Security Operations Contracts in Warwickshire

Security Operations (SecOps)
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warwickshire requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 44 36
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 3 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 0.97% 0.30% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.32% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £483
25th Percentile - £613 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -13.79% +31.82%
75th Percentile - £638 £781
90th Percentile - - £860
West Midlands median daily rate £563 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warwickshire

Security Operations 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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 278 309 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 89.97% 91.42% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 209 228
10th Percentile £235 £318 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.71% +5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £599 £700 £638
90th Percentile £664 £850 £741
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 31 3
10th Percentile £14.70 £13.18 £14.39
25th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £14.43
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +55.17% -27.50%
75th Percentile £28.18 £26.95 £19.13
90th Percentile £45.33 £35.00 £21.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

Job postings citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Warwickshire

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in Warwickshire

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwick -3 3 - -
Security Operations
West Midlands

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Operations Management
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) SOAR
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CEH
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Proofpoint
2 1 (33.33%) FireEye
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Tanium