Protective Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the South West

Protective Monitoring
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Protective Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 123 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Protective Monitoring 2 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.085% 0.34% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £430 £653 -
25th Percentile £438 £700 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% - -
75th Percentile £513 £806 -
90th Percentile £520 £827 -
England median daily rate £524 £750 £595
% change year-on-year -30.17% +26.05% -16.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Protective Monitoring 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,958 1,816 2,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.50% 87.31% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,113 1,689
10th Percentile £263 £264 £300
25th Percentile £413 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £713
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 120 272
10th Percentile £15.25 £19.41 £20.55
25th Percentile £19.73 £49.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.23% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%

Protective Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Protective Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Protective Monitoring job vacancy trend in the South West

Protective Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Protective Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Protective Monitoring

Protective Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Protective Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Protective Monitoring

Protective Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Protective Monitoring within the South West region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Gloucestershire - 1 £500 - 1
Protective Monitoring
England

Protective Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft