Security Monitoring Contracts in London

Security Monitoring
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Security Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Monitoring over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 437 497
Rank change year-on-year +91 +60 -74
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 48 55 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.27% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.23% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 45 61
10th Percentile £409 £500 £450
25th Percentile £453 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £744 £688 £650
90th Percentile £888 £778 £794
England median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £97.50 -
England median hourly rate £72.75 £63.25 -
% change year-on-year +15.02% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Security Monitoring 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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,657 23,832 35,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 90.97% 92.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,214 17,166 25,985
10th Percentile £341 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 270 416
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.45 £17.40
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.25 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.80% +4.08% +13.08%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £80.23 £69.06
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in London

Security Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Monitoring in London

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in London

Security Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Monitoring in London

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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 Security Monitoring within the London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Central London +50 12 £700 -6.35% 7
South London - 1 - -
West London - 1 - -
Security Monitoring
England

Security 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.17%) IIS
1 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.08%) IBM Notes
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.17%) GCP
2 11 (22.92%) Google Compute Engine
2 11 (22.92%) Vertex AI
3 7 (14.58%) Azure
4 6 (12.50%) AWS
5 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (4.17%) SaaS
7 1 (2.08%) AWS IoT
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.08%) IaaS
7 1 (2.08%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.08%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.08%) PaaS
7 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.75%) Firewall
2 6 (12.50%) Network Security
3 4 (8.33%) FTP
3 4 (8.33%) HTTP
3 4 (8.33%) ICMP
3 4 (8.33%) POP3
3 4 (8.33%) SMTP
3 4 (8.33%) SSH
3 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.25%) Internet
5 1 (2.08%) VPN
5 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 4 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) GitLab
2 1 (2.08%) Subversion
General
1 17 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Banking
3 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) Architect
2 7 (14.58%) Analyst
2 7 (14.58%) GCP Architect
3 6 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 6 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Senior
4 5 (10.42%) SOC Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) ArcSight Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) SIEM Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Information Specialist
7 2 (4.17%) Lead
7 2 (4.17%) Security Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Security Specialist
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.08%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 9 (18.75%) Security Posture
3 4 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.08%) CSOC
6 1 (2.08%) IoT
6 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Unix
2 5 (10.42%) Windows
3 4 (8.33%) Linux
4 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
1 14 (29.17%) Security Operations
2 13 (27.08%) Vulnerability Management
3 12 (25.00%) Analytics
3 12 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 12 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 12 (25.00%) SIEM
4 11 (22.92%) Data Science
4 11 (22.92%) Generative AI
4 11 (22.92%) Identity Access Management
5 10 (20.83%) Incident Response
5 10 (20.83%) Information Security
5 10 (20.83%) Machine Learning
6 9 (18.75%) Cloud Security
6 9 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
7 8 (16.67%) DevSecOps
8 7 (14.58%) Application Security
8 7 (14.58%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) Python
2 13 (27.08%) Bash
3 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.17%) SQL
4 1 (2.08%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (25.00%) Degree
2 10 (20.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
4 6 (12.50%) CISSP
4 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 5 (10.42%) GIAC
6 4 (8.33%) CISM
7 2 (4.17%) GCIA
7 2 (4.17%) GCIH
8 1 (2.08%) BC Cleared
8 1 (2.08%) CEH
8 1 (2.08%) CISA
8 1 (2.08%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) NIST
2 3 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (4.17%) QA
4 1 (2.08%) COBIT
4 1 (2.08%) GLBA
4 1 (2.08%) ISAE 3402
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) Terraform
2 6 (12.50%) QRadar
3 4 (8.33%) Kibana
3 4 (8.33%) logstash
4 3 (6.25%) Nessus
5 2 (4.17%) CSIRT
5 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.08%) CASB
6 1 (2.08%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) Splunk
3 4 (8.33%) ArcSight
4 3 (6.25%) Oracle
4 3 (6.25%) Qualys
5 2 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.08%) Axway
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco
6 1 (2.08%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.08%) Google
6 1 (2.08%) Lotus
6 1 (2.08%) McAfee
6 1 (2.08%) Netskope
6 1 (2.08%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.08%) Trend Micro