK
4 2 (16.67%) CCSP
4 2 (16.67%) CEH
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (8.33%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (41.67%) NIST
3 2 (16.67%) Def Stans
3 2 (16.67%) GDPR
3 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (16.67%) NIST 800
3 2 (16.67%) PMO
4 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Barracuda Networks