Protective Monitoring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Protective Monitoring
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Protective Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Protective Monitoring over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 407 494
Rank change year-on-year +86 +87 -88
Contract jobs citing Protective Monitoring 67 46 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.20% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.22% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 21 10
10th Percentile £513 £500 £463
25th Percentile £535 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £723 £600 £694
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -13.51% +32.14%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £794
90th Percentile - £750 £800
UK median daily rate £645 £555 £525
% change year-on-year +16.22% +5.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £51.70 £42.80
25th Percentile - £54.74 £44.39
Median hourly rate - £59.80 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year - +23.89% -
75th Percentile - £60.25 £50.15
90th Percentile - £60.52 £50.52
UK median hourly rate - £59.80 £48.27
% change year-on-year - +23.89% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Protective Monitoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Protective Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Protective Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Protective Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Protective Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Protective Monitoring in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Protective Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Protective Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Protective Monitoring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Protective Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Protective Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Protective Monitoring in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Protective Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Protective Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Protective Monitoring within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
South West +43 34 £544 -9.33% 3
South East +44 26 £800 +36.17% 2
Yorkshire +41 21 £800 +14.29% 8
North of England +21 21 £800 +36.17% 10
Midlands +27 9 £582 +7.19%
West Midlands +19 9 £582 -10.54%
Protective Monitoring
UK

Protective Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.99%) Azure
1 2 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) Firewall
1 1 (1.49%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
General
1 48 (71.64%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.93%) Telecoms
3 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (40.30%) Analyst
2 21 (31.34%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 13 (19.40%) Consultant
4 11 (16.42%) Lead
4 11 (16.42%) SIEM Consultant
5 3 (4.48%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (4.48%) Security Analyst
5 3 (4.48%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (2.99%) Security Consultant
6 2 (2.99%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Support Consultant
7 1 (1.49%) Architect
7 1 (1.49%) Incident Analyst
7 1 (1.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.49%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.49%) Network Architect
7 1 (1.49%) SIEM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 63 (94.03%) Cyber Threat
2 58 (86.57%) Cyber Defence
3 56 (83.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 33 (49.25%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.97%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (95.52%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (82.09%) SIEM
3 51 (76.12%) Incident Management
3 51 (76.12%) Incident Response
4 46 (68.66%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 45 (67.16%) Mentoring
6 38 (56.72%) Case Management
7 36 (53.73%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 36 (53.73%) Information Security
7 36 (53.73%) Root Cause Analysis
7 36 (53.73%) SOAR
7 36 (53.73%) Threat Intelligence
7 36 (53.73%) Use Case
8 33 (49.25%) CRM
9 8 (11.94%) Security Operations
10 5 (7.46%) Vulnerability Management
11 2 (2.99%) Computer Science
11 2 (2.99%) Ethical Hacking
11 2 (2.99%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (2.99%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 64 (95.52%) Security Cleared
2 57 (85.07%) DV Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.99%) CEH
4 2 (2.99%) CISSP
4 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.99%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (61.19%) NIST
1 41 (61.19%) NIST 800
2 2 (2.99%) RMADS
3 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Kibana
1 2 (2.99%) logstash
2 1 (1.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 53 (79.10%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.49%) LogRhythm