Security Operations Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Security Operations (SecOps)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Security Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.94% - 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% - 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £480 - £463
25th Percentile £525 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £525
75th Percentile £675 - £538
90th Percentile £720 - £606
South East median daily rate £559 £600 £619
% change year-on-year -6.83% -3.07% +7.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 174 112 269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 82.08% 86.82% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 80 208
10th Percentile £170 £199 £239
25th Percentile £220 £372 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £565 £582 £588
90th Percentile £704 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 5
10th Percentile £12.63 - £16.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £27.00 £22.38
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -41.67% +136.74%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.04
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £53.00
% change year-on-year -64.48% +10.00% +49.63%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Operations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Security Operations job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Security Operations
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Security Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in West Sussex over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in West Sussex

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
Crawley - 1 £450 - 2
Worthing - 1 £750 - 1
Security Operations
South East

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (50.00%) Product Management
1 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SABSA
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST