Security Operations Contract Job Trends in Lincoln

Security Operations (SecOps)
Lincolnshire > Lincoln

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lincoln requiring Security Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lincoln 3.57% - 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% - 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £425
Lincolnshire median daily rate £650 - £360

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lincoln

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 Lincoln.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24 13 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincoln 85.71% 92.86% 62.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 10
10th Percentile £419 £192 £208
25th Percentile £475 £250 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £300 £425
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -29.41% +34.92%
75th Percentile £563 £385 £691
90th Percentile £605 £649 £850
Lincolnshire median daily rate £475 £400 £438
% change year-on-year +18.75% -8.57% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 0
10th Percentile £18.87 - -
25th Percentile £20.51 £40.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £41.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.76% - -
75th Percentile £25.15 £42.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
Lincolnshire median hourly rate £24.29 £29.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year -16.25% +41.39% +2.55%

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincoln 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow