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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 277 385
Rank change year-on-year +37 +108 -20
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 104 192 246
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.71% 0.79% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.88% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 132 184
10th Percentile £370 £400 £450
25th Percentile £425 £525 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £753 £728
90th Percentile £725 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £608 £600
% change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% +17.07%
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 12,872 21,860 40,145
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.79% 89.58% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,668 15,484 29,176
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 511 516
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.50 £14.38
25th Percentile £24.19 £26.13 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +45.83% +53.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
% change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%

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 25 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 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.27%) Azure
2 7 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (5.77%) AWS
4 4 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (2.88%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.92%) IaaS
6 2 (1.92%) SaaS
7 1 (0.96%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (0.96%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.96%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.96%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.96%) GCP
7 1 (0.96%) GitHub
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (19.23%) Firewall
2 11 (10.58%) Network Security
3 8 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (5.77%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.88%) DNS
5 3 (2.88%) LAN
5 3 (2.88%) tcpdump
5 3 (2.88%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.92%) SSL
6 2 (1.92%) VPN
6 2 (1.92%) WAN
7 1 (0.96%) BGP
7 1 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.96%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.96%) HTTP
7 1 (0.96%) IPsec
7 1 (0.96%) OSPF
7 1 (0.96%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.96%) SMTP
7 1 (0.96%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.88%) Apache Hive
1 3 (2.88%) Hadoop
1 3 (2.88%) Tableau
2 1 (0.96%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (3.85%) JIRA
2 3 (2.88%) IDA Disassembler
3 2 (1.92%) Git
4 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.96%) GitLab
4 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (10.58%) Finance
2 10 (9.62%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.77%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.77%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.81%) Banking
5 5 (4.81%) Law
6 4 (3.85%) Legal
7 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.92%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) German Language
9 1 (0.96%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Marketing
9 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (18.27%) Analyst
2 18 (17.31%) Senior
3 17 (16.35%) Security Specialist
4 13 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Architect
5 9 (8.65%) Consultant
5 9 (8.65%) Security Analyst
5 9 (8.65%) SOC Analyst
6 8 (7.69%) IT Security Specialist
6 8 (7.69%) Security Manager
6 8 (7.69%) Security Operations Specialist
7 6 (5.77%) Senior Security Engineer
7 6 (5.77%) SOC Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) Lead
8 5 (4.81%) Security Consultant
8 5 (4.81%) SOC Architect
9 4 (3.85%) Information Security Manager
9 4 (3.85%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 4 (3.85%) Senior Security Specialist
9 4 (3.85%) Splunk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.88%) JSON
1 3 (2.88%) OLE
1 3 (2.88%) XML
2 2 (1.92%) Ajax
2 2 (1.92%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.92%) CSS
2 2 (1.92%) HTML
2 2 (1.92%) SAML
2 2 (1.92%) SOAP
2 2 (1.92%) Web Services
3 1 (0.96%) .NET
3 1 (0.96%) OAuth
3 1 (0.96%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.96%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (22.12%) Management Information System
2 21 (20.19%) Security Operations Centre
3 15 (14.42%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (5.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (4.81%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.85%) CMDB
6 4 (3.85%) Cyberattack
7 3 (2.88%) YARA
8 2 (1.92%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.92%) CSOC
8 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.92%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.92%) PKI
8 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 26 (25.00%) Windows
2 16 (15.38%) Linux
3 7 (6.73%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.88%) Unix
5 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (49.04%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (45.19%) SIEM
3 46 (44.23%) Incident Response
4 37 (35.58%) Vulnerability Management
5 24 (23.08%) Data Loss Prevention
6 23 (22.12%) Information Security
7 19 (18.27%) Penetration Testing
8 18 (17.31%) Data Security
9 15 (14.42%) Risk Management
10 14 (13.46%) Threat Intelligence
11 11 (10.58%) Agile
11 11 (10.58%) Incident Management
12 10 (9.62%) Threat Modelling
13 9 (8.65%) Cloud Security
13 9 (8.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 9 (8.65%) Data Protection
13 9 (8.65%) Use Case
14 8 (7.69%) ITIL
14 8 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
15 7 (6.73%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.62%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.77%) Python
3 5 (4.81%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.92%) Bash
5 1 (0.96%) Go
5 1 (0.96%) Java
5 1 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (18.27%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.42%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.62%) Degree
4 9 (8.65%) CISSP
5 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (5.77%) DV Cleared
6 6 (5.77%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (4.81%) MCSE
8 3 (2.88%) CISM
8 3 (2.88%) GCIH
9 2 (1.92%) GCIA
9 2 (1.92%) GIAC
10 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.96%) CEH
10 1 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.96%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.96%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.96%) ISSEP
10 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.96%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.46%) NIST
2 10 (9.62%) GDPR
3 8 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.81%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.92%) GRC
6 2 (1.92%) RMADS
7 1 (0.96%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.88%) Snort
3 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.92%) Docker
4 2 (1.92%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.92%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (3.85%) CSIRT
1 4 (3.85%) Nessus
2 3 (2.88%) Kibana
2 3 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.88%) Terraform
3 2 (1.92%) Ansible
3 2 (1.92%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (1.92%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 2 (1.92%) QRadar
3 2 (1.92%) SCCM
4 1 (0.96%) CASB
4 1 (0.96%) Grafana
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 19 (18.27%) Qualys
3 17 (16.35%) LogRhythm
3 17 (16.35%) Varonis
4 16 (15.38%) Forcepoint
5 11 (10.58%) Splunk
6 7 (6.73%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.81%) Cisco
7 5 (4.81%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.85%) Google
9 3 (2.88%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (2.88%) VMware
10 2 (1.92%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.92%) Citrix
10 2 (1.92%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.92%) ForeScout
10 2 (1.92%) Oracle
11 1 (0.96%) ArcSight
11 1 (0.96%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.96%) TippingPoint