Security Operations Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Security Operations (SecOps)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Security Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 55 68
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 +23
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 4 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.85% 1.39% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.60% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £801 £568 -
25th Percentile £803 £575 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £813 £650 £425
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +52.94% -37.04%
75th Percentile £828 £700 £438
90th Percentile £834 £768 £478
South West median daily rate £531 £750 £625
% change year-on-year -29.17% +20.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 418 500 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.32% 86.96% 88.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 342 544
10th Percentile £323 £356 £352
25th Percentile £510 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £667 £655 £638
90th Percentile £725 £736 £725
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 16
10th Percentile £12.50 - £14.36
25th Percentile £17.90 - £35.64
Median hourly rate £23.25 £12.79 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.78% -74.42% -18.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £65.75
90th Percentile - £22.23 £73.25
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Operations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Security Operations job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Security Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Security Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Salisbury - 2 - -
Swindon - 2 £813 -
Security Operations
South West

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Information
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Security
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Information Services
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) RBAC
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CISM
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CISA
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) COBIT
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat