Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Security Monitoring
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.43% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile £460 - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 786 489 597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.43% 87.01% 83.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 296 425
10th Percentile £188 £229 £213
25th Percentile £350 £318 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £525 £539 £563
90th Percentile £625 £631 £674
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 23 43
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.48 £11.86
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +12.50% +18.84%
75th Percentile £24.49 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Security Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Monitoring within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Northamptonshire - 4 £388 - 2
Security Monitoring
England

Security Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) SOAR
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Tenable