Security Operations Centre Contracts in the City of London

Security Operations Centre
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 159 184
Rank change year-on-year +37 +25 -29
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 2 12 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.092% 0.33% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 0.93% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 6
10th Percentile £729 £581 £553
25th Percentile £734 £600 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £675 £620
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.87% +24.00%
75th Percentile £772 £813 £630
90th Percentile £781 £828 -
Central London median daily rate £750 £675 £620
% change year-on-year +11.11% +8.87% +24.00%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Security Operations Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 672 1,284 1,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.92% 35.56% 35.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 878 1,092
10th Percentile £275 £350 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £848 £850 £808
Central London median daily rate £575 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 23
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.33 £19.85
25th Percentile £14.38 - £38.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -26.32% +164.26%
75th Percentile £27.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile £36.60 - £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -34.29% -26.32% +150.16%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in the City of London

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Centre in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in the City of London

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Operations Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CSOC
1 1 (50.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Feasibility Study
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft