Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Security Monitoring
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 99 117
Rank change year-on-year -4 +18 +29
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 11 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.71% 0.26% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.31% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £381 £556 -
25th Percentile £389 £566 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £588 £300
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% +95.83% -50.00%
75th Percentile £542 £616 £325
90th Percentile £563 £629 -
England median daily rate £545 £538 £586
% change year-on-year +1.30% -8.11% -2.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,401 1,277 1,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 91.03% 83.52% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 765 1,191
10th Percentile £261 £315 £300
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £625
90th Percentile £625 £660 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 50 35
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.16 £12.55 £16.13
Median hourly rate £22.14 £15.09 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.77% -24.58% +6.10%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.50 £25.27
90th Percentile £81.25 £39.75 £44.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.19
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.92% +49.35%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Security Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in Yorkshire

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in Yorkshire

Security Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Security Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
West Yorkshire +2 10 £450 -23.40% 3
Security Monitoring
England

Security Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (81.82%) Azure
3 7 (63.64%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (18.18%) AWS KMS
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) Network Security
3 2 (18.18%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (18.18%) SSL
3 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
3 2 (18.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) NetBackup Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Veritas Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
1 7 (63.64%) RBAC
2 6 (54.55%) SIEM
3 5 (45.45%) Business Continuity
3 5 (45.45%) Business Strategy
3 5 (45.45%) Data Protection
3 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (45.45%) Task Automation
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (18.18%) Database Security
5 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Network Load Balancing
5 2 (18.18%) Release Management
5 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
5 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) Bash
2 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) SOC 2
2 2 (18.18%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) HIPAA
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
2 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) NetBackup
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Kustomize
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 2 (18.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Google
2 5 (45.45%) CyberArk
2 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 5 (45.45%) Veritas
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 4 (36.36%) Splunk
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco
4 2 (18.18%) Citrix
4 2 (18.18%) McAfee
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft