Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Security Monitoring
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 146 182
Rank change year-on-year -47 +36 +50
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 14 19 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.30% 0.49% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.57% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £378 £504 £294
25th Percentile £381 £532 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +29.41% -22.45%
75th Percentile £563 £572 £531
90th Percentile £611 £576 £634
England median daily rate £538 £564 £589
% change year-on-year -4.66% -4.21% -9.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Security Monitoring 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,095 3,333 4,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.69% 85.59% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,747 1,830 2,805
10th Percentile £213 £275 £275
25th Percentile £360 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £665 £675
England median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 184 193
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.00 £15.80
25th Percentile £19.02 £18.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +14.84% +32.40%
75th Percentile £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.29 £69.93 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.02 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.17% -21.31% +19.85%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Security Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Security Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Monitoring within the North of England region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Yorkshire -19 13 £400 -27.27%
North West -39 1 - - 2
Security Monitoring
England

Security Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (92.86%) Azure
2 12 (85.71%) AWS
3 10 (71.43%) GCP
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (42.86%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) NetBackup Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Veritas Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Backup Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Security Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Security Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior IT Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) SOC Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Business Continuity
2 7 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 7 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 7 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (50.00%) RBAC
2 7 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 6 (42.86%) SIEM
4 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (21.43%) SOAR
5 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
6 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) PowerShell
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 10 (71.43%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) GCIA
1 1 (7.14%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) HIPAA
1 3 (21.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
1 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Google
2 7 (50.00%) CyberArk
2 7 (50.00%) Oracle
2 7 (50.00%) Veritas
2 7 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (21.43%) Splunk
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco
4 2 (14.29%) Citrix
4 2 (14.29%) McAfee