Security Operations Contracts in West London

Security Operations (SecOps)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 43 57
Rank change year-on-year +15 +14 +5
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 3 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.33% 1.08% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.21% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 13
10th Percentile - £385 £385
25th Percentile - £475 £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £611 £850
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% -28.09% +51.79%
75th Percentile - £680 £875
90th Percentile - £692 -
London median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 211 331 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 93.78% 89.22% 92.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 238 451
10th Percentile £225 £250 £306
25th Percentile £331 £350 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £486 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.65% -15.43% +11.91%
75th Percentile £513 £588 £650
90th Percentile £600 £650 £703
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 27 44
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.25 £26.78
25th Percentile £20.45 £20.22 £38.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.16 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.61% -53.24% +230.77%
75th Percentile £32.60 £58.75 £76.25
90th Percentile £52.90 £65.80 £90.00
London median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £39.92
% change year-on-year +11.11% -26.72% +9.63%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in West London

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in West London

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Hillingdon +8 2 - - 1
Security Operations
London

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DMVPN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Forensic Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper