Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends

Security Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 434 438
Rank change year-on-year +24 +4 +67
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 299 124 121
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.41% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 64 94
10th Percentile £406 £400 £427
25th Percentile £463 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £551 £545
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +1.15% -3.11%
75th Percentile £675 £653 £650
90th Percentile £775 £785 £784
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £513 £564
% change year-on-year +12.20% -9.09% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile £79.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Security 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 46,126 29,916 32,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.50% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,740 18,573 19,640
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,322 1,863 1,307
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.95 £65.23 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.32 £42.50
% change year-on-year +68.05% -47.49% -

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in the UK

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Security Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Security Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Monitoring over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Monitoring within the UK over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. 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 +36 266 £563 -2.17% 275
UK excluding London -18 141 £575 +12.20% 149
London -18 128 £550 -10.20% 137
Work from Home -11 94 £500 +5.04% 134
South East -17 59 £600 +33.33% 42
North of England -48 27 £510 +27.50% 34
South West -24 22 £613 +25.64% 14
North West -27 18 £513 - 26
East of England - 15 £700 - 15
Midlands -51 11 £500 -13.04% 22
West Midlands -45 10 £500 -13.04% 11
Yorkshire -40 8 £520 +30.00% 5
Scotland -20 4 £447 -18.73% 16
Northern Ireland - 2 £550 - 7
East Midlands -13 1 £675 - 11
Wales - 1 - - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £575 -

Security Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.01%) IIS
1 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (0.33%) Apache
3 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) InfoPath
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 124 (41.47%) Azure
2 74 (24.75%) AWS
3 51 (17.06%) Azure Sentinel
4 44 (14.72%) Entra ID
5 32 (10.70%) GCP
6 31 (10.37%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (5.02%) GitHub
9 14 (4.68%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (2.68%) AWS CloudTrail
12 8 (2.68%) SaaS
12 8 (2.68%) Serverless
13 7 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (11.71%) Network Security
2 30 (10.03%) Firewall
3 20 (6.69%) Intrusion Detection
4 9 (3.01%) DNS
4 9 (3.01%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.68%) VPN
6 6 (2.01%) DHCP
7 5 (1.67%) SSH
7 5 (1.67%) WAN
8 4 (1.34%) Internet
9 2 (0.67%) BGP
9 2 (0.67%) HTTP
9 2 (0.67%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.67%) Modbus
9 2 (0.67%) OSPF
9 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.67%) Wireless
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.33%) DKIM
10 1 (0.33%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.01%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (1.34%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.67%) Metadata
4 1 (0.33%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (3.01%) GitLab
2 7 (2.34%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.34%) JIRA
3 2 (0.67%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.67%) Git
4 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 89 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 46 (15.38%) Finance
3 45 (15.05%) Public Sector
4 43 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.01%) Banking
7 8 (2.68%) Military
8 7 (2.34%) Legal
9 6 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.01%) Law
9 6 (2.01%) Local Government
10 5 (1.67%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.67%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.67%) Police
11 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Aviation
12 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (23.08%) Analyst
2 56 (18.73%) Security Engineer
3 44 (14.72%) SOC Analyst
4 37 (12.37%) Security Analyst
5 32 (10.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 28 (9.36%) Senior
7 27 (9.03%) Architect
8 22 (7.36%) Lead
9 21 (7.02%) SOC Engineer
9 21 (7.02%) SOC Manager
10 19 (6.35%) Security Architect
11 17 (5.69%) Consultant
12 16 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (5.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 16 (5.35%) Security Manager
13 15 (5.02%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (3.68%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 11 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.68%) Security Consultant
15 10 (3.34%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.72%) Terraform
2 15 (5.02%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (3.34%) REST
4 8 (2.68%) ARM Templates
5 6 (2.01%) Kafka
5 6 (2.01%) SAML
6 5 (1.67%) ADO
6 5 (1.67%) Azure Blueprints
6 5 (1.67%) OpenID
7 4 (1.34%) LDAP
7 4 (1.34%) OAuth
8 3 (1.00%) Keycloak
9 2 (0.67%) JSON
9 2 (0.67%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.67%) XML
10 1 (0.33%) Apache Avro
10 1 (0.33%) Pyramid
10 1 (0.33%) Regular Expression
10 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 51 (17.06%) Security Posture
2 43 (14.38%) Security Operations Centre
3 39 (13.04%) Cyber Threat
4 37 (12.37%) Onboarding
5 26 (8.70%) Cloud Native
6 22 (7.36%) Management Information System
7 14 (4.68%) Cyber Defence
8 10 (3.34%) CSOC
8 10 (3.34%) Operational Technology
9 8 (2.68%) Cyberattack
9 8 (2.68%) Data Centre
10 7 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.34%) Public Cloud
11 6 (2.01%) Cyber Security Posture
11 6 (2.01%) PKI
12 5 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.67%) Mobile Payment
12 5 (1.67%) NHS
12 5 (1.67%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.05%) Windows
2 40 (13.38%) Linux
3 13 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.01%) Unix
6 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.33%) Android
7 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (62.21%) Cybersecurity
2 179 (59.87%) SIEM
3 146 (48.83%) Incident Response
4 145 (48.49%) Security Operations
5 103 (34.45%) Cloud Security
6 95 (31.77%) Threat Detection
7 72 (24.08%) Threat Intelligence
8 67 (22.41%) Vulnerability Management
9 64 (21.40%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 61 (20.40%) Stakeholder Management
11 52 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 51 (17.06%) Incident Management
13 50 (16.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 48 (16.05%) Identity Access Management
15 46 (15.38%) Use Case
16 45 (15.05%) Analytics
17 44 (14.72%) MITRE ATT&CK
18 43 (14.38%) SOAR
19 42 (14.05%) Security Architecture
20 41 (13.71%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 48 (16.05%) PowerShell
2 38 (12.71%) Python
3 27 (9.03%) Kusto Query Language
4 22 (7.36%) Bash
5 19 (6.35%) Bicep
6 9 (3.01%) Java
6 9 (3.01%) Search Processing Language
7 7 (2.34%) SQL
8 3 (1.00%) Perl
9 2 (0.67%) C
9 2 (0.67%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.33%) C++
10 1 (0.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 138 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 79 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 69 (23.08%) CISSP
4 64 (21.40%) DV Cleared
5 49 (16.39%) CISM
6 29 (9.70%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (8.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 24 (8.03%) Degree
9 19 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (6.02%) AWS Certification
11 17 (5.69%) Azure Certification
12 16 (5.35%) CompTIA Security+
13 13 (4.35%) CCSP
13 13 (4.35%) GCIH
14 12 (4.01%) GIAC
15 11 (3.68%) CompTIA CySA+
16 10 (3.34%) GCIA
17 9 (3.01%) CEH
18 8 (2.68%) CISA
18 8 (2.68%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (18.39%) NIST
2 48 (16.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (9.36%) NCSC
4 27 (9.03%) GDPR
5 19 (6.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (4.68%) GRC
6 14 (4.68%) PCI DSS
7 12 (4.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 11 (3.68%) NIST 800
9 6 (2.01%) QA
10 5 (1.67%) Data Quality
10 5 (1.67%) ISO 31000
10 5 (1.67%) ISO 9001
10 5 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 5 (1.67%) SLA
11 4 (1.34%) COBIT
11 4 (1.34%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.67%) IASME
12 2 (0.67%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 37 (12.37%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.34%) Docker
3 5 (1.67%) ISA Server
4 4 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.67%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
6 1 (0.33%) NFS
6 1 (0.33%) Samba
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (10.70%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.69%) Ansible
3 16 (5.35%) QRadar
4 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.68%) CASB
5 8 (2.68%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.67%) Control-M
6 5 (1.67%) Istio
6 5 (1.67%) linkerd
7 4 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.00%) Argo
8 3 (1.00%) Grafana
8 3 (1.00%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.00%) SCOM
9 2 (0.67%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.67%) Kibana
9 2 (0.67%) logstash
9 2 (0.67%) Puppet
9 2 (0.67%) SCCM
9 2 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 119 (39.80%) Microsoft
2 57 (19.06%) Splunk
3 24 (8.03%) Google
4 18 (6.02%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (4.01%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.34%) LogRhythm
7 8 (2.68%) Cisco
7 8 (2.68%) CyberArk
7 8 (2.68%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.68%) Qualys
7 8 (2.68%) Tripwire
7 8 (2.68%) Zscaler
8 7 (2.34%) BeyondTrust
9 6 (2.01%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.67%) ArcSight
10 5 (1.67%) Clearswift
10 5 (1.67%) F5
10 5 (1.67%) Trend Micro
10 5 (1.67%) VMware
10 5 (1.67%) xMatters