Security Monitoring Contracts in the City of London

Security Monitoring
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Security Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Monitoring 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 116 117 170
Rank change year-on-year +1 +53 +10
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 3 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.46% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.50% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 7
10th Percentile £473 £419 £640
25th Percentile £488 £500 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +7.41% +8.87%
75th Percentile £659 £925 £820
90th Percentile £702 - £842
Central London median daily rate £525 £725 £675
% change year-on-year -27.59% +7.41% +8.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Security Monitoring 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Security Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Security Monitoring in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Monitoring in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BIG-IP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Key Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) OPNET
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Infoblox
1 1 (33.33%) Meraki
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) Rapid7