Security Operations Contracts in Yorkshire

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 94 115
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 +24
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 3 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.29% 0.36% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.41% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 12
10th Percentile - £598 £400
25th Percentile - £657 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £784 £548
Median % change year-on-year - +43.15% -0.45%
75th Percentile - £932 £703
90th Percentile - £1,003 £795
England median daily rate £575 £600 £622
% change year-on-year -4.17% -3.54% +3.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Security Operations 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 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Yorkshire

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in Yorkshire

Security Operations
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 Operations within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 2
West Yorkshire - 1 - - 9
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Aviation
2 2 (66.67%) Fire and Rescue
2 2 (66.67%) Police
2 2 (66.67%) Swedish Language
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Head of Information
2 1 (33.33%) Head of Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Head of Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Robotics
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) SOAR
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) FortiGate
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Ribbon
1 2 (66.67%) Tenable