Security Operations Contract Job Trends in Central London

Security Operations (SecOps)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Security Operations skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 113 132
Rank change year-on-year +2 +19 +40
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 16 17 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.82% 0.74% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.80% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 20
10th Percentile £444 £426 £395
25th Percentile £488 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -5.98% -6.40%
75th Percentile £734 £725 £688
90th Percentile £801 £775 £859
London median daily rate £550 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,828 2,117 2,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.89% 92.04% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,370 2,025
10th Percentile £318 £375 £358
25th Percentile £418 £475 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £774 £787 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 17
10th Percentile £18.96 £17.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.28 £16.61
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%
75th Percentile £50.75 £41.75 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £59.30
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.67% +7.82%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Central London

Security Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Security Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in Central London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in Central London

Security Operations
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Security Operations.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
City of London +6 15 £550 - 19
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £450 -
Security Operations
London

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.25%) Datadog
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Network Security
2 2 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) FTP
3 1 (6.25%) HTTP
3 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (6.25%) SMTP
3 1 (6.25%) SSL
3 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Military
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Security Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Architect
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Security Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Operational Security Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Operations Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Security Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Security Operations Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (18.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (18.75%) Security Operations Centre
1 3 (18.75%) Security Posture
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) CSOC
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) CMDB
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (56.25%) SIEM
3 7 (43.75%) Incident Response
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) SOAR
5 4 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Threat Detection
7 2 (12.50%) Agile
7 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
7 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 2 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
7 2 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Security Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CISSP
2 2 (12.50%) CEH
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) CISM
3 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) ISSMP
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (25.00%) NIST
2 3 (18.75%) PCI DSS
3 2 (12.50%) SLA
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (6.25%) GDPR
4 1 (6.25%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Nessus
1 1 (6.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Splunk
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (12.50%) Tenable
4 1 (6.25%) F5
4 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) Qualys