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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 55 70
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 +10
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 3 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.69% 1.75% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 2.08% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 9
10th Percentile £801 - -
25th Percentile £803 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £813 £613 £425
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% +44.12% -35.85%
75th Percentile £828 £688 £438
90th Percentile £834 £691 £578
South West median daily rate £513 £688 £625
% change year-on-year -25.45% +10.00% +28.87%

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 398 529 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 91.71% 84.37% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 379 580
10th Percentile £308 £361 £356
25th Percentile £458 £463 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £693 £738 £714
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 13
10th Percentile £18.80 - £40.85
25th Percentile £18.87 - £44.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £12.79 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.92% -78.68% -8.81%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £64.50
90th Percentile £25.83 - £69.50
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.57
% change year-on-year -62.74% +4.53% +11.05%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations 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 18 September 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
Swindon - 2 £813 -
Salisbury - 1 - -
Security Operations
South West

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Head of Information
1 2 (66.67%) Head of Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Head of Security
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Head of Information Services
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
1 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (66.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISM
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) CISA
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) COBIT
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
3 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat