Security Operations Contracts in Hampshire

Security Operations (SecOps)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 59 93 89
Rank change year-on-year +34 -4 +16
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 10 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.34% 0.12% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 0.15% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 8
10th Percentile £496 £528 £567
25th Percentile £514 £531 £596
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £638
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -9.80% +34.21%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £673
90th Percentile £696 £643 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £517 £619
% change year-on-year +1.65% -16.56% +20.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 671 1,348 1,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.95% 83.73% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 715 797
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 162 104
10th Percentile £20.10 £13.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £29.38 £25.52 £22.85
Median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%
75th Percentile £71.88 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Hampshire

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in Hampshire

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in Hampshire

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire 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
Basingstoke - 4 £625 - 7
Farnborough - 2 £531 -
Portsmouth +17 1 £575 - 8
Winchester - 1 £625 - 1
Eastleigh - 1 £500 - 1
Security Operations
South East

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Electronics
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (20.00%) Marketing
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) Security Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Operations Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Operations Director
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) CSOC
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) SIEM
2 5 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (30.00%) Programme Management
4 3 (30.00%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (30.00%) Use Case
5 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Change Management
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (20.00%) ITIL
5 2 (20.00%) OSINT
5 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (10.00%) Data Privacy
6 1 (10.00%) DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
1 2 (20.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) AlienVault
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft