Protective Monitoring Contracts in London

Protective Monitoring
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Protective Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Protective Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 386 488
Rank change year-on-year +36 +102 +102
Contract jobs citing Protective Monitoring 3 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.024% 0.028% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.032% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - £419
25th Percentile £613 £625 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +36.36% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £875 £559
90th Percentile - - £576
England median daily rate £625 £645 £560
% change year-on-year -3.10% +15.18% -9.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Protective 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Protective Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Protective Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Protective Monitoring in London

Protective Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Protective Monitoring in London.

Daily rate trend for Protective Monitoring in London

Protective Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Protective Monitoring within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London - 2 £625 - 1
Protective Monitoring
England

Protective Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (66.67%) Amazon Cognito
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk