Security Operations Contracts in Merseyside

Security Operations (SecOps)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - 39
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 1 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.60% - 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% - 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £400
75th Percentile - - £405
90th Percentile - - £496
North West median daily rate £558 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -12.51% +6.25% -11.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 179 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.17% 78.51% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 90 229
10th Percentile £143 £145 £313
25th Percentile £203 £242 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £550
90th Percentile £649 £603 £689
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 8
10th Percentile £13.28 - £16.23
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £20.31 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +12.81% +48.42%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.32 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £25.63
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Merseyside

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in Merseyside

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 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
Liverpool - 1 £400 - 1
Security Operations
North West

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Server Hardening
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft