Security Operations Contracts in the East of England

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 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 62 95 97
Rank change year-on-year +33 +2 +42
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 20 17 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.13% 0.89% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 1.03% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 24
10th Percentile - £460 -
25th Percentile £575 £575 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 - £631
90th Percentile £716 £680 -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £622
% change year-on-year -4.17% -3.54% +3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £27.52 - -
25th Percentile £46.31 - -
Median hourly rate £80.68 £11.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +617.11% - -
75th Percentile £81.01 - -
90th Percentile £81.67 - -
England median hourly rate £67.59 £11.25 £84.50
% change year-on-year +500.78% -86.69% +125.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in the East of England

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in the East of England

Security Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Operations in the East of England

Security Operations
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Operations in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Operations in the East of England

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hertfordshire +33 17 £600 -7.69% 32
Cambridgeshire +11 3 £745 -0.67% 4
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) DNS
1 10 (50.00%) FTP
1 10 (50.00%) HTTP
1 10 (50.00%) SMTP
1 10 (50.00%) SSL
2 8 (40.00%) Network Security
3 2 (10.00%) Firewall
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Law
4 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Analyst
1 13 (65.00%) SOC Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Junior
3 3 (15.00%) Junior Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Auditor
4 2 (10.00%) IT Auditor
4 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Auditor
4 2 (10.00%) Senior IT Auditor
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Coordinator
5 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Security Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (80.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 14 (70.00%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (45.00%) Cyberattack
4 8 (40.00%) CSOC
5 6 (30.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (30.00%) Management Information System
6 4 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (5.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (70.00%) Incident Response
3 10 (50.00%) SIEM
3 10 (50.00%) Threat Detection
4 8 (40.00%) Information Management
4 8 (40.00%) Information Security
5 6 (30.00%) Analytics
5 6 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (30.00%) Behavioural Analytics
5 6 (30.00%) Machine Learning
5 6 (30.00%) Network Packet Capture
6 2 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (10.00%) Case Management
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (10.00%) Cyber Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) IT Audit
6 2 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (10.00%) SOAR
6 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) CISSP
4 2 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (10.00%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.00%) NIST
1 2 (10.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Splunk
2 4 (20.00%) Darktrace
2 4 (20.00%) FireEye
2 4 (20.00%) LogRhythm
3 2 (10.00%) Google
3 2 (10.00%) IronPort
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (10.00%) Symantec