Security Operations Contract Job Trends in Preston

Security Operations (SecOps)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Security Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 1.09% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.46 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 80 33 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 86.96% 86.84% 98.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 10 24
10th Percentile £250 £200 £238
25th Percentile £405 £350 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% +14.86%
75th Percentile £576 £582 £500
90th Percentile £680 £598 £535
Lancashire median daily rate £500 £497 £623
% change year-on-year +0.70% -20.24% +18.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 39
10th Percentile £29.21 £24.43 £20.52
25th Percentile - £25.17 £20.97
Median hourly rate £41.94 £34.26 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.42% -25.81% +38.26%
75th Percentile £57.61 £55.78 £50.88
90th Percentile £72.62 £67.70 £74.37
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £41.66 £46.18
% change year-on-year +9.11% -9.78% +22.19%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Security Operations job vacancy trend in Preston

Security Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Lean Six Sigma
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Six Sigma
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST