Security Operations Specialist Contract Job Trends in London

Security Operations Specialist
England > London

The median Security Operations Specialist daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 389 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Operations Specialist 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.007% 0.012% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.013% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £631 -
25th Percentile £575 £641 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £625 £703 -
90th Percentile - £709 -
England median daily rate £600 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +17.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,401 15,052 20,305
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 93.95% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,287 9,883 14,807
10th Percentile £330 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £668 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £512 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -2.52% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 174 219
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.33 £18.13
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.89 £22.27
Median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% -6.67% +19.05%
75th Percentile £49.63 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.11 £75.88 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -44.11% -1.92% +73.48%

Security Operations Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Security Operations Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Specialist in London

Security Operations Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Operations Specialist job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Operations Specialist job vacancies in London

Security Operations Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 30 September 2025, Security Operations Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Security Operations Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Carbon Black
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
1 1 (100.00%) Hyperautomation
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language

Security Operations Specialist Skill Set
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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Hyperautomation
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Carbon Black
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk