Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Security Monitoring
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 121 140
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 +50
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 5 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.29% 0.47% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.51% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £479 £425 £525
25th Percentile £504 £428 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £450 £663
Median % change year-on-year +26.11% -32.08% -3.64%
75th Percentile £639 £538 £828
90th Percentile £670 £558 £875
Central London median daily rate £568 £450 £663
% change year-on-year +26.11% -32.08% +1.92%

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 1,613 1,951 2,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.33% 92.07% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,209 1,783
10th Percentile £325 £367 £373
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
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 £768 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £17.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.63 £24.09 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.04 £40.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.25% +29.60% -27.53%
75th Percentile £35.88 £107.13 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -35.67%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Security Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Security Monitoring

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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 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Security Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) Network Security
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) BGP
4 1 (20.00%) DNS
4 1 (20.00%) OSPF
4 1 (20.00%) SSL
4 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (20.00%) STIX
1 1 (20.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (20.00%) Purple Team
3 1 (20.00%) Red Team
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) SOAR
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (20.00%) GCFA
1 1 (20.00%) GCIA
1 1 (20.00%) GCIH
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) AlgoSec
3 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (20.00%) Exabeam
3 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) Tenable
3 1 (20.00%) Tufin
3 1 (20.00%) Zscaler