Security Operations Contracts in Hertfordshire

Security Operations (SecOps)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for Security Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 50 70
Rank change year-on-year -10 +20 -11
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 12 24 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.44% 2.96% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 3.41% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 3
10th Percentile £455 - £415
25th Percentile £613 £260 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile - £631 £725
90th Percentile - - £785
East of England median daily rate £650 £600 £525
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

Security Operations 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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 755 703 686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 90.31% 86.68% 87.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 374 407
10th Percentile £225 £240 £190
25th Percentile £315 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £701 £768 £688
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 156 81
10th Percentile £38.12 £21.00 £21.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £53.69 £39.55
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £50.85
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +27.83% +13.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
% change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -13.58%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Hertfordshire

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in Hertfordshire

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in Hertfordshire

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Stevenage - 10 £650 -
Hemel Hempstead - 2 £438 -
Security Operations
East of England

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 9 (75.00%) CMS
General
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Analyst
2 10 (83.33%) SOC Analyst
3 8 (66.67%) Senior
3 8 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 9 (75.00%) Cyberattack
3 8 (66.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (8.33%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (83.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
4 1 (8.33%) ITSM
4 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (8.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Management
4 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum
4 1 (8.33%) SDLC
4 1 (8.33%) Service Management
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Darktrace
2 10 (83.33%) FireEye
3 9 (75.00%) LogRhythm
3 9 (75.00%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Sage
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) Varonis