Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the Home Counties

Security Monitoring
South East > Home Counties

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Home Counties requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties 8.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
South East median daily rate £600 £500 £565
% change year-on-year +19.90% -11.50% -3.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 91.67% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £530 £569 -
25th Percentile £575 £597 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £649 £644 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% - -
75th Percentile £675 £897 -
90th Percentile £685 £1,049 -
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties.

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in the Home Counties

Security Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow