Security Operations Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Security Operations (SecOps)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 53 57
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.09% 0.40% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.49% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £723 £700 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £745 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% - -
75th Percentile £768 £800 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £17.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £80.68 £11.25 -
% change year-on-year +617.11% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Security Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 244 410 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.41% 82.83% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 148 284
10th Percentile £296 £200 £200
25th Percentile £402 £350 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £550 £553 £536
90th Percentile £650 £683 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 194 150
10th Percentile £14.86 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £22.93 £52.25 £22.06
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Cambridgeshire

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in Cambridgeshire

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Cambridge +12 2 - - 9
Security Operations
East of England

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 1 (33.33%) Fire and Rescue
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (66.67%) Case Management
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Data Enrichment
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) SOAR
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Email Management
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk