Security Operations Contracts in London

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 268 271
Rank change year-on-year +65 +3 +78
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 147 126 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.20% 0.72% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.82% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 98 168
10th Percentile £388 £413 £439
25th Percentile £500 £469 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £713 £725 £738
90th Percentile £780 £800 £841
England median daily rate £575 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.04% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £32.69
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.97 £11.25 £84.50
% change year-on-year +353.07% -86.69% +181.55%

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 11,308 15,427 23,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 88.39% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,584 11,065 16,744
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £449 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 315 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.05
25th Percentile £23.99 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -29.34% +11.62%
75th Percentile £49.88 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.90 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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 +5 13 £625 -3.85% 7
West London +10 3 £450 -26.38% 1
South London +3 3 £700 +47.37% 1
North London - 2 £650 -
East London - 1 £585 - 6
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 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.68%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (33.33%) Azure
2 27 (18.37%) AWS
3 17 (11.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 15 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (10.20%) Amazon S3
4 15 (10.20%) SaaS
5 14 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
6 11 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.76%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.08%) GCP
8 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (3.40%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.72%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.04%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.04%) Serverless
12 2 (1.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (1.36%) AWS KMS
12 2 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (26.53%) Firewall
2 23 (15.65%) Network Security
3 16 (10.88%) TCP/IP
4 15 (10.20%) DNS
5 10 (6.80%) WAN
6 9 (6.12%) VPN
7 8 (5.44%) DHCP
7 8 (5.44%) HTTP
8 7 (4.76%) SMTP
8 7 (4.76%) Wireless
9 6 (4.08%) LAN
10 5 (3.40%) 4G
10 5 (3.40%) SSL
11 4 (2.72%) FTP
11 4 (2.72%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (2.04%) Internet
13 2 (1.36%) Cisco ASA
13 2 (1.36%) SD-WAN
13 2 (1.36%) VLAN
13 2 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.04%) JIRA
2 1 (0.68%) Git
General
1 33 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.05%) Finance
3 20 (13.61%) Public Sector
4 19 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.84%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (6.80%) Banking
7 6 (4.08%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.08%) Legal
8 4 (2.72%) Military
9 3 (2.04%) Local Government
10 2 (1.36%) French Language
10 2 (1.36%) Law
10 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Retail
11 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (19.05%) Architect
2 27 (18.37%) Analyst
3 22 (14.97%) Security Engineer
4 20 (13.61%) Senior
5 18 (12.24%) Security Analyst
5 18 (12.24%) Security Architect
6 12 (8.16%) SOC Analyst
6 12 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (7.48%) Operations Engineer
7 11 (7.48%) Security Manager
8 10 (6.80%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 10 (6.80%) Lead
9 8 (5.44%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Consultant
9 8 (5.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.76%) ServiceNow Architect
11 6 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (3.40%) Head of Security
12 5 (3.40%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.76%) HTML
2 6 (4.08%) CSS
3 4 (2.72%) .NET
3 4 (2.72%) Web Services
4 3 (2.04%) JSON
5 2 (1.36%) Node.js
5 2 (1.36%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.36%) SOAP
5 2 (1.36%) XML
5 2 (1.36%) YAML
6 1 (0.68%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.68%) Ajax
6 1 (0.68%) REST
6 1 (0.68%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 40 (27.21%) Security Operations Centre
2 25 (17.01%) Security Posture
3 23 (15.65%) Onboarding
4 15 (10.20%) CSOC
5 12 (8.16%) Management Information System
6 10 (6.80%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.04%) BYOD
9 3 (2.04%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.36%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (1.36%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.36%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.36%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.20%) Windows
2 8 (5.44%) Linux
3 3 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (47.62%) Cybersecurity
2 69 (46.94%) SIEM
3 59 (40.14%) Incident Response
4 41 (27.89%) SOAR
5 35 (23.81%) Vulnerability Management
6 29 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (19.05%) Cloud Security
8 26 (17.69%) Information Security
9 25 (17.01%) Threat Detection
10 22 (14.97%) Threat Intelligence
11 21 (14.29%) Agile
11 21 (14.29%) Risk Management
12 18 (12.24%) Use Case
13 17 (11.56%) Incident Management
13 17 (11.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 17 (11.56%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
14 16 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (10.20%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 14 (9.52%) DevOps
17 13 (8.84%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 18 (12.24%) Python
3 10 (6.80%) JavaScript
4 7 (4.76%) Bash
5 6 (4.08%) Java
5 6 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (2.72%) C#
7 2 (1.36%) Bicep
7 2 (1.36%) SQL
8 1 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 38 (25.85%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 24 (16.33%) CISSP
4 15 (10.20%) Degree
5 13 (8.84%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (8.84%) GCIH
6 11 (7.48%) CISM
6 11 (7.48%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (6.12%) CCSP
8 8 (5.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (5.44%) CEH
8 8 (5.44%) GIAC
9 6 (4.08%) Azure Certification
9 6 (4.08%) CCNA
10 5 (3.40%) GCIA
11 4 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.72%) OSCP
11 4 (2.72%) SSCP
12 3 (2.04%) CompTIA CySA+
12 3 (2.04%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (17.69%) NIST
2 24 (16.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (7.48%) GDPR
4 10 (6.80%) GRC
5 8 (5.44%) SLA
6 5 (3.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.72%) HIPAA
8 3 (2.04%) NIST 800
9 2 (1.36%) NCSC
9 2 (1.36%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.36%) QA
10 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (8.16%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (5.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.68%) IAG
3 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (3.40%) FortiGate
1 5 (3.40%) SCCM
2 4 (2.72%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.72%) QRadar
3 3 (2.04%) CASB
3 3 (2.04%) Terraform
4 2 (1.36%) CSIRT
4 2 (1.36%) Grafana
4 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.36%) SCOrch
4 2 (1.36%) WSUS
5 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (39.46%) Microsoft
2 31 (21.09%) Splunk
3 22 (14.97%) ServiceNow
4 13 (8.84%) Google
5 12 (8.16%) Palo Alto
6 6 (4.08%) Cisco
7 5 (3.40%) Qualys
8 4 (2.72%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (2.72%) VMware
9 3 (2.04%) Ariba
9 3 (2.04%) CheckPoint
9 3 (2.04%) Oracle
9 3 (2.04%) SAP
10 2 (1.36%) F5
10 2 (1.36%) Meraki
10 2 (1.36%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.36%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.36%) Sophos
11 1 (0.68%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.68%) LogRhythm