Security Operations Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Operations (SecOps)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 236 269 382
Rank change year-on-year +33 +113 -15
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 106 193 251
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 0.81% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.90% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 137 193
10th Percentile £370 £400 £430
25th Percentile £425 £519 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +13.04% +10.84%
75th Percentile £600 £763 £725
90th Percentile £725 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £590 £603 £588
% change year-on-year -2.16% +2.64% +11.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Security Operations
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Operations trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Operations.

Security Operations daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Operations over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Security Operations daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (5.66%) Confluence
2 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 17 (16.04%) Azure
2 7 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (4.72%) AWS
4 4 (3.77%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.83%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (2.83%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.89%) IaaS
6 2 (1.89%) SaaS
7 1 (0.94%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (0.94%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.94%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.94%) GCP
7 1 (0.94%) GitHub
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (20.75%) Firewall
2 12 (11.32%) Network Security
3 8 (7.55%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (5.66%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.83%) DNS
5 3 (2.83%) LAN
5 3 (2.83%) tcpdump
5 3 (2.83%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.89%) SSL
6 2 (1.89%) VPN
6 2 (1.89%) WAN
7 1 (0.94%) BGP
7 1 (0.94%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.94%) HTTP
7 1 (0.94%) Internet
7 1 (0.94%) IPsec
7 1 (0.94%) OSPF
7 1 (0.94%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.94%) SMTP
7 1 (0.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.83%) Apache Hive
1 3 (2.83%) Hadoop
1 3 (2.83%) Tableau
2 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (5.66%) JIRA
2 3 (2.83%) IDA Disassembler
3 2 (1.89%) Git
4 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.94%) GitLab
4 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (9.43%) Finance
1 10 (9.43%) Public Sector
2 8 (7.55%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.66%) Banking
3 6 (5.66%) Telecoms
4 5 (4.72%) Law
5 4 (3.77%) Legal
6 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.89%) German Language
8 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.94%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Marketing
8 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (18.87%) Analyst
2 17 (16.04%) Security Specialist
2 17 (16.04%) Senior
3 12 (11.32%) Security Engineer
4 11 (10.38%) Consultant
5 10 (9.43%) Security Analyst
6 9 (8.49%) SOC Analyst
7 8 (7.55%) Architect
7 8 (7.55%) IT Security Specialist
7 8 (7.55%) Security Manager
7 8 (7.55%) Security Operations Specialist
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Security Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Security Consultant
9 5 (4.72%) SOC Architect
9 5 (4.72%) SOC Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Information Manager
10 4 (3.77%) Lead
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Security Specialist
10 4 (3.77%) Splunk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.83%) JSON
1 3 (2.83%) OLE
1 3 (2.83%) XML
2 2 (1.89%) Ajax
2 2 (1.89%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.89%) CSS
2 2 (1.89%) HTML
2 2 (1.89%) SAML
2 2 (1.89%) SOAP
2 2 (1.89%) Web Services
3 1 (0.94%) .NET
3 1 (0.94%) OAuth
3 1 (0.94%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.94%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (23.58%) Management Information System
2 21 (19.81%) Security Operations Centre
3 15 (14.15%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (5.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (4.72%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.77%) CMDB
6 4 (3.77%) Cyberattack
6 4 (3.77%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.83%) YARA
8 2 (1.89%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.89%) CSOC
8 2 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.89%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.89%) PKI
9 1 (0.94%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.47%) Windows
2 17 (16.04%) Linux
3 7 (6.60%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.89%) Unix
5 1 (0.94%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.94%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (45.28%) Incident Response
2 48 (45.28%) SIEM
3 36 (33.96%) Vulnerability Management
4 24 (22.64%) Data Loss Prevention
4 24 (22.64%) Information Security
5 19 (17.92%) Penetration Testing
6 17 (16.04%) Data Security
7 15 (14.15%) Threat Intelligence
8 14 (13.21%) Risk Management
9 12 (11.32%) Agile
9 12 (11.32%) Incident Management
10 10 (9.43%) Cloud Security
10 10 (9.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 9 (8.49%) Data Protection
12 8 (7.55%) ITIL
12 8 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (7.55%) Security Monitoring
12 8 (7.55%) Threat Modelling
12 8 (7.55%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.43%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.66%) Python
3 5 (4.72%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.89%) Bash
5 1 (0.94%) Go
5 1 (0.94%) Java
5 1 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (19.81%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.04%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.38%) CISSP
3 11 (10.38%) Degree
4 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.66%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.66%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (4.72%) MCSE
7 4 (3.77%) GCIH
8 3 (2.83%) CISM
8 3 (2.83%) GCIA
8 3 (2.83%) GIAC
9 1 (0.94%) CCNA
9 1 (0.94%) CCSP
9 1 (0.94%) CEH
9 1 (0.94%) CISA
9 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.94%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.94%) ISSEP
9 1 (0.94%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.26%) NIST
2 12 (11.32%) GDPR
3 8 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.72%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.89%) GRC
6 2 (1.89%) RMADS
7 1 (0.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (12.26%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.72%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.83%) Snort
3 3 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.89%) Docker
4 2 (1.89%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.89%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (5.66%) Nessus
2 5 (4.72%) CSIRT
3 3 (2.83%) Kibana
3 3 (2.83%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.83%) QRadar
3 3 (2.83%) Terraform
4 2 (1.89%) Ansible
4 2 (1.89%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (1.89%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (1.89%) SCCM
5 1 (0.94%) CASB
5 1 (0.94%) Grafana
5 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (36.79%) Microsoft
2 18 (16.98%) Qualys
3 17 (16.04%) LogRhythm
3 17 (16.04%) Varonis
4 16 (15.09%) Forcepoint
5 12 (11.32%) Splunk
6 8 (7.55%) Palo Alto
7 7 (6.60%) ServiceNow
8 5 (4.72%) Cisco
9 4 (3.77%) Google
9 4 (3.77%) VMware
10 3 (2.83%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (2.83%) Oracle
11 2 (1.89%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (1.89%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.89%) Citrix
11 2 (1.89%) CyberArk
11 2 (1.89%) ForeScout
12 1 (0.94%) ArcSight
12 1 (0.94%) TippingPoint