Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the South West

Security Monitoring
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 111 111
Rank change year-on-year -26 0 +45
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 4 6 40
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.14% 0.36% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.40% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 36
10th Percentile £414 £320 £461
25th Percentile £434 £340 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -17.36%
75th Percentile £484 £625 £605
90th Percentile £485 - £675
England median daily rate £500 £538 £545
% change year-on-year -6.98% -1.38% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65.18
25th Percentile - - £67.31
Median hourly rate - - £72.75
75th Percentile - - £76.31
90th Percentile - - £77.33
England median hourly rate £26.44 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - -10.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Security 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 2,323 1,503 2,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 80.19% 90.38% 84.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,251 991 1,762
10th Percentile £305 £230 £263
25th Percentile £410 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £713
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 105 342
10th Percentile £16.62 £20.69 £14.03
25th Percentile £23.50 £55.00 £26.88
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £66.77
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.66 £77.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -9.72%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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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 Security Monitoring within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 March 2026. 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
Somerset -8 2 £478 +6.11% 3
Wiltshire -26 1 £400 -14.89%
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 2
Security Monitoring
England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Icinga