Security Monitoring Contracts

Security Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Security Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Monitoring over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 516 668
Rank change year-on-year +69 +152 -90
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 154 197 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.33% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.37% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 143 131
10th Percentile £425 £425 £456
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £669 £638
90th Percentile £735 £748 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £65.18 £42.54 -
25th Percentile £67.31 £65.85 -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £81.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 £90.44 -
90th Percentile £77.33 £98.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.75 £56.50 -
% change year-on-year +28.76% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security Monitoring 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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Monitoring in the UK

Security Monitoring
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +78 130 £500 -16.67% 51
UK excluding London +54 98 £513 -6.82% 30
London +97 48 £563 -6.25% 25
Work from Home +86 46 £500 -16.67% 30
South West +41 44 £495 -18.18% 8
South East +7 19 £500 -4.76% 11
Scotland +38 17 £525 +16.67% 4
West Midlands +25 11 £550 -6.38% 1
Midlands +25 11 £550 -6.38% 2
East of England +12 3 £575 -19.30% 2
North West +8 3 £676 +15.56% 2
North of England -3 3 £676 +17.57% 3
Wales +11 1 £450 +125.00%

Security Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 37 (24.03%) Confluence
2 35 (22.73%) SharePoint
3 34 (22.08%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.65%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.65%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 57 (37.01%) Azure
2 35 (22.73%) Azure Stack
3 16 (10.39%) AWS
4 14 (9.09%) GCP
5 11 (7.14%) Google Compute Engine
5 11 (7.14%) Vertex AI
6 8 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (3.25%) SaaS
8 4 (2.60%) Serverless
9 3 (1.95%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (1.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.95%) IaaS
9 3 (1.95%) PaaS
10 2 (1.30%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.30%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.30%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 59 (38.31%) Firewall
2 34 (22.08%) BGP
3 18 (11.69%) WAN
4 16 (10.39%) DNS
5 14 (9.09%) Network Security
6 13 (8.44%) TCP/IP
7 10 (6.49%) SD-WAN
8 7 (4.55%) DHCP
9 6 (3.90%) Unified Communications
10 4 (2.60%) FTP
10 4 (2.60%) HTTP
10 4 (2.60%) ICMP
10 4 (2.60%) Internet
10 4 (2.60%) POP3
10 4 (2.60%) SMTP
10 4 (2.60%) SSH
11 3 (1.95%) VPN
12 2 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (1.30%) LAN
13 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.79%) BigQuery
2 5 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.30%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (24.03%) JIRA
2 3 (1.95%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.30%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.30%) Git
3 2 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.65%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) NUnit
4 1 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 59 (38.31%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.94%) Public Sector
3 17 (11.04%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (5.84%) Finance
5 6 (3.90%) Banking
6 4 (2.60%) Automotive
7 3 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.95%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (20.78%) Analyst
2 21 (13.64%) Architect
3 17 (11.04%) Microsoft Engineer
4 15 (9.74%) Security Analyst
4 15 (9.74%) Senior
5 14 (9.09%) Security Engineer
6 13 (8.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.49%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 10 (6.49%) Senior Analyst
7 10 (6.49%) WAN Engineer
8 9 (5.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 9 (5.84%) Senior Security Analyst
9 7 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (4.55%) GCP Architect
10 6 (3.90%) GCP Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Lead
10 6 (3.90%) Network Architect
10 6 (3.90%) Security Architect
10 6 (3.90%) SOC Analyst
11 5 (3.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (1.95%) .NET
3 2 (1.30%) Web Services
4 1 (0.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 36 (23.38%) Private Cloud
2 18 (11.69%) Management Information System
3 11 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 10 (6.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (3.25%) Operational Technology
5 5 (3.25%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (2.60%) IoT
6 4 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.95%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.95%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.30%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.30%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.65%) CSOC
9 1 (0.65%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (42.86%) Windows
2 26 (16.88%) Linux
3 19 (12.34%) Unix
4 12 (7.79%) Windows Server
5 9 (5.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (35.06%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (26.62%) SIEM
3 37 (24.03%) ITIL
4 36 (23.38%) Capacity Management
4 36 (23.38%) Network Management
4 36 (23.38%) Service Management
5 35 (22.73%) Information Security
6 30 (19.48%) ITSM
7 27 (17.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (16.23%) Vulnerability Management
9 24 (15.58%) Cloud Security
10 20 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (12.99%) Identity Access Management
11 19 (12.34%) Incident Response
12 18 (11.69%) Security Operations
13 17 (11.04%) Penetration Testing
14 16 (10.39%) DevOps
15 15 (9.74%) Computer Science
15 15 (9.74%) Incident Management
15 15 (9.74%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.39%) Python
2 13 (8.44%) Bash
3 11 (7.14%) C#
4 9 (5.84%) Java
5 4 (2.60%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.30%) PHP
6 2 (1.30%) Ruby
7 1 (0.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (46.75%) Security Cleared
2 42 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 25 (16.23%) Degree
4 23 (14.94%) SC Cleared
5 15 (9.74%) CISSP
6 12 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (7.14%) CISM
8 8 (5.19%) CISA
9 5 (3.25%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.25%) GIAC
10 4 (2.60%) CGEIT
10 4 (2.60%) CRISC
10 4 (2.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 3 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.95%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.95%) MBA
12 2 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.30%) GCIA
12 2 (1.30%) GCIH
13 1 (0.65%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (22.08%) Government Security Classifications
2 20 (12.99%) NIST
3 18 (11.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (6.49%) ISO 9000
5 9 (5.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (2.60%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.95%) NCSC
8 2 (1.30%) COBIT
8 2 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.65%) GDPR
9 1 (0.65%) GLBA
9 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.65%) ISAE 3402
9 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.65%) QA
9 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (4.55%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.60%) Docker
3 4 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.30%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.30%) XenApp
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (16.88%) SCOM
2 16 (10.39%) Terraform
3 9 (5.84%) SCCM
4 7 (4.55%) QRadar
4 7 (4.55%) vCenter Server
5 6 (3.90%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.90%) Nessus
6 5 (3.25%) Kibana
7 4 (2.60%) logstash
8 3 (1.95%) Ansible
8 3 (1.95%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (1.30%) CSIRT
9 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.30%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (1.30%) RSA Archer
9 2 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.65%) CASB
10 1 (0.65%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 61 (39.61%) Microsoft
2 36 (23.38%) Atlassian
3 19 (12.34%) Cisco
4 11 (7.14%) VMware
5 8 (5.19%) Splunk
6 7 (4.55%) Veeam
7 5 (3.25%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (2.60%) ArcSight
8 4 (2.60%) Fujitsu
9 3 (1.95%) Databricks
9 3 (1.95%) F5
9 3 (1.95%) Oracle
9 3 (1.95%) Qualys
10 2 (1.30%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.30%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.30%) Citrix
10 2 (1.30%) Netskope
10 2 (1.30%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.30%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.65%) Salesforce