Security Monitoring Contracts

Security Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 429 510 673
Rank change year-on-year +81 +163 -61
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 142 182 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.32% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.36% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 126 131
10th Percentile £419 £413 £450
25th Percentile £463 £508 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +5.50%
75th Percentile £579 £650 £650
90th Percentile £719 £697 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.05% +4.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £65.18 £33.43 -
25th Percentile £67.31 £43.06 -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £63.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 £85.56 -
90th Percentile £77.33 £96.48 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.75 £29.00 -
% change year-on-year +150.86% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Security Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring.

Daily rate trend for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring.

Hourly rate trend for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 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
England +66 122 £500 -16.67% 44
UK excluding London +32 85 £500 -4.76% 30
London +93 51 £525 -12.50% 22
Work from Home +103 45 £500 -13.04% 27
South West +36 34 £495 -19.18% 3
South East +4 18 £490 -6.67% 4
Scotland +45 15 £515 +14.44% 8
Midlands +33 12 £550 - 3
West Midlands +16 12 £550 - 2
North West +3 3 £676 +15.56% 5
North of England -7 3 £676 +17.57% 11
East of England +12 2 £575 -2.13%
Wales +19 1 £450 +125.00%

Security Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 32 (22.54%) Confluence
2 31 (21.83%) SharePoint
3 29 (20.42%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.70%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 50 (35.21%) Azure
2 30 (21.13%) Azure Stack
3 14 (9.86%) GCP
4 13 (9.15%) AWS
5 11 (7.75%) Google Compute Engine
5 11 (7.75%) Vertex AI
6 7 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (4.23%) SaaS
8 5 (3.52%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.82%) IaaS
9 4 (2.82%) PaaS
10 3 (2.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (2.11%) Azure API Management
10 3 (2.11%) Azure Event Grid
10 3 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.70%) AWS IoT
12 1 (0.70%) Azure App Service
12 1 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 48 (33.80%) Firewall
2 29 (20.42%) BGP
3 16 (11.27%) DNS
4 15 (10.56%) WAN
5 14 (9.86%) Network Security
6 12 (8.45%) TCP/IP
7 10 (7.04%) SD-WAN
8 7 (4.93%) DHCP
9 6 (4.23%) Internet
10 4 (2.82%) VPN
11 3 (2.11%) FTP
11 3 (2.11%) HTTP
11 3 (2.11%) ICMP
11 3 (2.11%) POP3
11 3 (2.11%) SMTP
11 3 (2.11%) SSH
11 3 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (1.41%) LAN
13 1 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
13 1 (0.70%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.45%) BigQuery
2 3 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.70%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.70%) Power BI
3 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (22.54%) JIRA
2 4 (2.82%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.41%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.41%) Git
3 2 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.70%) GitLab
4 1 (0.70%) NUnit
4 1 (0.70%) Subversion
General
1 53 (37.32%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.08%) Public Sector
3 15 (10.56%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (5.63%) Finance
5 5 (3.52%) Banking
6 4 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.41%) Automotive
7 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.41%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Law
8 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (23.94%) Analyst
2 16 (11.27%) Security Analyst
3 15 (10.56%) Microsoft Engineer
4 14 (9.86%) Senior
5 13 (9.15%) Architect
5 13 (9.15%) Security Engineer
6 12 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (7.04%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 10 (7.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 10 (7.04%) WAN Engineer
8 9 (6.34%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (5.63%) Lead
9 8 (5.63%) Senior Security Analyst
10 7 (4.93%) GCP Architect
11 6 (4.23%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) Security Architect
11 6 (4.23%) SOC Analyst
12 5 (3.52%) 2nd Line Support
12 5 (3.52%) Service Analyst
12 5 (3.52%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.52%) .NET
2 3 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (21.83%) Private Cloud
2 21 (14.79%) Management Information System
3 13 (9.15%) Security Posture
4 10 (7.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 7 (4.93%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (4.23%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.82%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (2.11%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.41%) IoT
10 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.70%) CSOC
10 1 (0.70%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (42.25%) Windows
2 26 (18.31%) Linux
3 14 (9.86%) Unix
3 14 (9.86%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (40.85%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (25.35%) Information Security
3 35 (24.65%) SIEM
4 32 (22.54%) ITIL
5 31 (21.83%) Capacity Management
5 31 (21.83%) Network Management
5 31 (21.83%) Service Management
6 30 (21.13%) ITSM
7 29 (20.42%) Vulnerability Management
8 24 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (16.90%) Security Operations
9 23 (16.20%) Cloud Security
10 22 (15.49%) Identity Access Management
11 19 (13.38%) Incident Response
12 18 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (12.68%) Penetration Testing
13 16 (11.27%) Incident Management
14 15 (10.56%) Computer Science
14 15 (10.56%) Use Case
14 15 (10.56%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.97%) Python
2 13 (9.15%) Bash
3 12 (8.45%) C#
4 10 (7.04%) Java
5 3 (2.11%) PHP
5 3 (2.11%) Ruby
5 3 (2.11%) SQL
6 2 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 62 (43.66%) Security Cleared
2 38 (26.76%) DV Cleared
3 23 (16.20%) Degree
4 16 (11.27%) SC Cleared
5 15 (10.56%) CISSP
6 12 (8.45%) CISM
7 11 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (5.63%) CISA
9 6 (4.23%) GIAC
10 5 (3.52%) GCIH
11 4 (2.82%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.82%) CGEIT
11 4 (2.82%) CRISC
11 4 (2.82%) GCIA
11 4 (2.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 3 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (2.11%) Master's Degree
12 3 (2.11%) MBA
13 2 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.70%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (20.42%) Government Security Classifications
2 21 (14.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (13.38%) NIST
4 10 (7.04%) ISO 9000
5 9 (6.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 7 (4.93%) PCI DSS
7 5 (3.52%) NCSC
8 4 (2.82%) COBIT
9 3 (2.11%) GDPR
10 2 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (1.41%) QA
11 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.70%) GLBA
11 1 (0.70%) ISAE 3402
11 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (8.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (7.04%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.93%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (4.93%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.52%) Docker
6 3 (2.11%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.41%) XenApp
8 1 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (14.79%) SCOM
2 13 (9.15%) Terraform
3 11 (7.75%) SCCM
4 7 (4.93%) Kubernetes
4 7 (4.93%) Nessus
4 7 (4.93%) QRadar
4 7 (4.93%) vCenter Server
5 5 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.11%) CASB
6 3 (2.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 3 (2.11%) CSIRT
6 3 (2.11%) Kibana
6 3 (2.11%) logstash
7 2 (1.41%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (1.41%) RSA Archer
7 2 (1.41%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.70%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 56 (39.44%) Microsoft
2 31 (21.83%) Atlassian
3 14 (9.86%) Cisco
4 12 (8.45%) VMware
5 7 (4.93%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (4.93%) Veeam
6 6 (4.23%) Splunk
7 4 (2.82%) Fujitsu
7 4 (2.82%) Netskope
7 4 (2.82%) Oracle
8 3 (2.11%) ArcSight
8 3 (2.11%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (2.11%) Databricks
8 3 (2.11%) Qualys
8 3 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.41%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.41%) Citrix
9 2 (1.41%) Imperva
9 2 (1.41%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.41%) Red Hat