Security Operations Contracts in the North of England

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 120 202
Rank change year-on-year -49 +82 -39
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 16 86 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 1.58% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.75% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 60 44
10th Percentile £488 £400 £483
25th Percentile £557 £450 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £588 £641
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -8.35% +39.80%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £763
90th Percentile £948 £813 -
England median daily rate £590 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -3.67% +2.08% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in the North of England

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in the North of England

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in the North of England

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
North West -41 9 £625 +6.38% 13
Yorkshire +1 7 £625 +9.65% 11
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Internet
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) ServiceNow Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) SOC Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Security Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (25.00%) CSS
1 4 (25.00%) HTML
2 3 (18.75%) LDAP
3 2 (12.50%) SAML
4 1 (6.25%) .NET
4 1 (6.25%) Ajax
4 1 (6.25%) J2EE
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) SOAP
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
4 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) CMDB
2 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (18.75%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (12.50%) Operational Technology
4 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (6.25%) Insider Threat
5 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) DevOps
1 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Change Management
2 6 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 5 (31.25%) Compliance Management
3 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
3 5 (31.25%) Incident Management
3 5 (31.25%) Information Security
3 5 (31.25%) Knowledge Management
3 5 (31.25%) Problem Management
3 5 (31.25%) Risk Management
3 5 (31.25%) SIEM
4 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (25.00%) ITSM
4 4 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
4 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
5 3 (18.75%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) CISSP
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CEH
3 1 (6.25%) CISM
3 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) GIAC
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
2 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (18.75%) NIST
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (12.50%) GRC
3 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) ServiceNow
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Atlassian
4 1 (6.25%) Carbon Black
4 1 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (6.25%) Intel
4 1 (6.25%) Proofpoint
4 1 (6.25%) Qualys
4 1 (6.25%) Rapid7
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Symantec
4 1 (6.25%) Zscaler