Security Operations Contract Job Trends in Hatfield

Security Operations (SecOps)
Hertfordshire > Hatfield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hatfield requiring Security Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hatfield 5.48% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 - -
75th Percentile £602 - -
90th Percentile £631 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £553 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -14.92% +6.12% +11.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hatfield

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 Hatfield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73 25 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hatfield 100.00% 89.29% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 10 21
10th Percentile £106 £125 £350
25th Percentile £479 £161 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% +2.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £655 £589 £613
Hertfordshire median daily rate £530 £444 £550
% change year-on-year +19.32% -19.32% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 11 13
10th Percentile £14.71 £13.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £16.45 £14.76 £13.16
Median hourly rate £17.23 £15.10 £14.65
Median % change year-on-year +14.11% +3.07% -1.97%
75th Percentile £17.96 £16.00 £17.33
90th Percentile £19.01 £16.69 £17.72
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £43.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.33% -7.69% +8.33%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Hatfield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Operations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hatfield.

Security Operations job vacancy trend in Hatfield

Security Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Hatfield

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

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

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hatfield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Information Assurance
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (75.00%) Open Source
2 3 (75.00%) OSINT
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Detection
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Time Management
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (75.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Computacenter
2 1 (25.00%) Cribl.io
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft