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 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 216 288
Rank change year-on-year +43 +72 +28
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 260 241 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.22% 1.06% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.19% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 167 195
10th Percentile £425 £390 £379
25th Percentile £475 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% +12.20%
75th Percentile £660 £686 £692
90th Percentile £700 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £595 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -0.83% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £76.85 -
25th Percentile - £82.25 £40.98
Median hourly rate £11.25 £92.50 £41.95
Median % change year-on-year -87.84% +120.50% +249.58%
75th Percentile £35.00 £96.88 £42.93
90th Percentile £49.25 £98.75 -
UK median hourly rate £11.25 £84.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -86.69% +125.33% +4.17%

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 17,592 20,238 27,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.79% 89.10% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,357 13,876 18,979
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,189 1,255 1,329
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.46 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +0.65%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.97 £74.92 £63.05
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 10 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Operations in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 10 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 West +75 111 £570 -5.00% 18
South East +44 56 £500 -20.00% 21
Midlands +3 40 £635 -1.85% 17
West Midlands +11 39 £640 -1.54% 12
Scotland +39 18 £500 +9.29% 8
East of England +1 18 £650 +140.74% 9
North of England -37 17 £625 +4.17% 31
North West -45 9 £625 +4.17% 18
Yorkshire -1 8 £663 +16.23% 12
East Midlands +3 1 £567 -6.44% 5
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 15 (5.77%) CMS
2 2 (0.77%) Apache
2 2 (0.77%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.77%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.54%) Azure
2 12 (4.62%) Azure Sentinel
3 11 (4.23%) AWS
4 8 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (3.08%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (1.15%) GCP
6 2 (0.77%) GitHub
7 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.38%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.38%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 38 (14.62%) Network Security
2 26 (10.00%) Firewall
3 21 (8.08%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (2.31%) SSL
5 5 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.54%) DNS
7 3 (1.15%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.77%) Broadband
8 2 (0.77%) FTP
8 2 (0.77%) HTTP
8 2 (0.77%) Internet
8 2 (0.77%) LAN
8 2 (0.77%) SMTP
8 2 (0.77%) WAN
8 2 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.54%) Big Data
2 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
1 2 (0.77%) GitLab
1 2 (0.77%) JIRA
1 2 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.38%) Git
General
1 47 (18.08%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.62%) Manufacturing
5 10 (3.85%) Military
5 10 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 7 (2.69%) Finance
7 6 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.54%) Banking
9 3 (1.15%) Games
10 1 (0.38%) Electronics
10 1 (0.38%) Legal
10 1 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 115 (44.23%) Analyst
2 75 (28.85%) SOC Analyst
3 29 (11.15%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 26 (10.00%) Senior
5 25 (9.62%) Lead
6 24 (9.23%) Security Specialist
7 20 (7.69%) Security Analyst
8 17 (6.54%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 17 (6.54%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 16 (6.15%) SOC Engineer
10 13 (5.00%) Architect
10 13 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
10 13 (5.00%) SOC Manager
11 10 (3.85%) IT Security Specialist
11 10 (3.85%) Lead Architect
11 10 (3.85%) Security Operations Specialist
12 9 (3.46%) Consultant
12 9 (3.46%) Security Engineer
13 8 (3.08%) Operations Analyst
13 8 (3.08%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.54%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (1.92%) LDAP
3 4 (1.54%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.54%) CSS
3 4 (1.54%) HTML
4 3 (1.15%) SOAP
4 3 (1.15%) XML
5 2 (0.77%) .NET
5 2 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.77%) SAML
6 1 (0.38%) Ajax
6 1 (0.38%) J2EE
6 1 (0.38%) JSON
6 1 (0.38%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.38%) REST
6 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 113 (43.46%) Security Operations Centre
2 58 (22.31%) Management Information System
3 47 (18.08%) CSOC
3 47 (18.08%) Cyber Threat
4 36 (13.85%) Cyber Defence
5 19 (7.31%) Distributed Applications
6 13 (5.00%) Cyberattack
7 12 (4.62%) Security Posture
8 8 (3.08%) CESG
8 8 (3.08%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (2.69%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.31%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 5 (1.92%) CMDB
11 5 (1.92%) PKI
12 2 (0.77%) CCTV
12 2 (0.77%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.77%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 55 (21.15%) Windows
2 48 (18.46%) Linux
3 15 (5.77%) Android
3 15 (5.77%) Apple iOS
3 15 (5.77%) Unix
4 8 (3.08%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.77%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (68.46%) Cybersecurity
2 131 (50.38%) SIEM
3 119 (45.77%) Incident Response
4 78 (30.00%) Information Security
5 68 (26.15%) Threat Intelligence
6 49 (18.85%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 48 (18.46%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 48 (18.46%) Vulnerability Management
8 46 (17.69%) Analytics
9 43 (16.54%) Use Case
10 41 (15.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (12.31%) Agile
11 32 (12.31%) ITIL
12 30 (11.54%) SOAR
13 28 (10.77%) OSINT
13 28 (10.77%) Security Architecture
14 27 (10.38%) Actionable Insight
14 27 (10.38%) Cyber Intelligence
15 26 (10.00%) Data Security
16 25 (9.62%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.85%) PowerShell
2 9 (3.46%) Python
3 7 (2.69%) JavaScript
3 7 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (0.77%) Bash
4 2 (0.77%) Go
4 2 (0.77%) Java
4 2 (0.77%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (0.38%) C
5 1 (0.38%) C#
5 1 (0.38%) C++
5 1 (0.38%) Perl
5 1 (0.38%) Ruby
5 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 154 (59.23%) Security Cleared
2 104 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 43 (16.54%) Degree
4 42 (16.15%) SC Cleared
5 24 (9.23%) CISSP
5 24 (9.23%) SANS
6 17 (6.54%) CISM
7 12 (4.62%) CEH
7 12 (4.62%) CompTIA Security+
8 11 (4.23%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (3.08%) CISA
10 8 (3.08%) CISMP
10 8 (3.08%) ISACA
10 8 (3.08%) SSCP
11 7 (2.69%) MCSE
12 5 (1.92%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.77%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.77%) GDPR
2 27 (10.38%) NIST
3 17 (6.54%) Actionable Recommendations
3 17 (6.54%) NCSC
4 15 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (5.77%) PCI DSS
5 12 (4.62%) NIST 800
6 11 (4.23%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.54%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.54%) QA
8 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.77%) GRC
9 2 (0.77%) RMADS
9 2 (0.77%) SLA
10 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 11 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.92%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.77%) Docker
4 2 (0.77%) XenApp
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (1.92%) SCCM
2 4 (1.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 4 (1.54%) Nessus
2 4 (1.54%) Terraform
3 3 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.77%) Ansible
4 2 (0.77%) Kibana
4 2 (0.77%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.77%) logstash
4 2 (0.77%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 52 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 33 (12.69%) Splunk
3 32 (12.31%) LogRhythm
4 17 (6.54%) Darktrace
4 17 (6.54%) Qualys
4 17 (6.54%) Red Hat
4 17 (6.54%) Varonis
5 16 (6.15%) FireEye
5 16 (6.15%) Forcepoint
6 8 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.69%) Virgin Media
8 6 (2.31%) Cisco
9 3 (1.15%) Sage
9 3 (1.15%) Symantec
9 3 (1.15%) VMware
10 2 (0.77%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.77%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.77%) Citrix
10 2 (0.77%) IronPort
10 2 (0.77%) Zscaler