Protective Monitoring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Protective Monitoring
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Protective Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Protective Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 384 492
Rank change year-on-year +65 +108 -67
Contract jobs citing Protective Monitoring 82 46 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.20% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.23% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 19 9
10th Percentile £513 £495 £463
25th Percentile £582 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £588 £750
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% -21.67% +47.78%
75th Percentile £850 £651 £800
90th Percentile - £700 -
UK median daily rate £675 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +22.77% - +3.29%
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 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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +45 47 £650 +8.33% 3
South East +45 31 £750 +27.66%
Yorkshire +34 21 £800 +14.29% 3
North of England +13 21 £800 +36.17% 4
West Midlands +18 8 £538 -17.23%
Midlands +12 8 £538 -0.83%
Scotland +47 1 £650 +8.33%
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 (2.44%) Azure
1 2 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
General
1 59 (71.95%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.63%) Telecoms
3 10 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.44%) Electronics
4 2 (2.44%) Finance
4 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (34.15%) Analyst
2 20 (24.39%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 15 (18.29%) Consultant
4 13 (15.85%) SIEM Consultant
5 11 (13.41%) Lead
6 3 (3.66%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (3.66%) Incident Analyst
6 3 (3.66%) Security Analyst
6 3 (3.66%) SIEM Analyst
6 3 (3.66%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (2.44%) Architect
7 2 (2.44%) Migration Architect
7 2 (2.44%) Security Consultant
7 2 (2.44%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (2.44%) Support Consultant
8 1 (1.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 1 (1.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (1.22%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (1.22%) SOC Manager
8 1 (1.22%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.85%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 76 (92.68%) Cyber Threat
2 69 (84.15%) Cyber Defence
3 66 (80.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 41 (50.00%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (95.12%) Cybersecurity
2 68 (82.93%) SIEM
3 63 (76.83%) Incident Management
4 62 (75.61%) Incident Response
5 57 (69.51%) Mentoring
6 56 (68.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 47 (57.32%) Case Management
8 45 (54.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 45 (54.88%) Information Security
8 45 (54.88%) Root Cause Analysis
8 45 (54.88%) SOAR
8 45 (54.88%) Threat Intelligence
8 45 (54.88%) Use Case
9 43 (52.44%) CRM
10 8 (9.76%) Security Operations
11 5 (6.10%) Vulnerability Management
12 2 (2.44%) Business Intelligence
12 2 (2.44%) Dashboard Development
12 2 (2.44%) Problem-Solving
12 2 (2.44%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 78 (95.12%) Security Cleared
2 73 (89.02%) DV Cleared
3 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.44%) CEH
4 2 (2.44%) CISSP
4 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (60.98%) NIST
1 50 (60.98%) NIST 800
2 2 (2.44%) RMADS
3 1 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 12 (14.63%) Kibana
1 12 (14.63%) logstash
2 2 (2.44%) QRadar
Vendors
1 65 (79.27%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.63%) Tanium
3 2 (2.44%) SAP
4 1 (1.22%) LogRhythm
4 1 (1.22%) Splunk