Security Operations Contract Job Trends in North London

Security Operations (SecOps)
London > North London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North London requiring Security Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in North London 3.45% 14.29% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 15.79% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% - -
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North 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 North London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28 19 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North London 96.55% 90.48% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 19
10th Percentile £370 £436 £248
25th Percentile £400 - £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +46.67% -18.92%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £470
90th Percentile £596 - £591
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
London median hourly rate £34.62 £31.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.02% -9.29% -12.50%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in North London

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

Security Operations job vacancy trend in North London

Security Operations
Daily Rate Trend in North London

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

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

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in North 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 North London region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
Enfield - 1 £400 -
Security Operations
London

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft