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Security Analyst

Hiring Organisation
VIQU IT
Location
Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 400 - 500 Daily
Analyst: Strong experience with Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM) and Microsoft Defender suite (Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Cloud, etc.). Proven track record in security monitoring, incident response, and alert troubleshooting . Working knowledge of SOAR platforms (preferably within Sentinel or similar). Understanding of threat detection, log analysis … Sentinel and Microsoft Defender . Perform detailed security event analysis and correlation, escalating incidents where necessary. Develop and optimise SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response) playbooks to enhance incident response and efficiency. Collaborate with wider IT and security teams to improve threat detection, incident handling

Security Analyst

Hiring Organisation
VIQU IT
Location
Milton Keynes, Loughton, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £500/day
Analyst: Strong experience with Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM) and Microsoft Defender suite (Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Cloud, etc.). Proven track record in security monitoring, incident response, and alert troubleshooting . Working knowledge of SOAR platforms (preferably within Sentinel or similar). Understanding of threat detection, log analysis … Sentinel and Microsoft Defender . Perform detailed security event analysis and correlation, escalating incidents where necessary. Develop and optimise SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response) playbooks to enhance incident response and efficiency. Collaborate with wider IT and security teams to improve threat detection, incident handling

SOC Analyst Mid-Senior level

Hiring Organisation
Guidant Global
Location
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £45 to £66 per hour ; (Umbrella)
Threat Detection technologies across the UK Network Perimeter. The SOC Analyst reports to the SOC Manager and conducts a range of analyses, assisting the incident response team with investigations that need to be escalated to an embedded staff member. The SOC Analyst key responsibilities are: Effective Tier … Conduct proactive threat hunting in collaboration with the CTI function Conduct HR and InfoSec related investigations Ensure the timely triage and remediation of any incident or request tickets raised to the SOC Participate in the activity of adding/removing URLs from the AcceptList and BlockList Attend routine security

Senior Security Engineer - SIEM, KQL

Hiring Organisation
Harvey Nash
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £600 per day
Case Development: Develop and refine detection rules based on threat intelligence and attack patterns Continuously improve detection efficacy and reduce false positives Security Monitoring & Incident Response: Monitor systems for anomalies and malicious activity Contribute to threat hunting and incident response playbooks Provide expert guidance on securing

Senior Security Engineer - SIEM, KQL

Hiring Organisation
Harvey Nash
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £600 per day
Case Development: Develop and refine detection rules based on threat intelligence and attack patterns Continuously improve detection efficacy and reduce false positives Security Monitoring & Incident Response: Monitor systems for anomalies and malicious activity Contribute to threat hunting and incident response playbooks Provide expert guidance on securing

OT SOC Analyst - Operational Technology

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Sussex, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 600 - 800 Daily
Operational Technology) Outside IR35 Duration: 6 9 months Location: Crawley, Hybrid 2 days per week on site Overview of project: The role of an Incident Response (CSIRT)/Security Operations Centre (SOC) Level 3 Analyst is to respond to high-severity cyber security incidents and/or escalated … policies, standards and procedures aligned with best practice. Logs: Ensure all logs feed into the SIEM and build use cases to detect anomalous activity. Incident Response: Lead high-severity incidents, improve playbooks and manage remediation, communication and reporting. SOAR: Develop automated workflows to streamline detection, enrichment and response.

OT SOC Analyst - Operational Technology

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
West Sussex, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £800/day None
Operational Technology) Outside IR35 Duration: 6 – 9 months Location: Crawley, Hybrid 2 days per week on site Overview of project: The role of an Incident Response (CSIRT)/Security Operations Centre (SOC) Level 3 Analyst is to respond to high-severity cyber security incidents and/or escalated … policies, standards and procedures aligned with best practice. Logs: Ensure all logs feed into the SIEM and build use cases to detect anomalous activity. Incident Response: Lead high-severity incidents, improve playbooks and manage remediation, communication and reporting. SOAR: Develop automated workflows to streamline detection, enrichment and response.

SIEM Application Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £500/day £400 - £500 p/d Inside IR35
maintaining our security information and event management (SIEM) system. Your focus will be on leveraging Elasticsearch and related technologies to enhance threat detection, incident response, and overall security posture. - 3 days on site in Birmingham (Please ensure you are local before applying) - £400 - £500 p/d depending … manage the performance of the SIEM infrastructure. Contribute to security engineering projects, transitions, and transformations. Work closely with security operations and associated security incident response systems Stay informed about emerging threats and security best practices. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role

IT Security Officer

Hiring Organisation
Square One Resources
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£450 - £500/day
services, define strategic vision for improvement and reliability. Service Design and Implementation: Collaborate with architects and engineers to design secure services and oversee deployments. Incident Management: Coordinate incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective actions. Infrastructure Management: Ensure patching, evergreening, backups, and compliance for on-prem

SOC Analyst

Hiring Organisation
Certain Advantage
Location
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£66.00 per hour, Inc benefits
working with the best standard technologies.The SOC Analyst reports to the SOC Manager. The SOC Analyst conducts a range of analysis and assists the incident response team with investigations that need to be escalated to an embedded member of staff. The SOC Analyst key responsibilities are: Effective Tier … threat hunting in collaboration with the CTI function Assist IR in HR and InfoSec related investigations Ensure the timely triage and remediation of any incident or request tickets raised to the SOC Participate in the activity of adding/removing URLs from the AcceptList and BlockList Attend routine security

SOC Threat Detection Analyst

Hiring Organisation
Certain Advantage
Location
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£45 - £85/hour Overtime Rate of time and a quarter
with the best standard technologies. The SOC Analyst reports to the SOC Manager. The SOC Analyst conducts a range of analysis and assists the incident response team with investigations that need to be escalated to an embedded member of staff. The SOC Analyst key responsibilities are: Effective Tier … threat hunting in collaboration with the CTI function Assist IR in HR and InfoSec related investigations Ensure the timely triage and remediation of any incident or request tickets raised to the SOC Participate in the activity of adding/removing URLs from the AcceptList and BlockList Attend routine security

SOC Practitioner Analyst

Hiring Organisation
SOLOS Consultants Ltd
Location
Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 364 - 467 Daily
Security Alerts on the various monitoring tools to identify potential Security Incidents. Escalate suspected Security Incidents to the Lead Analysts. Assist Lead Analysts and Incident Response team with investigation and containment. Maintain knowledge of technology and cyber threats by reading Threat Intel, reports, attending Threat Intel briefings

Level 1 SOC Analyst

Hiring Organisation
Rise Technical Recruitment
Location
Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 400 - 460 Daily
Security Alerts on the various monitoring tools to identify potential Security Incidents. Escalate suspected Security Incidents to the Lead Analysts. Assist Lead Analysts and Incident Response team with investigation and containment. Maintain knowledge of technology and cyber threats by reading Threat Intel, reports, attending Threat Intel briefings

Level 1 SOC Analyst

Hiring Organisation
Rise Technical Recruitment Limited
Location
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£400 - £460 per day
Security Alerts on the various monitoring tools to identify potential Security Incidents. Escalate suspected Security Incidents to the Lead Analysts. Assist Lead Analysts and Incident Response team with investigation and containment. Maintain knowledge of technology and cyber threats by reading Threat Intel, reports, attending Threat Intel briefings

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer (GCVE Specialist)

Hiring Organisation
International Business Solutions Consulting Limited
Location
South West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
other engineers. Monitoring and Operational Excellence: Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Stackdriver) to ensure high availability and proactive incident response for all hybrid infrastructure. Required Skills & Qualifications Experience: 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering role. GCVE Expertise

AWS Security Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Apsley Recruitment Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £500 to £550 per day
Analyzer) to reduce exposure and prevent repeat issues. Produce clear remediation guidance, runbooks, and reporting dashboards for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Support incident response and post-remediation validation where high-risk findings are exploited or trending. kills & Experience AWS/Cloud Security Deep, hands

Splunk Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Flint UK Technology Services
Location
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
dashboarding, along with experience migrating workloads to Elasticsearch. In addition to migration duties, the candidate will maintain and enhance existing Splunk infrastructure, provide incident support, manage upgrades, and ensure observability platforms remain secure and performant. This role demands a technically strong individual with excellent stakeholder communication and problem-solving … configure alerting and monitoring using Kibana, Elasticsearch Watcher, or third-party tools. Ensure migration plans include validation, rollback procedures, and knowledge transfer. Platform Operations & Incident Response: Maintain Splunk infrastructure in both Production and Non-Production environments. Support Splunk SRE and Application teams in incident investigation and resolution.

Microsoft Defender Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550 per day
Manage and optimise Microsoft Defender across Endpoint, Identity, Cloud Apps, Office 365, and Cloud Security Posture Management. Monitor alerts and conduct threat investigations. Support incident response with containment and remediation. Conduct proactive threat hunting. Platform administration and governance Configure policy baselines and protection profiles. Maintain governance and compliance … Security teams. Provide security insights to projects. Produce reporting for stakeholders. Identify automation and workflow enhancements. Essential Skills Strong experience with Microsoft Defender platforms. Incident investigation skills across endpoint, identity, and cloud. Understanding of Microsoft 365, Azure, and Zero Trust. Skilled in ASR rules, AV baselines, and KQL analytics.

SRE Team - IKP

Hiring Organisation
Square One Resources
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£490/day
requirements. Job Responsibilities/Objectives Maintain high availability and resilience of IKP services across multi-cloud and on-prem environments. Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response for IKP components. Develop automation for IKP deployment, scaling, and lifecycle management. Integrate IKP processes into CI/CD pipelines for secure … Familiarity with OpenShift, Kubernetes, and container security best practices. Knowledge of cryptographic principles, PKI, and encryption standards. Proficiency in monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana) and incident management frameworks. Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or cloud security certifications preferred. If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your

Security Analyst

Hiring Organisation
VIQU IT Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£350 - £450 per day
also translated into actionable insights and long-term improvements across the business. Skills required from the Security Analyst: Proven experience in a Security Analyst , Incident Response , or SOC environment (2nd line or similar). Strong hands-on experience in threat investigation, log analysis, and remediation . Good understanding … management and relevant stakeholders. Advise on security best practices and improvement initiatives across systems, networks, and processes. Contribute to ongoing development of detection, response, and monitoring capabilities. Support reviews and recommendations around security toolsets, processes, and automation opportunities. The Security Analyst can work fully remote for the duration

Security (SIEM, Elastic) Architect - SC Cleared

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Government and Defence
Location
Warwick, Warwickshire, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £800 per day + Flexible
dashboards for threat detection. Map detection rules to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, STRIDE, and NIST CSF. Collaborate with SOC teams to refine incident response workflows. Governance & Compliance Align SIEM architecture with Secure by Design and Zero Trust principles. Support compliance with ISO 27001, PCI DSS, etc Document

SIEM Application Engineer - ElasticSearch

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £550 per day
performance of the SIEM infrastructure to maintain optimal functionality. Security Engineering:Contribute to various security engineering projects and work closely with security operations and incident response systems. Stay updated on emerging threats and best practises in the cybersecurity landscape. Skills You'll Need to Succeed: Essential:- Strong experience

Senior Information Security Analyst

Hiring Organisation
4Recruitment Services
Location
Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 28 Hourly
successful candidate will play a key role in assessing risks, reviewing supplier and project security documentation, responding to security questionnaires and tenders, supporting incident investigations, and helping to maintain AFC s security posture and compliance with relevant standards (Cyber Essentials Plus, ISO 27001, DSPT, GDPR, NCSC). This … interview) Minimum 5 years hands-on experience in Information Security Experience conducting security risk assessments Supplier/third-party security assurance Strong technical grounding Incident response collaboration Knowledge of compliance frameworks Strong written communication skills Stakeholder engagement Availability & flexibility Right to work in the UK To find

Senior Information Security Analyst

Hiring Organisation
4 RECRUITMENT SERVICES LTD
Location
Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£28 per hour
successful candidate will play a key role in assessing risks, reviewing supplier and project security documentation, responding to security questionnaires and tenders, supporting incident investigations, and helping to maintain AFC's security posture and compliance with relevant standards (Cyber Essentials Plus, ISO 27001, DSPT, GDPR, NCSC). This … interview) Minimum 5 years' hands-on experience in Information Security Experience conducting security risk assessments Supplier/third-party security assurance Strong technical grounding Incident response collaboration Knowledge of compliance frameworks Strong written communication skills Stakeholder engagement Availability & flexibility Right to work in the UK To find

Senior Information Security Analyst

Hiring Organisation
4Recruitment Services
Location
Watford, Holywell, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£28.00/hour
successful candidate will play a key role in assessing risks, reviewing supplier and project security documentation, responding to security questionnaires and tenders, supporting incident investigations, and helping to maintain AFC’s security posture and compliance with relevant standards (Cyber Essentials Plus, ISO 27001, DSPT, GDPR, NCSC). This … interview) Minimum 5 years’ hands-on experience in Information Security Experience conducting security risk assessments Supplier/third-party security assurance Strong technical grounding Incident response collaboration Knowledge of compliance frameworks Strong written communication skills Stakeholder engagement Availability & flexibility Right to work in the UK To find