Security Operations Contract Job Trends in Southend-on-Sea

Security Operations (SecOps)
Essex > Southend-on-Sea

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southend-on-Sea requiring Security Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southend-on-Sea 7.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median daily rate £650 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southend-on-Sea

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 Southend-on-Sea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4 3 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southend-on-Sea 28.57% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £243 - £131
25th Percentile £381 - £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £200 £163
Median % change year-on-year +212.50% +22.85% -56.59%
75th Percentile £656 - £238
90th Percentile £668 - £335
Essex median daily rate £450 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - £11.53
25th Percentile £13.03 - £13.20
Median hourly rate £13.36 £200.00 £15.98
Median % change year-on-year -93.32% +1151.56% -59.99%
75th Percentile £13.68 - £17.99
90th Percentile - - £19.20
Essex median hourly rate £20.26 £21.00 £72.75
% change year-on-year -3.55% -71.13% +43.87%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Southend-on-Sea

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

Security Operations job vacancy trend in Southend-on-Sea

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southend-on-Sea 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Target Operating Model
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC