Security Operations Contracts in the North West

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 103 141
Rank change year-on-year -26 +38 -18
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 8 50 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.29% 1.56% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 1.72% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 32 37
10th Percentile £513 £400 £483
25th Percentile £563 £450 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £680
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.76% +60.00%
75th Percentile £750 £716 £763
90th Percentile £979 £1,315 -
England median daily rate £600 £622 £600
% change year-on-year -3.54% +3.67% +17.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in the North West

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in the North West

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in the North West

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Manchester +3 4 £625 -10.71% 13
Lancashire +4 2 £963 -3.75% 2
Cheshire -8 2 £596 -4.64% 1
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
1 2 (25.00%) SOC Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) Insider Threat
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) SIEM
2 3 (37.50%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Management
4 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (12.50%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) GIAC
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (12.50%) Carbon Black
3 1 (12.50%) Intel
3 1 (12.50%) Proofpoint
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Symantec
3 1 (12.50%) Zscaler