Security Operations Contracts in the North of England

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Security Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 181 193
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 -21
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 14 37 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.63% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.70% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 34 40
10th Percentile £470 £400 £481
25th Percentile £552 £466 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £671
Median % change year-on-year - -6.86% +49.11%
75th Percentile £900 £763 £763
90th Percentile £994 £1,253 -
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +17.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Security Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,077 5,319 6,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.92% 90.94% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,519 3,696 4,718
10th Percentile £285 £300 £230
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £557
90th Percentile £675 £688 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 216 268
10th Percentile £11.00 £10.63 £10.65
25th Percentile £12.40 £14.73 £13.09
Median hourly rate £17.50 £27.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +48.65% -
75th Percentile £44.07 £45.05 £32.97
90th Percentile £52.69 £65.00 £51.99
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in the North of England

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in the North of England

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in the North of England

Security Operations
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 Operations within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
North West +3 8 £625 +4.17% 20
Yorkshire +15 6 £784 +43.15% 11
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
1 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow Developer
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) SOC Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Security Advisor
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
1 3 (21.43%) CSS
1 3 (21.43%) HTML
1 3 (21.43%) LDAP
2 2 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) CMDB
2 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 3 (21.43%) Operational Technology
2 3 (21.43%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps
1 6 (42.86%) Information Security
2 5 (35.71%) Change Management
2 5 (35.71%) Compliance Management
2 5 (35.71%) Incident Management
2 5 (35.71%) Knowledge Management
2 5 (35.71%) Problem Management
2 5 (35.71%) Risk Management
3 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Service Catalogue
3 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) Kanban
4 3 (21.43%) Mathematics
4 3 (21.43%) SIEM
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Bicep
4 1 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CISM
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (7.14%) GIAC
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) NIST
2 4 (28.57%) QA
3 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
4 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
5 1 (7.14%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Carbon Black
3 1 (7.14%) Intel