Protective Monitoring Contracts

Protective Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 495 610
Rank change year-on-year -40 +115 +222
Contract jobs citing Protective Monitoring 13 98 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.23% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.27% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 64 33
10th Percentile £525 £513 £475
25th Percentile £544 £582 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +27.27% -10.93%
75th Percentile £634 £850 £613
90th Percentile £638 - £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £700 £555
% change year-on-year -12.50% +26.13% -26.00%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £59.80
% change year-on-year - - +28.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,604 36,487 50,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.43% 85.35% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,633 23,275 34,708
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% +0.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,516 2,444 1,698
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £13.17
25th Percentile £17.45 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%
75th Percentile £53.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.62 £38.12 £37.93
% change year-on-year -35.41% +0.51% +77.30%

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
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 13 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
England -46 13 £613 -12.50% 9
London +37 7 £588 -21.67%
UK excluding London -62 6 £613 -12.50% 9
Work from Home +28 3 £550 -17.91% 7
West Midlands +3 2 - - 2
Midlands -2 2 - - 2
North of England -10 2 £625 -21.88%
South West -12 2 £625 -9.42% 4
North West - 2 £625 -
South East +13 1 £600 -20.00% 2

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) nginx
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (38.46%) Serverless
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon Cognito
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 2 (15.38%) Route 53
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DHCP
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
1 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
1 3 (23.08%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) HTTP
2 2 (15.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (23.08%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Electronics
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
2 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SOC Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) SOC Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Bid Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Data Scientist
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Implementation Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (7.69%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (23.08%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Unix
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (38.46%) Incident Response
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
5 2 (15.38%) Open Source
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
5 2 (15.38%) Secrets Management
5 2 (15.38%) SIEM
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) Perl
2 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) FortiGate
3 2 (15.38%) Kibana
3 2 (15.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Splunk
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) SAP
4 1 (7.69%) Tenable