Security Operations Contracts in South London

Security Operations (SecOps)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 1.14% - 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £635 - -
25th Percentile £650 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £550
75th Percentile £750 - £575
90th Percentile £765 - -
London median daily rate £575 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 153 223 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.43% 95.71% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 154 272
10th Percentile £379 £259 £300
25th Percentile £463 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £649
90th Percentile £787 £630 £750
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £20.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% -53.39% +10.46%
75th Percentile £20.38 £77.19 -
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £55.22
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £38.25
% change year-on-year +22.13% -27.22% +2.00%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in South London

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in South London.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in South London

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 South London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Croydon - 1 £750 -
Wandsworth - 1 £650 -
Security Operations
London

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) CSOC
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Okta
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk