Security Operations Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Operations (SecOps)
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 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 162 241 314
Rank change year-on-year +79 +73 +5
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 274 226 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.33% 0.95% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.06% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 157 164
10th Percentile £425 £400 £378
25th Percentile £495 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £613 £555
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +10.36% +7.77%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £608 £600
% change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% +14.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - £76.85 £44.70
25th Percentile - £82.25 £50.29
Median hourly rate £11.25 £92.50 £61.23
Median % change year-on-year -87.84% +51.08% +410.21%
75th Percentile - £96.88 £72.79
90th Percentile - £98.75 £78.77
UK median hourly rate £11.25 £84.50 £41.95
% change year-on-year -86.69% +101.43% +16.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in the UK excluding London

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in the UK excluding London

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in the UK excluding London

Security Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Operations in the UK excluding London

Security Operations
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 Operations within the UK excluding London 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
South West +95 127 £570 -8.80% 17
South East +40 52 £533 -13.89% 35
Midlands +29 44 £618 -4.56% 22
West Midlands +29 41 £629 -3.17% 14
Scotland +40 21 £500 -9.09% 11
East of England +10 17 £650 +8.33% 13
North of England -22 15 £625 +3.14% 27
North West -25 9 £625 +3.14% 15
Yorkshire +14 6 £784 +43.15% 10
East Midlands +14 3 £567 -7.65% 8
Security Operations
UK

Security Operations
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 13 (4.74%) CMS
2 2 (0.73%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Dynamics GP
1 3 (1.09%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (10.22%) Azure
2 15 (5.47%) Azure Sentinel
3 11 (4.01%) AWS
4 7 (2.55%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (0.73%) GCP
7 2 (0.73%) GitHub
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.36%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.36%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 36 (13.14%) Network Security
2 26 (9.49%) Firewall
3 16 (5.84%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.09%) Broadband
5 3 (1.09%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (1.09%) SSL
6 2 (0.73%) DNS
6 2 (0.73%) LAN
6 2 (0.73%) WAN
6 2 (0.73%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.74%) Big Data
2 3 (1.09%) Power BI
3 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.73%) GitLab
2 2 (0.73%) JIRA
General
1 52 (18.98%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.61%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (9.49%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.47%) Finance
5 13 (4.74%) Manufacturing
6 11 (4.01%) Military
7 9 (3.28%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.82%) Banking
10 3 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Electronics
11 2 (0.73%) Games
11 2 (0.73%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 125 (45.62%) Analyst
2 75 (27.37%) SOC Analyst
3 33 (12.04%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 28 (10.22%) Senior
5 25 (9.12%) SOC Engineer
6 24 (8.76%) Security Specialist
7 23 (8.39%) Lead
7 23 (8.39%) Security Analyst
8 20 (7.30%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 20 (7.30%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 17 (6.20%) Architect
10 13 (4.74%) Senior Analyst
10 13 (4.74%) SOC Manager
11 10 (3.65%) IT Security Specialist
11 10 (3.65%) Lead Architect
11 10 (3.65%) Security Engineer
11 10 (3.65%) Security Operations Specialist
12 9 (3.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 9 (3.28%) Operations Analyst
12 9 (3.28%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.74%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (1.46%) AngularJS
2 4 (1.46%) CSS
2 4 (1.46%) HTML
2 4 (1.46%) SOAP
2 4 (1.46%) XML
3 3 (1.09%) LDAP
4 2 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.73%) SAML
5 1 (0.36%) Ajax
5 1 (0.36%) JSON
5 1 (0.36%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 124 (45.26%) Security Operations Centre
2 60 (21.90%) Management Information System
3 47 (17.15%) CSOC
4 43 (15.69%) Cyber Threat
5 32 (11.68%) Cyber Defence
6 17 (6.20%) Security Posture
7 15 (5.47%) Distributed Applications
8 13 (4.74%) Cyberattack
9 9 (3.28%) Onboarding
10 8 (2.92%) CESG
10 8 (2.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 8 (2.92%) Operational Technology
11 6 (2.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 5 (1.82%) CMDB
13 4 (1.46%) PKI
14 2 (0.73%) CCTV
14 2 (0.73%) Cloud Native
14 2 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
14 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.88%) Windows
2 43 (15.69%) Linux
3 11 (4.01%) Android
3 11 (4.01%) Apple iOS
3 11 (4.01%) Unix
4 7 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (65.69%) Cybersecurity
2 141 (51.46%) SIEM
3 125 (45.62%) Incident Response
4 77 (28.10%) Information Security
5 70 (25.55%) Threat Intelligence
6 53 (19.34%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 51 (18.61%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 48 (17.52%) Analytics
9 47 (17.15%) Vulnerability Management
10 43 (15.69%) Use Case
11 39 (14.23%) SOAR
12 34 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (10.95%) Agile
13 30 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (10.58%) Malware Analysis
14 29 (10.58%) OSINT
15 28 (10.22%) ITIL
15 28 (10.22%) Open Source
16 27 (9.85%) Data Security
17 26 (9.49%) Cyber Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.65%) Kusto Query Language
2 8 (2.92%) PowerShell
2 8 (2.92%) Python
3 5 (1.82%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.73%) Go
4 2 (0.73%) Java
4 2 (0.73%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (0.36%) Bash
5 1 (0.36%) C
5 1 (0.36%) C++
5 1 (0.36%) Perl
5 1 (0.36%) Ruby
5 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 169 (61.68%) Security Cleared
2 110 (40.15%) DV Cleared
3 53 (19.34%) SC Cleared
4 47 (17.15%) Degree
5 34 (12.41%) CISSP
6 24 (8.76%) SANS
7 21 (7.66%) CISM
8 19 (6.93%) CompTIA Security+
9 11 (4.01%) CEH
9 11 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.92%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.92%) CISA
10 8 (2.92%) CISMP
10 8 (2.92%) ISACA
10 8 (2.92%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (2.92%) SSCP
11 5 (1.82%) MCSE
12 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.73%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.58%) GDPR
2 26 (9.49%) NIST
3 17 (6.20%) NCSC
4 15 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (5.47%) PCI DSS
5 13 (4.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (4.38%) NIST 800
7 11 (4.01%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.46%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (1.46%) QA
10 3 (1.09%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.73%) RMADS
11 2 (0.73%) SLA
12 1 (0.36%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.46%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.73%) Docker
4 2 (0.73%) XenApp
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.46%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 4 (1.46%) Nessus
1 4 (1.46%) SCCM
2 3 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (1.09%) Terraform
3 2 (0.73%) Ansible
3 2 (0.73%) Kibana
3 2 (0.73%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.73%) logstash
3 2 (0.73%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 60 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.14%) Splunk
3 30 (10.95%) LogRhythm
4 21 (7.66%) Qualys
5 17 (6.20%) Varonis
6 16 (5.84%) Forcepoint
7 15 (5.47%) Darktrace
8 14 (5.11%) FireEye
9 13 (4.74%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.92%) ServiceNow
11 7 (2.55%) Virgin Media
12 6 (2.19%) Cisco
13 3 (1.09%) Sage
13 3 (1.09%) VMware
14 2 (0.73%) Atlassian
14 2 (0.73%) CheckPoint
14 2 (0.73%) Citrix
14 2 (0.73%) SAP
14 2 (0.73%) Zscaler
15 1 (0.36%) ForeScout