Security Monitoring Contracts

Security Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Security Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 439 505
Rank change year-on-year +8 +66 +146
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 87 146 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.34% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.40% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 109 136
10th Percentile £429 £419 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £510 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.39% -15.00% +3.23%
75th Percentile £606 £588 £650
90th Percentile £692 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £65.18 £33.43
25th Percentile - £67.31 £43.06
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year - +15.02% -
75th Percentile - £76.31 £85.56
90th Percentile - £77.33 £96.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £72.75 £29.00
% change year-on-year - +150.86% -

All Process and 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 26,410 36,868 52,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.96% 86.23% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,944 23,721 36,208
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,076 2,429 1,718
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.22
Median hourly rate £28.17 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.84% +1.39% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.23 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.83% +8.91% +75.00%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Top 13 Contract 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 14 May 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 +21 82 £538 +7.50% 102
UK excluding London 0 42 £538 +7.50% 60
London +42 37 £525 -5.83% 50
Work from Home +31 34 £500 - 48
South East +59 29 £525 +9.38% 21
South West +8 6 £450 -9.09% 8
North of England +20 3 £600 -11.24% 16
East of England +26 2 - - 6
North West +12 2 £525 -22.34% 7
Midlands +4 2 £600 +9.09% 8
West Midlands +3 2 £600 +9.09% 7
Scotland -7 1 - - 3
North East - 1 £625 -

Security 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 7 (8.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.15%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 35 (40.23%) Azure
2 14 (16.09%) AWS
3 12 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (10.34%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (8.05%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.90%) GCP
7 3 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.15%) Datadog
9 1 (1.15%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.15%) OCI
9 1 (1.15%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.15%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.15%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 33 (37.93%) Firewall
2 19 (21.84%) Network Security
3 16 (18.39%) VPN
4 7 (8.05%) Internet
5 6 (6.90%) BGP
5 6 (6.90%) OSPF
5 6 (6.90%) TCP/IP
5 6 (6.90%) VLAN
6 5 (5.75%) DNS
7 4 (4.60%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (4.60%) SD-WAN
7 4 (4.60%) WAN
8 3 (3.45%) SSL
8 3 (3.45%) Wireless
9 2 (2.30%) BIG-IP
9 2 (2.30%) DHCP
9 2 (2.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (2.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.05%) Power BI
2 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.15%) Git
2 1 (1.15%) GitLab
2 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.20%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.90%) Finance
5 3 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.45%) Legal
5 3 (3.45%) Military
6 2 (2.30%) Local Government
6 2 (2.30%) Marketing
6 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (21.84%) Analyst
2 13 (14.94%) Architect
2 13 (14.94%) Security Architect
2 13 (14.94%) Senior
3 12 (13.79%) Security Engineer
4 11 (12.64%) SOC Analyst
5 8 (9.20%) Security Analyst
6 7 (8.05%) IT Manager
6 7 (8.05%) IT Services Manager
6 7 (8.05%) Senior Manager
6 7 (8.05%) Service Manager
7 5 (5.75%) Consultant
7 5 (5.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Lead
7 5 (5.75%) Network Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Senior IT Manager
7 5 (5.75%) Senior Service Manager
8 4 (4.60%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.15%) OAuth
1 1 (1.15%) SAML
1 1 (1.15%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.84%) Security Posture
2 15 (17.24%) Security Operations Centre
3 7 (8.05%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (8.05%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (6.90%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.60%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.45%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.30%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.30%) PKI
7 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.15%) Insider Threat
8 1 (1.15%) IoT
8 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.15%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.90%) Windows
2 5 (5.75%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.60%) Linux
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (50.57%) Incident Response
1 44 (50.57%) SIEM
2 40 (45.98%) Cybersecurity
3 34 (39.08%) Security Operations
4 27 (31.03%) Vulnerability Management
5 24 (27.59%) Threat Detection
6 17 (19.54%) Cloud Security
6 17 (19.54%) Threat Intelligence
7 16 (18.39%) Penetration Testing
8 15 (17.24%) Analytics
9 14 (16.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 13 (14.94%) Incident Management
10 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (13.79%) Risk Management
12 10 (11.49%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 9 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (10.34%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 9 (10.34%) Security Architecture
13 9 (10.34%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.54%) Python
2 10 (11.49%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.60%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (2.30%) Bash
5 1 (1.15%) C++
5 1 (1.15%) Java
5 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.15%) Rust
5 1 (1.15%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (28.74%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.84%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.94%) CISSP
4 10 (11.49%) CompTIA Security+
5 9 (10.34%) Degree
6 6 (6.90%) CCNP
6 6 (6.90%) CCSA
6 6 (6.90%) CCSE
6 6 (6.90%) Check Point Certification
6 6 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (5.75%) CISM
7 5 (5.75%) DV Cleared
8 4 (4.60%) CEH
8 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (4.60%) GCIA
8 4 (4.60%) GCIH
9 3 (3.45%) GCFA
9 3 (3.45%) PMP
10 2 (2.30%) GIAC
11 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (14.94%) NIST
3 9 (10.34%) GDPR
4 5 (5.75%) HIPAA
4 5 (5.75%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.45%) NCSC
6 2 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.15%) GRC
7 1 (1.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (8.05%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (9.20%) SCCM
3 7 (8.05%) Ansible
4 3 (3.45%) QRadar
4 3 (3.45%) Terraform
5 2 (2.30%) CASB
5 2 (2.30%) CSIRT
5 2 (2.30%) OPNET
5 2 (2.30%) SCOrch
6 1 (1.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.64%) Palo Alto
3 10 (11.49%) Splunk
4 9 (10.34%) Cisco
5 8 (9.20%) CheckPoint
6 5 (5.75%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.60%) Rapid7
8 2 (2.30%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.30%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.30%) F5
8 2 (2.30%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.30%) HP
8 2 (2.30%) Infoblox
8 2 (2.30%) Meraki
8 2 (2.30%) Qualys
8 2 (2.30%) Remedy
9 1 (1.15%) Alibaba
9 1 (1.15%) Darktrace
9 1 (1.15%) Netskope
9 1 (1.15%) Zscaler