Protective Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Protective Monitoring
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Protective Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 340 397
Rank change year-on-year -44 +57 +94
Contract jobs citing Protective Monitoring 8 15 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.10% 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.12% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 6
10th Percentile £374 £519 £547
25th Percentile £413 £613 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £750 £595
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +26.05% -19.32%
75th Percentile £536 £795 £649
90th Percentile £547 £819 £673
UK median daily rate £524 £750 £595
% change year-on-year -30.17% +26.05% -16.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Protective 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,596 12,890 17,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.88% 87.23% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,517 7,575 11,112
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,767 745 1,193
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.88 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.89% -31.39% +44.18%
75th Percentile £49.88 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.64 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.86
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.90% +25.31%

Protective Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Protective Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Protective Monitoring job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Protective Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Protective Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Protective Monitoring

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 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Protective Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Protective Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Protective Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Protective Monitoring

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 22 December 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
South East -20 3 £525 -2.55% 1
West Midlands -28 3 £368 -53.71%
Midlands -40 3 £368 -53.71%
South West -8 2 £475 -36.67% 6
Protective Monitoring
UK

Protective Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Internet
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
1 6 (75.00%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (37.50%) Cyberattack
1 3 (37.50%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (25.00%) CSOC
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Mac OS X
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) SIEM
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
4 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Use Case
5 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CEH
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) SLA
2 2 (25.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft