Security Operations Analyst Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Operations Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Operations Analyst daily rate in Work from Home is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 441 616
Rank change year-on-year +101 +175 -134
Contract jobs requiring a Security Operations Analyst 4 30 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.12% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.12% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 21 4
10th Percentile £323 £400 -
25th Percentile £394 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +21.05% +80.95%
75th Percentile £631 £875 £509
90th Percentile £688 - £549
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +46.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Security Operations Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Security Operations Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Operations Analyst trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Operations Analyst.

Security Operations Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Operations Analyst over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Security Operations Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Security Operations Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Security Operations Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 1 (25.00%) Varonis
4 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Decision Tree
4 1 (25.00%) Darktrace
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) NIST
4 1 (25.00%) CSOC
4 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (25.00%) Investment Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) SMTP
4 1 (25.00%) HTTP
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP

Security Operations Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) SMTP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CSOC
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Decision Tree
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) Investment Management
4 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Varonis