Hybrid/Remote Security Operations Specialist Contract Job Trends

Security Operations Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Operations Specialist daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
27 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Operations Specialist 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.015% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 - £650
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 12,503 9,200 12,120
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 93.76% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,876 6,082 8,022
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £427 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -0.94%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £710 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 652 305 336
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.10 £17.29
25th Percentile £26.78 £17.80 £28.44
Median hourly rate £60.00 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -20.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.86 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -1.44%

Security Operations Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Security Operations Specialist' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Security Operations Specialist job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Security Operations Specialist
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Security Operations Specialist job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Security Operations Specialist job vacancies

Security Operations Specialist Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 27 August 2026, Security Operations Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Security Operations Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) E-Discovery
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) FireEye
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Micro
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation

Security Operations Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) E-Discovery
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) FireEye
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Micro
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