Security Operations Contracts in London

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Security Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 277 373
Rank change year-on-year +14 +96 -18
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 131 240 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.73% 0.88% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.97% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 171 159
10th Percentile £419 £440 £425
25th Percentile £500 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £725 £739 £722
90th Percentile £801 £835 £800
England median daily rate £600 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% +18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £32.85 £22.76
25th Percentile - £33.08 £25.01
Median hourly rate - £34.10 £30.01
Median % change year-on-year - +13.60% -49.98%
75th Percentile - £35.74 £35.01
90th Percentile - £36.34 £37.25
England median hourly rate £11.25 £76.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -85.29% +104.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Security Operations 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 15,803 24,767 35,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.42% 91.14% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,321 17,758 26,094
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
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 £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 288 429
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.23
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.86 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +9.86% +10.18%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.55 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.10 £78.15 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in London

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in London

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in London

Security Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Operations in London

Security Operations
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 Operations within the London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +31 17 £650 +6.12% 7
West London +17 4 £611 -28.09% 5
East London - 1 £625 - 2
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
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 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.37%) Azure
2 13 (9.92%) AWS
2 13 (9.92%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (5.34%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.05%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.05%) IaaS
4 4 (3.05%) SaaS
5 3 (2.29%) PaaS
6 2 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.53%) Azure Stack
6 2 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.53%) GCP
6 2 (1.53%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.76%) Akamai
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (0.76%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.16%) Firewall
2 11 (8.40%) Network Security
3 5 (3.82%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.05%) DNS
4 4 (3.05%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (2.29%) Internet
6 2 (1.53%) DHCP
6 2 (1.53%) HTTP
6 2 (1.53%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.53%) VoIP
6 2 (1.53%) VPN
7 1 (0.76%) BGP
7 1 (0.76%) FTP
7 1 (0.76%) IPsec
7 1 (0.76%) LAN
7 1 (0.76%) OSPF
7 1 (0.76%) SMTP
7 1 (0.76%) WAN
7 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.34%) Power BI
2 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.53%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Burp Suite
1 3 (2.29%) Git
1 3 (2.29%) Jenkins
1 3 (2.29%) Metasploit
General
1 37 (28.24%) Finance
2 20 (15.27%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.50%) Banking
4 11 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.34%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.82%) Law
6 5 (3.82%) Legal
7 4 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Back Office
9 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (22.90%) Analyst
2 22 (16.79%) Architect
3 16 (12.21%) Security Manager
4 15 (11.45%) Security Engineer
5 14 (10.69%) Security Analyst
6 13 (9.92%) SOC Analyst
7 12 (9.16%) Security Architect
8 11 (8.40%) Senior
9 10 (7.63%) Operational Security Manager
9 10 (7.63%) Security Operations Manager
10 8 (6.11%) Operations Manager
10 8 (6.11%) SOC Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) SOC Architect
12 6 (4.58%) Lead
13 5 (3.82%) Consultant
13 5 (3.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 5 (3.82%) Information Manager
13 5 (3.82%) Information Security Manager
13 5 (3.82%) IT Analyst
13 5 (3.82%) IT Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.53%) PySpark
1 2 (1.53%) YAML
2 1 (0.76%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.76%) CSS
2 1 (0.76%) JDBC
2 1 (0.76%) LDAP
2 1 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.85%) Security Posture
2 25 (19.08%) Security Operations Centre
3 23 (17.56%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (6.11%) Cyberattack
5 5 (3.82%) Cloud Security Posture
5 5 (3.82%) Operational Technology
6 4 (3.05%) CMDB
6 4 (3.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (2.29%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.53%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.53%) CSOC
8 2 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.03%) Windows
2 10 (7.63%) Linux
3 4 (3.05%) Unix
4 3 (2.29%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (47.33%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (30.53%) Incident Response
3 38 (29.01%) Information Security
4 33 (25.19%) SIEM
5 31 (23.66%) Vulnerability Management
6 19 (14.50%) Penetration Testing
7 18 (13.74%) Threat Detection
8 16 (12.21%) Cloud Security
8 16 (12.21%) Threat Intelligence
9 15 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (10.69%) Risk Management
11 13 (9.92%) Security Monitoring
12 12 (9.16%) CI/CD
12 12 (9.16%) Security Architecture
12 12 (9.16%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
12 12 (9.16%) Use Case
13 11 (8.40%) Application Security
13 11 (8.40%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 11 (8.40%) Threat Modelling
14 9 (6.87%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.03%) PowerShell
2 13 (9.92%) Python
3 6 (4.58%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.29%) Bash
5 2 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.53%) Perl
5 2 (1.53%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (1.53%) SQL
6 1 (0.76%) C
6 1 (0.76%) C++
6 1 (0.76%) Java
6 1 (0.76%) Ruby
6 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (17.56%) CISSP
2 16 (12.21%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.40%) CISM
3 11 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.87%) GIAC
5 8 (6.11%) Degree
6 5 (3.82%) CEH
6 5 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (3.05%) GCIA
7 4 (3.05%) GCIH
8 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.29%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.29%) OSCP
9 2 (1.53%) CCSP
9 2 (1.53%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.76%) CCNA
10 1 (0.76%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.69%) NIST
2 13 (9.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (6.87%) GDPR
4 7 (5.34%) GRC
5 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.53%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.53%) SLA
6 1 (0.76%) NCSC
6 1 (0.76%) NIST 800
System Software
1 8 (6.11%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.11%) CSIRT
2 7 (5.34%) Terraform
3 6 (4.58%) Nessus
4 5 (3.82%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.29%) QRadar
6 2 (1.53%) CASB
7 1 (0.76%) Ansible
7 1 (0.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.76%) Grafana
7 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.76%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.76%) SCCM
7 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (24.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.11%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (5.34%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.34%) Splunk
4 6 (4.58%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.58%) Qualys
5 3 (2.29%) AlienVault
5 3 (2.29%) ArcSight
5 3 (2.29%) Cisco
5 3 (2.29%) ForeScout
5 3 (2.29%) Oracle
5 3 (2.29%) Rapid7
6 2 (1.53%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (1.53%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.53%) Databricks
6 2 (1.53%) Intel
6 2 (1.53%) Sophos
6 2 (1.53%) Sun
6 2 (1.53%) Varonis
6 2 (1.53%) Veracode