Protective Monitoring Contracts in England

Protective Monitoring
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Protective Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Protective Monitoring over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 592 767
Rank change year-on-year +133 +175 -168
Contract jobs citing Protective Monitoring 79 56 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.11% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.12% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 32 17
10th Percentile £513 £500 -
25th Percentile £538 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £568 £618
Median % change year-on-year +13.66% -8.10% +26.67%
75th Percentile £850 £666 £745
90th Percentile - £749 £785
UK median daily rate £645 £568 £525
% change year-on-year +13.66% +8.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £51.70 -
25th Percentile - £54.74 £47.02
Median hourly rate - £59.80 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year - +23.89% -
75th Percentile - £60.25 £49.52
90th Percentile - £60.52 -
UK median hourly rate - £59.80 £48.27
% change year-on-year - +23.89% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Protective Monitoring 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,926 45,112 64,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 31,664 45,849
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,598 1,761
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Protective Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Protective Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Protective Monitoring in England

Protective Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Protective Monitoring in England.

Daily rate trend for Protective Monitoring in England

Protective Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Protective Monitoring in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Protective Monitoring in England

Protective Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Protective Monitoring in England.

Hourly rate trend for Protective Monitoring in England

Protective Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Protective Monitoring within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
South West +53 34 £544 -9.33% 3
South East +47 26 £800 +36.17% 2
Yorkshire +41 21 £800 +14.29% 4
North of England +25 21 £800 +36.17% 6
West Midlands +27 9 £582 -10.54%
Midlands +26 9 £582 +7.19%
London +102 5 £750 +36.36% 2
Protective Monitoring
UK

Protective Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (10.13%) Azure
2 6 (7.59%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (2.53%) Amazon S3
3 2 (2.53%) AWS
3 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.53%) IaaS
3 2 (2.53%) Route 53
3 2 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) Firewall
2 3 (3.80%) VPN
3 2 (2.53%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (2.53%) LAN
3 2 (2.53%) WAN
3 2 (2.53%) Wireless
3 2 (2.53%) WLAN
4 1 (1.27%) Network Security
4 1 (1.27%) SMS
4 1 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
General
1 50 (63.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.66%) Telecoms
3 8 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (43.04%) Analyst
2 23 (29.11%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 13 (16.46%) Consultant
4 11 (13.92%) Lead
4 11 (13.92%) SIEM Consultant
5 7 (8.86%) SOC Analyst
6 4 (5.06%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 4 (5.06%) Security Analyst
7 2 (2.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.53%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (2.53%) Security Consultant
7 2 (2.53%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (2.53%) Support Consultant
8 1 (1.27%) Architect
8 1 (1.27%) Incident Analyst
8 1 (1.27%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (1.27%) Network Architect
8 1 (1.27%) Network Engineer
8 1 (1.27%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (1.27%) SIEM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 73 (92.41%) Cyber Threat
2 67 (84.81%) Cyber Defence
3 64 (81.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 37 (46.84%) Management Information System
5 6 (7.59%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.80%) Linux
1 3 (3.80%) Windows
2 2 (2.53%) CentOS
2 2 (2.53%) Ubuntu
2 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (96.20%) Cybersecurity
2 65 (82.28%) SIEM
3 58 (73.42%) Incident Management
3 58 (73.42%) Incident Response
4 54 (68.35%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 48 (60.76%) Mentoring
6 45 (56.96%) Case Management
6 45 (56.96%) Root Cause Analysis
7 44 (55.70%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 44 (55.70%) Threat Intelligence
8 43 (54.43%) Information Security
9 39 (49.37%) SOAR
9 39 (49.37%) Use Case
10 36 (45.57%) CRM
11 14 (17.72%) Security Operations
12 8 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (7.59%) Computer Science
13 6 (7.59%) Dashboard Development
13 6 (7.59%) Ethical Hacking
13 6 (7.59%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 75 (94.94%) Security Cleared
2 66 (83.54%) DV Cleared
3 13 (16.46%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.59%) CEH
4 6 (7.59%) CISSP
4 6 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.59%) Degree
5 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (56.96%) NIST
1 45 (56.96%) NIST 800
2 2 (2.53%) RMADS
3 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (7.59%) Kibana
1 6 (7.59%) logstash
2 2 (2.53%) Ansible
2 2 (2.53%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.53%) Puppet
2 2 (2.53%) Terraform
3 1 (1.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 62 (78.48%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.53%) Cisco
2 2 (2.53%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.27%) LogRhythm
3 1 (1.27%) Splunk