Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Security Monitoring
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 49 58
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +31
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 3 8 18
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.51% 1.68% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.98% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 17
10th Percentile £406 £323 £460
25th Percentile £414 £393 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% +9.09% -9.09%
75th Percentile £489 £644 £620
90th Percentile £507 £650 £667
South West median daily rate £450 £725 £550
% change year-on-year -37.93% +31.82% -11.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 in Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 494 405 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 83.59% 85.08% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 276 502
10th Percentile £389 £340 £351
25th Percentile £513 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -
75th Percentile £713 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 13
10th Percentile £12.50 - £14.36
25th Percentile £13.75 £12.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £36.40 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.82% -27.21% -23.66%
75th Percentile £24.50 £60.00 £69.50
90th Percentile £25.15 - £75.50
South West median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Swindon - 2 £400 -
Corsham -21 1 £488 -18.75%
Security Monitoring
South West

Security Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CEH
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Icinga
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) LogRhythm
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft