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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 94 88
Rank change year-on-year +24 -6 +21
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Security Operations 12 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.20% 0.34% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 0.42% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 6
10th Percentile £495 £356 £631
25th Percentile £514 £525 £658
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £673
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -10.81% +31.27%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £681
90th Percentile £786 £853 £740
South East median daily rate £525 £545 £621
% change year-on-year -3.67% -12.24% +8.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 857 1,177 1,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.96% 79.90% 87.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 716 647
10th Percentile £300 £370 £263
25th Percentile £450 £455 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £578 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £667 £613
90th Percentile £656 £725 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £518
% change year-on-year -3.57% +0.10% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 123 109
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.06 £51.06 £21.00
Median hourly rate £33.47 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.64% +9.24% +16.67%
75th Percentile £58.39 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £78.37 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £23.50 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.02% +14.70% +92.31%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Security Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in Hampshire over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in Hampshire

Security Operations
DemandTrendContract 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 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basingstoke +20 6 £675 +175.51% 1
Farnborough - 3 £525 - 3
Southampton +3 2 - - 2
Eastleigh - 1 £500 -
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 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
1 4 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) IT Security Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Director
3 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) SIEM Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Incident Response
2 5 (41.67%) Asset Management
2 5 (41.67%) Security Management
3 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (33.33%) SIEM
4 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) ISMS
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) Use Case
6 1 (8.33%) Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) Cyber Intelligence
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) High Availability
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (8.33%) Performance Management
6 1 (8.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) DV Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) CISMP
2 2 (16.67%) GSEC
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CCNA
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CISSP
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) MCSE
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) NIST
1 6 (50.00%) NIST 800
2 3 (25.00%) GDPR
3 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk