Security Operations Contract Job Trends in London

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Security Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 240 232
Rank change year-on-year +35 -8 +132
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 186 147 179
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.30% 0.96% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.07% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 93 145
10th Percentile £407 £413 £458
25th Percentile £423 £500 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £760
90th Percentile £750 £805 £813
England median daily rate £525 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.44% +0.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £39.10 - -
25th Percentile £43.38 £34.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 £35.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.75% -52.67% +100.00%
75th Percentile £65.56 £36.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £69.73 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +24.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,051 13,742 17,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 89.96% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,604 8,839 12,265
10th Percentile £341 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £800 £792
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 165 233
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £36.80 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.84% +8.24% -13.38%
75th Percentile £47.94 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Operations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Security Operations job vacancy trend in London

Security Operations
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in London

Security Operations
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Operations.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Operations in London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 December 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 +7 26 £575 - 11
West London -12 3 £423 -11.05% 2
North London - 1 £650 -
South London - 1 £538 -
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 64 (34.41%) Azure
2 38 (20.43%) AWS
3 35 (18.82%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (11.83%) Entra ID
5 16 (8.60%) GCP
6 15 (8.06%) Azure Sentinel
7 12 (6.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.69%) Cloudflare
8 5 (2.69%) Mimecast
8 5 (2.69%) OpenDNS
9 4 (2.15%) GitHub
9 4 (2.15%) SaaS
10 3 (1.61%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (1.61%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (1.61%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.61%) Cloud Functions
10 3 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (19.35%) Firewall
2 23 (12.37%) Network Security
3 16 (8.60%) TCP/IP
4 14 (7.53%) DNS
5 12 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (4.84%) VPN
7 8 (4.30%) WAN
8 7 (3.76%) DHCP
9 3 (1.61%) HTTP
9 3 (1.61%) SMTP
9 3 (1.61%) SSL
10 2 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (1.08%) SNMP
10 2 (1.08%) SSH
10 2 (1.08%) Wireless
11 1 (0.54%) 4G
11 1 (0.54%) LAN
11 1 (0.54%) Modbus
11 1 (0.54%) tcpdump
11 1 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.23%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.15%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.54%) DB2
5 1 (0.54%) Looker
5 1 (0.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.15%) JIRA
2 2 (1.08%) Git
2 2 (1.08%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.54%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.54%) git-flow
3 1 (0.54%) GitLab
3 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.54%) Snyk
General
1 38 (20.43%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.74%) Finance
3 26 (13.98%) Public Sector
4 23 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.30%) Legal
6 6 (3.23%) Banking
6 6 (3.23%) Spanish Language
7 5 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.69%) Local Government
8 3 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.08%) Law
9 2 (1.08%) Military
9 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.54%) Electronics
10 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Marketing
10 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (28.49%) Security Engineer
2 37 (19.89%) Analyst
3 24 (12.90%) Security Analyst
4 16 (8.60%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 15 (8.06%) Architect
6 13 (6.99%) Senior
7 11 (5.91%) Consultant
7 11 (5.91%) SOC Analyst
8 10 (5.38%) Security Architect
9 9 (4.84%) Operations Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 8 (4.30%) Lead
10 8 (4.30%) Operations Analyst
10 8 (4.30%) SOC Engineer
11 7 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.76%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
11 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Engineer
11 7 (3.76%) Operations Manager
11 7 (3.76%) SOC Manager
12 6 (3.23%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.76%) REST
2 6 (3.23%) OAuth
2 6 (3.23%) OpenID
2 6 (3.23%) SAML
3 3 (1.61%) Kafka
3 3 (1.61%) SOAP
4 2 (1.08%) Express.js
4 2 (1.08%) gRPC
4 2 (1.08%) JSON
4 2 (1.08%) LDAP
4 2 (1.08%) Next.js
4 2 (1.08%) Node.js
4 2 (1.08%) React
4 2 (1.08%) Regular Expression
4 2 (1.08%) Web Services
4 2 (1.08%) XML
5 1 (0.54%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.54%) Spring
5 1 (0.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (24.19%) Security Operations Centre
2 21 (11.29%) Security Posture
3 17 (9.14%) Cyber Threat
3 17 (9.14%) Onboarding
4 12 (6.45%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.76%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.76%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.23%) BYOD
6 6 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (3.23%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.69%) CSOC
7 5 (2.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.61%) CMDB
8 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.08%) PKI
9 2 (1.08%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.74%) Windows
2 25 (13.44%) Linux
3 10 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.23%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.69%) Unix
6 1 (0.54%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (48.92%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (40.86%) SIEM
3 73 (39.25%) Incident Response
4 36 (19.35%) Cloud Security
5 31 (16.67%) Threat Detection
6 30 (16.13%) Information Security
7 28 (15.05%) SOAR
8 24 (12.90%) Vulnerability Management
9 23 (12.37%) Analytics
10 21 (11.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 21 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (10.75%) Agile
11 20 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (10.22%) Security Monitoring
13 18 (9.68%) DevOps
13 18 (9.68%) Incident Management
14 16 (8.60%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (8.60%) Security Architecture
15 15 (8.06%) Threat Intelligence
16 14 (7.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 39 (20.97%) PowerShell
2 31 (16.67%) Python
3 19 (10.22%) Kusto Query Language
4 15 (8.06%) Bash
5 4 (2.15%) Bicep
5 4 (2.15%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.08%) Java
6 2 (1.08%) SQL
6 2 (1.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.54%) C++
7 1 (0.54%) Go
7 1 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 48 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.82%) SC Cleared
3 31 (16.67%) CISSP
4 15 (8.06%) CompTIA Security+
5 14 (7.53%) CEH
5 14 (7.53%) Degree
6 13 (6.99%) CISM
7 10 (5.38%) Azure Certification
7 10 (5.38%) DV Cleared
8 8 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (3.76%) OSCP
10 6 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (3.23%) CCSP
10 6 (3.23%) GCIH
11 5 (2.69%) CompTIA CySA+
11 5 (2.69%) GIAC
12 4 (2.15%) CCNA
12 4 (2.15%) GPEN
13 3 (1.61%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (12.90%) NIST
3 18 (9.68%) GDPR
4 10 (5.38%) NCSC
5 8 (4.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (3.76%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.69%) GRC
8 4 (2.15%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
10 2 (1.08%) FIPS 140-2
10 2 (1.08%) SLA
11 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.54%) PMO
11 1 (0.54%) QA
11 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (13.44%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.53%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (4.30%) Docker
4 5 (2.69%) Snort
4 5 (2.69%) Squid
5 3 (1.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (6.99%) SCCM
2 10 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.38%) Nessus
3 9 (4.84%) CASB
4 8 (4.30%) QRadar
5 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.76%) SCOrch
6 6 (3.23%) WSUS
7 5 (2.69%) Nexpose
7 5 (2.69%) Suricata
8 4 (2.15%) Terraform
9 3 (1.61%) CSIRT
10 2 (1.08%) Ansible
10 2 (1.08%) Fluentd
10 2 (1.08%) Kibana
10 2 (1.08%) logstash
11 1 (0.54%) Argo
11 1 (0.54%) Grafana
11 1 (0.54%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (36.56%) Microsoft
2 34 (18.28%) Splunk
3 32 (17.20%) CrowdStrike
4 27 (14.52%) ServiceNow
5 19 (10.22%) Google
5 19 (10.22%) Qualys
6 13 (6.99%) Tenable
7 12 (6.45%) Palo Alto
8 10 (5.38%) Cisco
9 9 (4.84%) Zscaler
10 8 (4.30%) Forcepoint
11 7 (3.76%) Carbon Black
11 7 (3.76%) Darktrace
11 7 (3.76%) FireEye
11 7 (3.76%) Oracle
11 7 (3.76%) Sophos
12 5 (2.69%) Blue Coat
12 5 (2.69%) CyberArk
12 5 (2.69%) Fortinet
13 4 (2.15%) VMware