Security Operations Contracts in England

Security Operations (SecOps)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 277 376
Rank change year-on-year +60 +99 +32
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 394 457 484
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.08% 0.95% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.06% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 336 359
10th Percentile £425 £400 £450
25th Percentile £484 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% +14.34%
75th Percentile £694 £725 £725
90th Percentile £775 £813 £795
UK median daily rate £590 £606 £600
% change year-on-year -2.64% +1.00% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile - £44.86 £24.26
25th Percentile - £63.11 £28.76
Median hourly rate £11.25 £84.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -86.69% +125.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile - £95.31 £60.75
90th Percentile - £98.13 £73.95
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
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,359 43,239 64,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.26% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,563 30,348 45,861
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,244 1,528 1,759
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.02 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% +47.08% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 21 May 2024. 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
London +8 134 £650 +4.00% 78
South West +88 126 £570 -6.94% 14
South East +36 50 £533 -14.72% 43
Midlands +14 38 £634 -0.12% 21
West Midlands +15 36 £635 -2.31% 13
East of England +7 18 £650 +7.22% 18
North of England -33 15 £625 +3.14% 40
North West -29 9 £625 +3.14% 15
Yorkshire +12 6 £784 +20.58% 25
East Midlands +11 2 £521 -14.03% 8
Security Operations
UK

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (3.81%) CMS
2 2 (0.51%) Confluence
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.25%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 55 (13.96%) Azure
2 25 (6.35%) AWS
3 17 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (4.06%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (2.03%) Power Platform
6 7 (1.78%) Entra ID
6 7 (1.78%) IaaS
7 6 (1.52%) SaaS
8 5 (1.27%) GCP
8 5 (1.27%) PaaS
9 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.76%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.51%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.51%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.51%) GitHub
12 1 (0.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 1 (0.25%) AWS KMS
12 1 (0.25%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 44 (11.17%) Network Security
2 38 (9.64%) Firewall
3 22 (5.58%) Intrusion Detection
4 11 (2.79%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.78%) DNS
6 5 (1.27%) Internet
6 5 (1.27%) WAN
7 4 (1.02%) LAN
8 3 (0.76%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (0.76%) DHCP
8 3 (0.76%) VPN
8 3 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.51%) Broadband
9 2 (0.51%) HTTP
9 2 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.51%) VoIP
9 2 (0.51%) Wireless
10 1 (0.25%) FTP
10 1 (0.25%) Intranet
10 1 (0.25%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.30%) Big Data
2 8 (2.03%) Power BI
3 6 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Git
1 4 (1.02%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.76%) Burp Suite
2 3 (0.76%) Metasploit
2 3 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.51%) GitLab
3 2 (0.51%) JIRA
General
1 64 (16.24%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (12.94%) Finance
4 27 (6.85%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.09%) Banking
6 13 (3.30%) Manufacturing
7 11 (2.79%) Military
8 10 (2.54%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.78%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.52%) Legal
11 5 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.27%) Law
12 3 (0.76%) Games
12 3 (0.76%) Marketing
13 2 (0.51%) Electronics
13 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.25%) Advertising
14 1 (0.25%) Back Office
14 1 (0.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 155 (39.34%) Analyst
2 94 (23.86%) SOC Analyst
3 35 (8.88%) Architect
4 34 (8.63%) Senior
5 33 (8.38%) Security Analyst
5 33 (8.38%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 32 (8.12%) Lead
7 29 (7.36%) Security Engineer
8 27 (6.85%) SOC Engineer
9 20 (5.08%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 20 (5.08%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
10 19 (4.82%) Security Specialist
11 17 (4.31%) Security Architect
12 16 (4.06%) Security Manager
13 15 (3.81%) SOC Manager
14 14 (3.55%) Operations Analyst
14 14 (3.55%) Security Operations Analyst
14 14 (3.55%) Senior Analyst
15 11 (2.79%) Consultant
15 11 (2.79%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.30%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (1.52%) AngularJS
2 6 (1.52%) CSS
2 6 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (1.52%) XML
3 5 (1.27%) HTML
3 5 (1.27%) SOAP
4 4 (1.02%) LDAP
5 3 (0.76%) JSON
5 3 (0.76%) SAML
5 3 (0.76%) Web Services
5 3 (0.76%) YAML
6 2 (0.51%) Ajax
6 2 (0.51%) PySpark
7 1 (0.25%) EDI
7 1 (0.25%) JDBC
7 1 (0.25%) OAuth
7 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.25%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 140 (35.53%) Security Operations Centre
2 70 (17.77%) Cyber Threat
3 67 (17.01%) Management Information System
4 49 (12.44%) CSOC
5 40 (10.15%) Cyber Defence
6 33 (8.38%) Security Posture
7 21 (5.33%) Cyberattack
8 16 (4.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 15 (3.81%) Distributed Applications
10 12 (3.05%) Onboarding
10 12 (3.05%) Operational Technology
11 10 (2.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 8 (2.03%) CESG
12 8 (2.03%) CMDB
13 5 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
13 5 (1.27%) Data Centre
14 4 (1.02%) Product Ownership
15 3 (0.76%) Cloud Native
15 3 (0.76%) Public Cloud
15 3 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 72 (18.27%) Windows
2 59 (14.97%) Linux
3 15 (3.81%) Unix
4 11 (2.79%) Android
4 11 (2.79%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.03%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.76%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.51%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (59.64%) Cybersecurity
2 180 (45.69%) SIEM
3 164 (41.62%) Incident Response
4 121 (30.71%) Information Security
5 91 (23.10%) Threat Intelligence
6 75 (19.04%) Vulnerability Management
7 68 (17.26%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 63 (15.99%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 58 (14.72%) Use Case
10 47 (11.93%) Analytics
11 46 (11.68%) SOAR
12 40 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
14 36 (9.14%) Data Security
14 36 (9.14%) Incident Management
14 36 (9.14%) Security Architecture
15 34 (8.63%) Threat Detection
16 33 (8.38%) Cyber Intelligence
16 33 (8.38%) Data Loss Prevention
17 32 (8.12%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 29 (7.36%) PowerShell
2 20 (5.08%) Python
3 10 (2.54%) JavaScript
3 10 (2.54%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (1.52%) Bash
5 4 (1.02%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (0.76%) Java
6 3 (0.76%) Perl
6 3 (0.76%) SQL
7 2 (0.51%) C
7 2 (0.51%) C++
7 2 (0.51%) Go
7 2 (0.51%) Ruby
7 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 187 (47.46%) Security Cleared
2 119 (30.20%) DV Cleared
3 62 (15.74%) SC Cleared
4 52 (13.20%) CISSP
5 48 (12.18%) Degree
6 29 (7.36%) CISM
7 25 (6.35%) SANS
8 20 (5.08%) CEH
9 11 (2.79%) CompTIA Security+
9 11 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (2.79%) GIAC
10 9 (2.28%) CISA
11 8 (2.03%) CISMP
11 8 (2.03%) ISACA
11 8 (2.03%) SSCP
12 6 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.02%) GCIA
13 4 (1.02%) GCIH
13 4 (1.02%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (12.44%) NIST
2 41 (10.41%) GDPR
3 30 (7.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (5.08%) PCI DSS
5 18 (4.57%) NCSC
6 17 (4.31%) NIST 800
7 13 (3.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (3.05%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.27%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.27%) GRC
10 4 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.02%) QA
10 4 (1.02%) SLA
11 2 (0.51%) COBIT
11 2 (0.51%) RMADS
12 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 18 (4.57%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.76%) Docker
4 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.51%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 12 (3.05%) Terraform
2 9 (2.28%) Nessus
3 8 (2.03%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.52%) CSIRT
4 6 (1.52%) Kibana
4 6 (1.52%) logstash
4 6 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 4 (1.02%) CASB
6 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.02%) QRadar
6 4 (1.02%) SCCM
7 3 (0.76%) Ansible
8 2 (0.51%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.51%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.51%) WSUS
9 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.25%) Grafana
9 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 99 (25.13%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.64%) Splunk
3 32 (8.12%) LogRhythm
4 22 (5.58%) Qualys
5 19 (4.82%) Varonis
6 17 (4.31%) Darktrace
7 16 (4.06%) FireEye
7 16 (4.06%) Forcepoint
8 14 (3.55%) ServiceNow
9 13 (3.30%) Red Hat
10 11 (2.79%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (2.54%) Cisco
12 7 (1.78%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.78%) Virgin Media
13 4 (1.02%) Netskope
13 4 (1.02%) Rapid7
14 3 (0.76%) ArcSight
14 3 (0.76%) ForeScout
14 3 (0.76%) Sage
14 3 (0.76%) Zscaler