Security Operations Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Operations (SecOps)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 211 283
Rank change year-on-year +31 +72 +32
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 250 238 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 1.05% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.18% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 164 193
10th Percentile £425 £400 £377
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £603 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% +4.87% +14.71%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £688
90th Percentile £700 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £590 £603 £588
% change year-on-year -2.16% +2.64% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £76.85 -
25th Percentile - £82.25 £40.98
Median hourly rate £11.25 £92.50 £41.95
Median % change year-on-year -87.84% +120.50% +249.58%
75th Percentile £35.00 £96.88 £42.93
90th Percentile £49.25 £98.75 -
UK median hourly rate £11.25 £84.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -86.69% +125.33% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in the UK excluding London

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in the UK excluding London

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in the UK excluding London

Security Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Operations in the UK excluding London

Security Operations
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Operations in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Operations in the UK excluding London

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
South West +69 104 £570 -5.00% 15
South East +40 55 £517 -17.36% 25
Midlands +3 40 £635 -1.85% 15
West Midlands +13 39 £640 -1.54% 10
Scotland +48 18 £500 +9.29% 9
East of England +1 17 £650 +140.74% 12
North of England -49 16 £625 +6.38% 25
North West -41 9 £625 +6.38% 13
Yorkshire +1 7 £625 +9.65% 11
East Midlands -1 1 £567 -6.44% 5
Security Operations
UK

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (5.60%) CMS
2 2 (0.80%) Apache
2 2 (0.80%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.80%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 29 (11.60%) Azure
2 12 (4.80%) Azure Sentinel
3 10 (4.00%) AWS
4 8 (3.20%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (1.20%) GCP
7 2 (0.80%) GitHub
8 1 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.40%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 37 (14.80%) Network Security
2 26 (10.40%) Firewall
3 21 (8.40%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (2.40%) SSL
5 4 (1.60%) DNS
5 4 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.20%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.80%) Broadband
7 2 (0.80%) FTP
7 2 (0.80%) HTTP
7 2 (0.80%) Internet
7 2 (0.80%) LAN
7 2 (0.80%) SMTP
7 2 (0.80%) WAN
7 2 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.80%) Big Data
2 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
1 2 (0.80%) GitLab
1 2 (0.80%) JIRA
1 2 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.40%) Git
General
1 46 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 30 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (4.40%) Manufacturing
5 10 (4.00%) Military
5 10 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.40%) Finance
6 6 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.60%) Banking
8 3 (1.20%) Games
9 1 (0.40%) Electronics
9 1 (0.40%) Legal
9 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 108 (43.20%) Analyst
2 69 (27.60%) SOC Analyst
3 29 (11.60%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 25 (10.00%) Senior
5 24 (9.60%) Lead
5 24 (9.60%) Security Specialist
6 18 (7.20%) Security Analyst
7 17 (6.80%) Cyber Threat Analyst
7 17 (6.80%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
8 16 (6.40%) SOC Engineer
9 12 (4.80%) Architect
9 12 (4.80%) Senior Analyst
9 12 (4.80%) SOC Manager
10 10 (4.00%) IT Security Specialist
10 10 (4.00%) Security Operations Specialist
11 9 (3.60%) Consultant
11 9 (3.60%) Lead Architect
11 9 (3.60%) Security Engineer
12 8 (3.20%) Operations Analyst
12 8 (3.20%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.80%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (2.00%) LDAP
3 4 (1.60%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.60%) CSS
3 4 (1.60%) HTML
4 3 (1.20%) SOAP
4 3 (1.20%) XML
5 2 (0.80%) .NET
5 2 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.80%) SAML
6 1 (0.40%) Ajax
6 1 (0.40%) J2EE
6 1 (0.40%) JSON
6 1 (0.40%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.40%) REST
6 1 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 105 (42.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 52 (20.80%) Management Information System
3 46 (18.40%) Cyber Threat
4 41 (16.40%) CSOC
5 36 (14.40%) Cyber Defence
6 19 (7.60%) Distributed Applications
7 12 (4.80%) Cyberattack
7 12 (4.80%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.80%) CESG
8 7 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.80%) Operational Technology
9 6 (2.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (2.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (2.00%) CMDB
10 5 (2.00%) PKI
11 2 (0.80%) CCTV
11 2 (0.80%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.80%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 53 (21.20%) Windows
2 46 (18.40%) Linux
3 15 (6.00%) Android
3 15 (6.00%) Apple iOS
3 15 (6.00%) Unix
4 8 (3.20%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.80%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (67.20%) Cybersecurity
2 129 (51.60%) SIEM
3 112 (44.80%) Incident Response
4 69 (27.60%) Information Security
5 61 (24.40%) Threat Intelligence
6 48 (19.20%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 48 (19.20%) Vulnerability Management
7 46 (18.40%) Analytics
8 42 (16.80%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 39 (15.60%) Use Case
10 36 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (12.80%) Agile
12 30 (12.00%) SOAR
13 28 (11.20%) OSINT
13 28 (11.20%) Security Architecture
14 27 (10.80%) Actionable Insight
14 27 (10.80%) Cyber Intelligence
15 26 (10.40%) ITIL
16 25 (10.00%) Data Security
17 24 (9.60%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (3.20%) Python
3 7 (2.80%) JavaScript
3 7 (2.80%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (0.80%) Bash
4 2 (0.80%) Go
4 2 (0.80%) Java
4 2 (0.80%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (0.40%) C
5 1 (0.40%) C#
5 1 (0.40%) C++
5 1 (0.40%) Perl
5 1 (0.40%) Ruby
5 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 147 (58.80%) Security Cleared
2 98 (39.20%) DV Cleared
3 43 (17.20%) Degree
4 41 (16.40%) SC Cleared
5 24 (9.60%) SANS
6 23 (9.20%) CISSP
7 16 (6.40%) CISM
8 11 (4.40%) CEH
8 11 (4.40%) CompTIA Security+
8 11 (4.40%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.80%) CISA
10 7 (2.80%) CISMP
10 7 (2.80%) ISACA
10 7 (2.80%) MCSE
10 7 (2.80%) SSCP
11 5 (2.00%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.80%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.00%) NIST
2 21 (8.40%) GDPR
3 17 (6.80%) Actionable Recommendations
4 14 (5.60%) PCI DSS
5 13 (5.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (4.80%) NIST 800
7 11 (4.40%) NCSC
8 10 (4.00%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.60%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (1.60%) QA
10 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.80%) GRC
11 2 (0.80%) RMADS
11 2 (0.80%) SLA
12 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 11 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.80%) Docker
4 2 (0.80%) XenApp
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.00%) SCCM
2 4 (1.60%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 4 (1.60%) Nessus
2 4 (1.60%) Terraform
3 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.80%) Ansible
4 2 (0.80%) Kibana
4 2 (0.80%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.80%) logstash
4 2 (0.80%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 52 (20.80%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.80%) Splunk
3 31 (12.40%) LogRhythm
4 17 (6.80%) Qualys
4 17 (6.80%) Red Hat
4 17 (6.80%) Varonis
5 16 (6.40%) Darktrace
5 16 (6.40%) Forcepoint
6 15 (6.00%) FireEye
7 8 (3.20%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.80%) Virgin Media
9 6 (2.40%) Cisco
10 3 (1.20%) Sage
10 3 (1.20%) Symantec
10 3 (1.20%) VMware
11 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.80%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.80%) Citrix
11 2 (0.80%) IronPort
12 1 (0.40%) SAP