Security Operations Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Operations (SecOps)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Security Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 278 412
Rank change year-on-year +39 +134 -49
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 109 193 221
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 0.77% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.86% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 128 164
10th Percentile £379 £409 £450
25th Percentile £425 £525 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% +12.20%
75th Percentile £666 £763 £728
90th Percentile £725 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £606 £600
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £67.23
25th Percentile - - £69.06
Median hourly rate - - £73.25
75th Percentile - - £78.56
90th Percentile - - £81.08
UK median hourly rate £11.25 £84.50 £41.95
% change year-on-year -86.69% +101.43% +16.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Security Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,242 22,482 39,977
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.03% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,879 28,991
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 516 542
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.66 £13.78
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.29
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Security Operations
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Operations trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations
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.

Security Operations daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Operations over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Security Operations daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.43%) Azure
2 7 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (6.42%) Power Platform
3 6 (5.50%) AWS
4 4 (3.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.83%) IaaS
6 2 (1.83%) SaaS
7 1 (0.92%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (0.92%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.92%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.92%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.92%) GCP
7 1 (0.92%) GitHub
7 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.43%) Firewall
2 10 (9.17%) Network Security
3 8 (7.34%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (5.50%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.75%) DNS
5 3 (2.75%) LAN
5 3 (2.75%) tcpdump
5 3 (2.75%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.83%) VPN
6 2 (1.83%) WAN
7 1 (0.92%) BGP
7 1 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.92%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.92%) HTTP
7 1 (0.92%) IPsec
7 1 (0.92%) OSPF
7 1 (0.92%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.92%) SMTP
7 1 (0.92%) SSL
7 1 (0.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.67%) Power BI
2 3 (2.75%) Apache Hive
2 3 (2.75%) Hadoop
2 3 (2.75%) Tableau
3 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (3.67%) JIRA
2 3 (2.75%) IDA Disassembler
3 2 (1.83%) Git
4 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.92%) GitLab
4 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (11.93%) Finance
2 11 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.17%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.42%) Banking
6 6 (5.50%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.67%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.67%) Law
7 4 (3.67%) Legal
8 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.83%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.92%) Marketing
10 1 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (20.18%) Analyst
2 18 (16.51%) Senior
3 17 (15.60%) Security Specialist
4 13 (11.93%) Security Engineer
5 11 (10.09%) Architect
6 9 (8.26%) Security Analyst
6 9 (8.26%) SOC Analyst
6 9 (8.26%) SOC Engineer
7 8 (7.34%) Consultant
7 8 (7.34%) IT Security Specialist
7 8 (7.34%) Security Operations Specialist
8 7 (6.42%) Security Manager
9 6 (5.50%) Senior Security Engineer
9 6 (5.50%) SOC Architect
10 5 (4.59%) Lead
11 4 (3.67%) Information Manager
11 4 (3.67%) Information Security Manager
11 4 (3.67%) Operations Analyst
11 4 (3.67%) Vulnerability Analyst
11 4 (3.67%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.75%) JSON
1 3 (2.75%) OLE
1 3 (2.75%) XML
2 2 (1.83%) Ajax
2 2 (1.83%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.83%) CSS
2 2 (1.83%) HTML
2 2 (1.83%) SAML
2 2 (1.83%) SOAP
2 2 (1.83%) Web Services
3 1 (0.92%) .NET
3 1 (0.92%) OAuth
3 1 (0.92%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.92%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.18%) Management Information System
1 22 (20.18%) Security Operations Centre
2 12 (11.01%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (5.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 6 (5.50%) Security Posture
4 5 (4.59%) CMDB
5 4 (3.67%) Cyberattack
6 3 (2.75%) YARA
7 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.83%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.83%) CSOC
7 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.83%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.83%) PKI
7 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.94%) Windows
2 15 (13.76%) Linux
3 7 (6.42%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.75%) Unix
5 1 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (48.62%) Cybersecurity
2 51 (46.79%) Incident Response
3 47 (43.12%) SIEM
4 40 (36.70%) Vulnerability Management
5 26 (23.85%) Information Security
6 24 (22.02%) Data Loss Prevention
7 18 (16.51%) Data Security
7 18 (16.51%) Penetration Testing
8 16 (14.68%) Risk Management
9 15 (13.76%) Threat Intelligence
10 11 (10.09%) Incident Management
11 10 (9.17%) Agile
11 10 (9.17%) Cloud Security
12 9 (8.26%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 9 (8.26%) Data Protection
12 9 (8.26%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (8.26%) Threat Modelling
12 9 (8.26%) Use Case
13 8 (7.34%) Identity Access Management
13 8 (7.34%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.09%) PowerShell
2 7 (6.42%) Python
3 6 (5.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.83%) Bash
4 2 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.92%) Go
5 1 (0.92%) Java
5 1 (0.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (21.10%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.51%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.84%) CISSP
4 9 (8.26%) Degree
5 7 (6.42%) DV Cleared
5 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (5.50%) CISM
7 5 (4.59%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (3.67%) MCSE
9 3 (2.75%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.92%) CCNA
11 1 (0.92%) CCSP
11 1 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.92%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.92%) ISSEP
11 1 (0.92%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.93%) NIST
2 9 (8.26%) GDPR
3 7 (6.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.67%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.75%) GRC
6 2 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.83%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.83%) RMADS
7 1 (0.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (11.93%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.75%) Snort
2 3 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.83%) Docker
3 2 (1.83%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.83%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (3.67%) CSIRT
2 3 (2.75%) Kibana
2 3 (2.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.75%) Nessus
2 3 (2.75%) Terraform
3 2 (1.83%) Ansible
3 2 (1.83%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (1.83%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 2 (1.83%) SCCM
4 1 (0.92%) CASB
4 1 (0.92%) Grafana
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.92%) Puppet
4 1 (0.92%) QRadar
Vendors
1 38 (34.86%) Microsoft
2 23 (21.10%) Qualys
3 17 (15.60%) LogRhythm
3 17 (15.60%) Varonis
4 16 (14.68%) Forcepoint
5 12 (11.01%) Splunk
6 7 (6.42%) Palo Alto
7 6 (5.50%) ServiceNow
8 5 (4.59%) Cisco
9 4 (3.67%) Google
10 3 (2.75%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (2.75%) VMware
11 2 (1.83%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.83%) Citrix
11 2 (1.83%) CyberArk
11 2 (1.83%) ForeScout
12 1 (0.92%) ArcSight
12 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.92%) F5
12 1 (0.92%) TippingPoint