Security Operations Contracts in Central London

Security Operations (SecOps)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 114 145
Rank change year-on-year +1 +31 +22
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 17 20 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.87% 0.85% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.93% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 21
10th Percentile £450 £424 £450
25th Percentile £488 £441 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £585
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +11.11% -5.65%
75th Percentile £713 £725 £675
90th Percentile £760 £778 £775
London median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%

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 1,830 2,141 3,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.51% 91.26% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,186 1,498 2,266
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £687 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £587
% change year-on-year - -6.34% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 23 27
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.50 £17.56
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%
75th Percentile £49.75 £36.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £48.57 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +6.67% -25.47% +11.17%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in Central London

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in Central London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in Central London

Security Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Operations in Central London

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 1 July 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 0 16 £600 -7.69% 54
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £450 - 2
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 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.88%) Datadog
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) FTP
2 1 (5.88%) HTTP
2 1 (5.88%) SMTP
2 1 (5.88%) SSL
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Security Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Operations Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Security Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Security Operations Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow Architect
5 2 (11.76%) SOC Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Architect
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Security Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Operational Security Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Security Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (5.88%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (17.65%) Security Posture
3 2 (11.76%) CSOC
3 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.88%) CMDB
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (58.82%) SIEM
2 8 (47.06%) Incident Response
3 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) SOAR
4 4 (23.53%) Threat Detection
4 4 (23.53%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (17.65%) Agile
5 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) ITSM
5 3 (17.65%) Migration
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.76%) ITIL
6 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.76%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
6 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) Service Management
6 2 (11.76%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 3 (17.65%) Bash
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) CISSP
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) CEH
2 2 (11.76%) CISM
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (17.65%) NIST
2 2 (11.76%) GRC
2 2 (11.76%) SLA
3 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Nessus
1 1 (5.88%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Splunk
2 5 (29.41%) ServiceNow
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 2 (11.76%) Qualys
5 1 (5.88%) Ariba
5 1 (5.88%) Tenable