Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Security Monitoring
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 120 132
Rank change year-on-year +14 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 10 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.59% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.32% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile - £466 £543
25th Percentile - £471 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -23.20% -
75th Percentile - £563 £644
90th Percentile £578 £608 £648
South East median daily rate £488 £595 £625
% change year-on-year -18.07% -4.80% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,532 1,851 2,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.38% 85.97% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 943 1,047 1,613
10th Percentile £263 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.49% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 73 92
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.71 £16.44
25th Percentile £15.91 £27.75 £25.19
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.30 £54.47
Median % change year-on-year -56.86% +7.03% +182.97%
75th Percentile £49.28 £63.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £73.65 £75.17 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £58.49 £54.38
% change year-on-year -63.67% +7.56% +61.29%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Security Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Security Monitoring

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Security Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Security Monitoring

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Berkshire +11 6 £450 -18.18% 2
Oxfordshire - 4 - - 2
Security Monitoring
South East

Security Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Network Security
2 4 (40.00%) BGP
2 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 4 (40.00%) OSPF
2 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (40.00%) VLAN
2 4 (40.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) IPFIX
3 1 (10.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (10.00%) Architect
1 1 (10.00%) Consultant
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) SIEM
2 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
2 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (40.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CCNP
1 4 (40.00%) CCSA
1 4 (40.00%) CCSE
1 4 (40.00%) Check Point Certification
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) HIPAA
1 4 (40.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 5 (50.00%) Splunk
2 4 (40.00%) CheckPoint
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft