Security Operations Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Security Operations (SecOps)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Security Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 42 53
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 +11
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.21% 0.66% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.74% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £458 -
25th Percentile £505 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £515 £544 £525
90th Percentile - £563 -
South East median daily rate £525 £528 £500
% change year-on-year -0.47% +5.50% -16.67%

All Process & 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 396 272 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 81.65% 90.07% 81.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 189 356
10th Percentile £254 £186 £213
25th Percentile £406 £285 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £619
90th Percentile £688 £657 £700
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 25 52
10th Percentile £21.64 £20.68 £11.71
25th Percentile £37.20 £24.18 £13.25
Median hourly rate £66.99 £27.50 £19.43
Median % change year-on-year +143.60% +41.57% -56.83%
75th Percentile £71.99 £43.39 £51.88
90th Percentile £79.37 £62.50 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +62.80% -37.78% -5.26%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Security Operations job vacancy trend in Surrey

Security Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Security Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Security Operations

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 11 April 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
Leatherhead - 1 £510 -
Security Operations
South East

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler