Security Operations Contracts in Surrey

Security Operations (SecOps)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 54 68
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 +8
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.67% 0.34% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.41% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £458 £511 -
25th Percentile £469 £564 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £665 £600
Median % change year-on-year -24.81% +10.83% -
75th Percentile £544 £754 -
90th Percentile £563 £800 -
South East median daily rate £525 £517 £619
% change year-on-year +1.65% -16.56% +20.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 484 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.60% 82.45% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 352 436
10th Percentile £188 £213 £198
25th Percentile £280 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £544 £619 £625
90th Percentile £659 £700 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 55 33
10th Percentile £20.63 £11.71 £32.10
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £26.33 £20.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% -54.44% +87.50%
75th Percentile £40.98 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Surrey

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in Surrey

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 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
Guildford - 1 £450 - 6
Woking - 1 £550 - 6
Security Operations
South East

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Akamai
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk and Compliance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) CSIRT
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Dell KACE
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Ubiquiti