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 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 304 388
Rank change year-on-year -56 +84 +117
Contract jobs citing Protective Monitoring 6 87 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.42% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.51% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 60 20
10th Percentile £603 £513 £466
25th Percentile £606 £582 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +27.27% -26.67%
75th Percentile £619 £850 £628
90th Percentile £623 - £700
UK median daily rate £613 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +27.27% -10.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £51.70
25th Percentile - - £54.74
Median hourly rate - - £59.80
75th Percentile - - £60.25
90th Percentile - - £60.52
UK median hourly rate - - £59.80
% change year-on-year - - +28.92%

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 13,228 17,165 20,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.29% 82.83% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,022 10,165 14,067
10th Percentile £240 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,192 2,075 1,271
10th Percentile £13.86 £12.53 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £16.99
Median hourly rate £24.34 £38.12 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% -0.99% +79.07%
75th Percentile £51.23 £62.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.55 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +50.94%

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
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 15 July 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
West Midlands +1 2 - - 2
Midlands -1 2 - - 2
South West -11 2 £625 -9.42% 4
North of England -21 2 £625 -21.88%
North West - 2 £625 -
South East +10 1 £600 -20.00% 2
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 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Electronics
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) SOC Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) SOC Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Bid Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Implementation Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Implementation Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Boundary Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Forensics
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Tenable