Situational Awareness Contracts in the South East

Situational Awareness
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Situational Awareness skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Situational Awareness over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 - 206
Rank change year-on-year - - +45
Contract jobs citing Situational Awareness 8 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.27% - 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £584 - -
25th Percentile £627 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.22%
75th Percentile £655 - -
90th Percentile £666 - -
England median daily rate £402 £540 £563
% change year-on-year -25.56% -4.00% +4.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Situational Awareness 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,747 4,698 5,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.51% 84.71% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 2,749 3,576
10th Percentile £254 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 435 220
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.20
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.20 £22.21
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +127.27%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £64.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.33 £36.77
% change year-on-year -19.99% -1.19% +51.01%

Situational Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Situational Awareness as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Situational Awareness in the South East

Situational Awareness
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Situational Awareness in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Situational Awareness in the South East

Situational Awareness
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Situational Awareness within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Berkshire - 4 £650 -
Thames Valley - 4 £650 - 1
Hampshire - 2 - - 3
Surrey - 2 £656 - 2
Situational Awareness
England

Situational Awareness
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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%) Apache Solr
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (25.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (37.50%) Military
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Training Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Ajax
1 2 (25.00%) JAXB
1 2 (25.00%) JAX-RS
1 2 (25.00%) JAX-WS
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) SOAP
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
1 2 (25.00%) XML
1 2 (25.00%) XSD
1 2 (25.00%) XSL
1 2 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) BPEL
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Event Correlation
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) OSINT
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) SIEM
2 2 (25.00%) SOA
2 2 (25.00%) Threat Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
1 2 (25.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) ArcSight
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle