SOC Engineer Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Security Operations Centre Engineer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £570 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 71 -
Rank change year-on-year +23 - -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 4 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.84% 0.80% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £528 - -
25th Percentile £542 £470 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £560 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -
75th Percentile £590 £650 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £590 £560 -
% change year-on-year +5.39% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 450 822 799
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 93.84% 97.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 665 596
10th Percentile £225 £255 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £585 £575 £555
90th Percentile £680 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 3 41
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.23 -
25th Percentile £17.64 £11.33 £10.77
Median hourly rate £23.75 £13.16 £12.05
Median % change year-on-year +80.47% +9.21% -13.77%
75th Percentile £29.38 £28.46 £21.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £37.63 £27.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings that featured SOC Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Engineer in Buckinghamshire

SOC Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC Engineer in Buckinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for SOC Engineer in Buckinghamshire

SOC Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOC Engineer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Milton Keynes +27 3 £590 +5.39%
SOC Engineer
South East

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, SOC Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Buckinghamshire region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) TippingPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Regular Expression
3 1 (25.00%) Trend Micro
3 1 (25.00%) LogRhythm
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (25.00%) TippingPoint
1 1 (25.00%) Trend Micro