Security Operations Contracts in England

Security Operations (SecOps)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 268 363
Rank change year-on-year +39 +95 +66
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 376 458 517
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.01% 0.97% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.08% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 342 391
10th Percentile £425 £406 £450
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £811 £775
UK median daily rate £590 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -1.67% +2.56% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - £44.86 -
25th Percentile - £63.11 £36.25
Median hourly rate £11.25 £84.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -86.69% +125.33% +15.74%
75th Percentile £35.00 £95.31 £38.75
90th Percentile £49.25 £98.13 -
UK median hourly rate £11.25 £84.50 £39.73
% change year-on-year -86.69% +112.71% +22.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,905 42,373 64,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.51% 89.84% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,680 29,662 46,011
10th Percentile £304 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £443 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,329 1,534 1,706
10th Percentile £12.79 £11.87 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.06 £16.25 £15.90
Median hourly rate £38.12 £37.42 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% +45.72% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.60 £64.59 £50.74
90th Percentile £73.35 £75.80 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +38.46% +13.04%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Operations in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Operations in England

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +20 134 £600 - 39
South West +56 92 £570 -5.00% 21
South East +27 55 £533 -14.31% 16
Midlands +8 49 £640 -1.54% 5
West Midlands +17 48 £645 -4.44% 4
North of England -51 17 £625 +11.61% 24
East of England -4 15 £650 +47.31% 9
North West -54 10 £638 +15.91% 10
Yorkshire -1 7 £625 +19.05% 6
East Midlands +1 1 £567 -6.44% 1
Security Operations
UK

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 14 (3.72%) CMS
2 8 (2.13%) Apache
3 4 (1.06%) Confluence
4 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.27%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 50 (13.30%) Azure
2 22 (5.85%) AWS
3 16 (4.26%) Azure Sentinel
4 13 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (2.13%) Entra ID
6 7 (1.86%) IaaS
7 6 (1.60%) Power Platform
7 6 (1.60%) SaaS
8 5 (1.33%) GCP
8 5 (1.33%) PaaS
9 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.53%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.53%) GitHub
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 1 (0.27%) AWS CloudTrail
12 1 (0.27%) AWS KMS
12 1 (0.27%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.27%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 55 (14.63%) Network Security
2 43 (11.44%) Firewall
3 34 (9.04%) Intrusion Detection
4 11 (2.93%) DNS
4 11 (2.93%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.13%) Internet
6 6 (1.60%) HTTP
7 5 (1.33%) DHCP
7 5 (1.33%) FTP
8 4 (1.06%) VPN
8 4 (1.06%) WAN
9 3 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (0.80%) LAN
9 3 (0.80%) SMTP
10 2 (0.53%) SSL
10 2 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.53%) Wireless
11 1 (0.27%) BGP
11 1 (0.27%) IPsec
11 1 (0.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.12%) Big Data
2 7 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.33%) Power BI
4 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Git
2 4 (1.06%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.06%) JIRA
3 3 (0.80%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.80%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.53%) GitLab
4 2 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 65 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
2 61 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 44 (11.70%) Finance
4 26 (6.91%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.12%) Banking
6 12 (3.19%) Manufacturing
6 12 (3.19%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.66%) Military
8 6 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.33%) Legal
10 3 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.80%) Games
10 3 (0.80%) Marketing
11 2 (0.53%) Electronics
11 2 (0.53%) French Language
11 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.53%) Italian Language
11 2 (0.53%) Law
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 125 (33.24%) Analyst
2 79 (21.01%) SOC Analyst
3 32 (8.51%) Lead
4 30 (7.98%) Architect
4 30 (7.98%) Security Engineer
5 29 (7.71%) Security Analyst
5 29 (7.71%) Senior
6 23 (6.12%) Security Specialist
6 23 (6.12%) SOC Engineer
7 22 (5.85%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
8 18 (4.79%) Consultant
9 15 (3.99%) Security Architect
10 14 (3.72%) SOC Manager
11 13 (3.46%) Cyber Threat Analyst
11 13 (3.46%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
11 13 (3.46%) Operations Analyst
11 13 (3.46%) Security Operations Analyst
11 13 (3.46%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (3.19%) Security Manager
13 11 (2.93%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.12%) Apache NiFi
2 7 (1.86%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.60%) AngularJS
3 6 (1.60%) CSS
3 6 (1.60%) LDAP
4 5 (1.33%) HTML
4 5 (1.33%) XML
5 4 (1.06%) SOAP
6 3 (0.80%) JSON
6 3 (0.80%) SAML
6 3 (0.80%) Web Services
6 3 (0.80%) YAML
7 2 (0.53%) Ajax
7 2 (0.53%) PySpark
8 1 (0.27%) EDI
8 1 (0.27%) JDBC
8 1 (0.27%) OAuth
8 1 (0.27%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.27%) Regular Expression
8 1 (0.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 129 (34.31%) Security Operations Centre
2 70 (18.62%) Management Information System
3 65 (17.29%) Cyber Threat
4 50 (13.30%) Cyber Defence
5 38 (10.11%) CSOC
6 30 (7.98%) Security Posture
7 25 (6.65%) Distributed Applications
8 19 (5.05%) Cyberattack
9 16 (4.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 13 (3.46%) Onboarding
11 11 (2.93%) Operational Technology
12 9 (2.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 8 (2.13%) CMDB
14 7 (1.86%) CESG
15 6 (1.60%) Data Centre
15 6 (1.60%) Product Ownership
16 5 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
17 4 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
17 4 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
17 4 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (19.68%) Windows
2 65 (17.29%) Linux
3 23 (6.12%) Unix
4 21 (5.59%) Android
4 21 (5.59%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.86%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.80%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.53%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (59.31%) Cybersecurity
2 178 (47.34%) SIEM
3 157 (41.76%) Incident Response
4 118 (31.38%) Information Security
5 74 (19.68%) Vulnerability Management
6 72 (19.15%) Threat Intelligence
7 61 (16.22%) Analytics
8 60 (15.96%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 52 (13.83%) Use Case
10 47 (12.50%) Security Architecture
11 44 (11.70%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 43 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (10.37%) Incident Management
14 35 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (9.04%) Agile
16 33 (8.78%) Actionable Insight
17 32 (8.51%) Data Loss Prevention
17 32 (8.51%) Data Security
17 32 (8.51%) Threat Detection
18 31 (8.24%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 28 (7.45%) PowerShell
2 19 (5.05%) Python
3 11 (2.93%) JavaScript
3 11 (2.93%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (1.86%) Bash
5 5 (1.33%) Perl
6 4 (1.06%) Search Processing Language
7 3 (0.80%) Java
7 3 (0.80%) SQL
8 2 (0.53%) C
8 2 (0.53%) C++
8 2 (0.53%) Go
8 2 (0.53%) Ruby
8 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.27%) C#
Qualifications
1 177 (47.07%) Security Cleared
2 99 (26.33%) DV Cleared
3 69 (18.35%) SC Cleared
4 56 (14.89%) CISSP
4 56 (14.89%) Degree
5 30 (7.98%) CISM
6 27 (7.18%) SANS
7 21 (5.59%) CEH
8 15 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (3.99%) GIAC
9 13 (3.46%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (2.13%) CISA
10 8 (2.13%) GCIA
10 8 (2.13%) GCIH
11 7 (1.86%) CISMP
11 7 (1.86%) ISACA
11 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.86%) SSCP
12 6 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.50%) NIST
2 30 (7.98%) GDPR
3 26 (6.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (6.12%) Actionable Recommendations
5 22 (5.85%) PCI DSS
6 16 (4.26%) NIST 800
7 11 (2.93%) HIPAA
8 9 (2.39%) NCSC
9 6 (1.60%) GRC
10 5 (1.33%) Data Quality
11 4 (1.06%) COBIT
11 4 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (1.06%) QA
11 4 (1.06%) SLA
12 2 (0.53%) RMADS
13 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (5.05%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.80%) Docker
4 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.53%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (3.46%) Terraform
2 10 (2.66%) Nessus
3 9 (2.39%) CSIRT
4 7 (1.86%) Kibana
4 7 (1.86%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.86%) logstash
5 6 (1.60%) QRadar
5 6 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 5 (1.33%) SCCM
7 4 (1.06%) CASB
8 3 (0.80%) Ansible
8 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.53%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.53%) SCOrch
9 2 (0.53%) WSUS
10 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.27%) Grafana
10 1 (0.27%) Puppet
10 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 94 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.57%) Splunk
3 31 (8.24%) LogRhythm
4 23 (6.12%) Red Hat
5 21 (5.59%) Qualys
6 19 (5.05%) Varonis
7 18 (4.79%) ServiceNow
8 16 (4.26%) Forcepoint
9 15 (3.99%) Darktrace
10 14 (3.72%) FireEye
11 10 (2.66%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (2.39%) Cisco
13 7 (1.86%) Virgin Media
14 6 (1.60%) Palo Alto
15 5 (1.33%) Oracle
15 5 (1.33%) Rapid7
16 4 (1.06%) BeyondTrust
17 3 (0.80%) ForeScout
17 3 (0.80%) Sage
17 3 (0.80%) SAP