Security Monitoring Contracts in England

Security Monitoring
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Security Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 406 486
Rank change year-on-year +15 +80 +116
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 80 127 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.35% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.40% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 98 105
10th Percentile £448 £419 £440
25th Percentile £450 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £669
90th Percentile £715 £748 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £65.18 £33.43
25th Percentile - £67.31 £43.06
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year - +15.02% -
75th Percentile - £76.31 £85.56
90th Percentile - £77.33 £96.48
UK median hourly rate - £72.75 £63.25
% change year-on-year - +15.02% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,169 31,438 43,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.25% 86.37% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,471 20,622 30,640
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,250 1,536
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.96 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in England

Security Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Monitoring in England

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in England

Security Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Monitoring in England

Security 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 Security Monitoring within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +37 37 £550 +3.29% 55
South East +53 28 £513 +4.59% 20
North of England +16 4 £600 -11.24% 19
South West +7 4 £550 +11.11% 10
East of England +25 2 - - 9
North West +14 2 £525 -22.34% 9
Midlands +5 2 £600 +9.09% 12
West Midlands -6 2 £600 +9.09% 10
North East - 1 £625 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 10
Security Monitoring
UK

Security 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 33 (41.25%) Azure
2 13 (16.25%) AWS
3 12 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (11.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (8.75%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.25%) GCP
7 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon Macie
10 1 (1.25%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (1.25%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 33 (41.25%) Firewall
2 21 (26.25%) Network Security
3 16 (20.00%) VPN
4 7 (8.75%) Internet
4 7 (8.75%) TCP/IP
5 6 (7.50%) BGP
5 6 (7.50%) OSPF
5 6 (7.50%) VLAN
6 4 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (5.00%) WAN
7 3 (3.75%) DNS
7 3 (3.75%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.50%) SSL
8 2 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (2.50%) Wireless
9 1 (1.25%) BIG-IP
9 1 (1.25%) DHCP
9 1 (1.25%) NAS
9 1 (1.25%) SAN
9 1 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.75%) Power BI
2 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (1.25%) GitLab
General
1 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.25%) Finance
5 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.75%) Legal
5 3 (3.75%) Military
6 2 (2.50%) Local Government
6 2 (2.50%) Marketing
6 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.25%) Games
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (21.25%) Analyst
2 12 (15.00%) Architect
2 12 (15.00%) Security Engineer
3 11 (13.75%) Security Architect
3 11 (13.75%) Senior
4 10 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
5 7 (8.75%) IT Manager
5 7 (8.75%) IT Services Manager
5 7 (8.75%) Service Manager
6 6 (7.50%) Security Analyst
6 6 (7.50%) Senior Manager
7 5 (6.25%) Lead
7 5 (6.25%) Senior IT Manager
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Service Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Consultant
8 4 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) IT Architect
8 4 (5.00%) IT Security Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.25%) OAuth
2 1 (1.25%) SAML
2 1 (1.25%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 13 (16.25%) Security Operations Centre
3 7 (8.75%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (8.75%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (7.50%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.75%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.25%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.25%) Insider Threat
8 1 (1.25%) IoT
8 1 (1.25%) PKI
8 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
1 4 (5.00%) Windows
2 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (53.75%) SIEM
2 39 (48.75%) Incident Response
3 37 (46.25%) Cybersecurity
4 32 (40.00%) Security Operations
5 23 (28.75%) Threat Detection
5 23 (28.75%) Vulnerability Management
6 18 (22.50%) Threat Intelligence
7 17 (21.25%) Cloud Security
8 15 (18.75%) Analytics
8 15 (18.75%) Penetration Testing
9 14 (17.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (15.00%) Incident Management
11 11 (13.75%) Risk Management
12 10 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (11.25%) Artificial Intelligence
13 9 (11.25%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 9 (11.25%) Security Architecture
13 9 (11.25%) Threat Analysis
13 9 (11.25%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.00%) Python
2 9 (11.25%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.25%) Bash
5 1 (1.25%) Bicep
5 1 (1.25%) C++
5 1 (1.25%) Java
5 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.25%) Rust
5 1 (1.25%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.50%) CISSP
4 9 (11.25%) CompTIA Security+
5 7 (8.75%) Degree
6 6 (7.50%) CCNP
6 6 (7.50%) CCSA
6 6 (7.50%) CCSE
6 6 (7.50%) Check Point Certification
6 6 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (6.25%) DV Cleared
8 4 (5.00%) GCIA
8 4 (5.00%) GCIH
9 3 (3.75%) CISM
9 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.75%) GCFA
9 3 (3.75%) PMP
10 2 (2.50%) CEH
10 2 (2.50%) GIAC
11 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (16.25%) NIST
3 10 (12.50%) GDPR
4 5 (6.25%) HIPAA
4 5 (6.25%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.75%) NCSC
6 2 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.25%) GRC
7 1 (1.25%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (7.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.25%) Docker
3 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (10.00%) Ansible
3 4 (5.00%) SCCM
4 3 (3.75%) QRadar
4 3 (3.75%) Terraform
5 2 (2.50%) CASB
5 2 (2.50%) CSIRT
5 2 (2.50%) SCOrch
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (1.25%) Grafana
6 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.25%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.25%) OPNET
6 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.25%) Puppet
6 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 10 (12.50%) Splunk
3 8 (10.00%) Cisco
4 7 (8.75%) CheckPoint
5 4 (5.00%) Rapid7
6 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.50%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.50%) Qualys
8 1 (1.25%) Alibaba
8 1 (1.25%) BMC
8 1 (1.25%) Darktrace
8 1 (1.25%) F5
8 1 (1.25%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.25%) Meraki
8 1 (1.25%) Netskope
8 1 (1.25%) SonicWALL
8 1 (1.25%) Zscaler