Security Operations Contracts in the East Midlands

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Security Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 78 95
Rank change year-on-year +19 +17 -26
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 3 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.39% 0.78% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.88% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 2
10th Percentile £483 £513 £469
25th Percentile £515 £583 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £614 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +19.80% +57.69%
75th Percentile £584 £654 £553
90th Percentile £593 £716 £566
England median daily rate £600 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Security Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 600 904 1,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.43% 88.28% 83.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 696 844
10th Percentile £200 £206 £210
25th Percentile £269 £330 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £455 £440
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +3.41% +12.82%
75th Percentile £561 £575 £522
90th Percentile £625 £700 £613
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 59 80
10th Percentile £11.33 £11.80 £9.73
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.67
Median hourly rate £17.00 £20.32 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.34% +1.60% +36.99%
75th Percentile £26.15 £51.50 £28.91
90th Percentile £38.75 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in the East Midlands

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in the East Midlands

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in the East Midlands

Security Operations
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 Operations within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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 -1 1 £567 -7.65% 2
Leicestershire - 1 £475 -
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials