Protective Monitoring Contracts

Protective Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 642 810
Rank change year-on-year +141 +168 -180
Contract jobs citing Protective Monitoring 78 58 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.097% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.11% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 35 43
10th Percentile £513 £485 £465
25th Percentile £535 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.39% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £850 £669 £738
90th Percentile - £745 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £613 £750
% change year-on-year +2.04% -18.33% +42.86%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - £59.80 £48.27
% change year-on-year - +23.89% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Protective Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Protective Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Protective Monitoring in the UK

Protective Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Protective Monitoring.

Daily rate trend for Protective Monitoring in the UK

Protective Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Protective Monitoring over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Protective Monitoring in the UK

Protective Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Protective Monitoring.

Hourly rate trend for Protective Monitoring in the UK

Protective Monitoring
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England +132 74 £645 +15.18% 15
UK excluding London +87 62 £625 +2.04% 11
South West +51 32 £538 -10.33% 2
South East +49 26 £800 +36.17% 3
Yorkshire +37 18 £800 +14.29% 6
North of England +25 18 £800 +36.17% 6
West Midlands +33 9 £582 -10.54%
Midlands +25 9 £582 +7.19%
Work from Home +113 8 £538 -6.52% 3
London +111 5 £750 +36.36% 1

Protective Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (14.10%) Azure
2 9 (11.54%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
3 2 (2.56%) AWS
3 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.56%) IaaS
3 2 (2.56%) Route 53
3 2 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) Firewall
2 3 (3.85%) VPN
3 2 (2.56%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (2.56%) LAN
3 2 (2.56%) WAN
3 2 (2.56%) Wireless
3 2 (2.56%) WLAN
4 1 (1.28%) Network Security
4 1 (1.28%) SMS
4 1 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 46 (58.97%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.82%) Telecoms
4 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (46.15%) Analyst
2 22 (28.21%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 11 (14.10%) Consultant
3 11 (14.10%) Lead
4 10 (12.82%) SOC Analyst
5 9 (11.54%) SIEM Consultant
6 4 (5.13%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 4 (5.13%) Security Analyst
7 2 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.56%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (2.56%) Security Consultant
7 2 (2.56%) Support Consultant
8 1 (1.28%) Architect
8 1 (1.28%) Incident Analyst
8 1 (1.28%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (1.28%) Network Architect
8 1 (1.28%) Network Engineer
8 1 (1.28%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (1.28%) SIEM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.28%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 71 (91.03%) Cyber Threat
2 65 (83.33%) Cyber Defence
3 63 (80.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 40 (51.28%) Management Information System
5 6 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.85%) Linux
1 3 (3.85%) Windows
2 2 (2.56%) CentOS
2 2 (2.56%) Ubuntu
2 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (94.87%) Cybersecurity
2 64 (82.05%) SIEM
3 57 (73.08%) Incident Management
3 57 (73.08%) Incident Response
4 53 (67.95%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 48 (61.54%) Case Management
5 48 (61.54%) Root Cause Analysis
6 47 (60.26%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 47 (60.26%) Threat Intelligence
7 46 (58.97%) Information Security
8 44 (56.41%) Mentoring
9 39 (50.00%) SOAR
9 39 (50.00%) Use Case
10 36 (46.15%) CRM
11 17 (21.79%) Security Operations
12 11 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (11.54%) Computer Science
13 9 (11.54%) Dashboard Development
13 9 (11.54%) Ethical Hacking
13 9 (11.54%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.28%) C#
1 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (94.87%) Security Cleared
2 64 (82.05%) DV Cleared
3 17 (21.79%) SC Cleared
4 9 (11.54%) CEH
4 9 (11.54%) CISSP
4 9 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (11.54%) Degree
5 3 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (57.69%) NIST
1 45 (57.69%) NIST 800
2 2 (2.56%) RMADS
3 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (11.54%) Kibana
1 9 (11.54%) logstash
2 2 (2.56%) Ansible
2 2 (2.56%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.56%) Puppet
2 2 (2.56%) Terraform
3 1 (1.28%) QRadar
3 1 (1.28%) SCOM
3 1 (1.28%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 61 (78.21%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.56%) Cisco
2 2 (2.56%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.28%) LogRhythm
3 1 (1.28%) Splunk