SOC Analyst Contracts in England

Security Operations Centre Analyst
UK > England

The median Security Operations Centre Analyst daily rate in England is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 537 716
Rank change year-on-year +144 +179 -134
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Analyst 156 131 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.26% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.27% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 108 45
10th Percentile £390 £260 £353
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £646 £631 £575
90th Percentile £700 £710 £713
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £475
% change year-on-year - +7.89% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £11.25 £68.15 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -83.49% +9.04% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £75.83 £68.75
90th Percentile - £77.63 -
UK median hourly rate £11.25 £68.15 £62.50
% change year-on-year -83.49% +9.04% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

SOC Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Analyst in England

SOC Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for SOC Analyst in England

SOC Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Analyst in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Analyst in England

SOC Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOC Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for SOC Analyst in England

SOC Analyst
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 SOC Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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
South West +50 63 £550 +15.79% 2
West Midlands +56 32 £525 +50.00% 3
Midlands +53 32 £525 +40.00% 4
London +91 19 £465 -19.13% 7
East of England +4 18 £650 +8.33% 1
South East +8 11 £450 -25.00% 3
North of England +20 4 £450 -26.53% 4
North West +12 4 £450 -25.00% 1
SOC Analyst
UK

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, SOC Analyst 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 England region featuring SOC Analyst in the job title.

1 106 (67.95%) Security Cleared
2 88 (56.41%) Security Operations
3 86 (55.13%) Cybersecurity
4 83 (53.21%) SIEM
5 76 (48.72%) Incident Response
6 62 (39.74%) DV Cleared
7 61 (39.10%) Security Operations Centre
8 40 (25.64%) SC Cleared
9 37 (23.72%) Use Case
9 37 (23.72%) Microsoft
10 35 (22.44%) Vulnerability Management
11 34 (21.79%) Linux
11 34 (21.79%) CSOC
12 33 (21.15%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 33 (21.15%) Azure
13 29 (18.59%) Firewall
13 29 (18.59%) Information Security
13 29 (18.59%) Threat Intelligence
14 28 (17.95%) GDPR
14 28 (17.95%) Management Information System
14 28 (17.95%) Splunk
15 27 (17.31%) Windows
16 24 (15.38%) Degree
17 23 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (14.74%) LogRhythm
18 20 (12.82%) Incident Management
19 19 (12.18%) Analytics
19 19 (12.18%) Threat Detection
20 18 (11.54%) Public Sector
20 18 (11.54%) SANS

SOC Analyst Skill Set
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 15 (9.62%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (21.15%) Azure
2 15 (9.62%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (0.64%) Azure Stack
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (18.59%) Firewall
2 6 (3.85%) Network Security
3 5 (3.21%) DNS
3 5 (3.21%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.92%) FTP
4 3 (1.92%) HTTP
4 3 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (1.92%) SMTP
4 3 (1.92%) SSL
4 3 (1.92%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.64%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
General
1 18 (11.54%) Public Sector
2 15 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.97%) Social Skills
4 10 (6.41%) Legal
5 9 (5.77%) Finance
6 6 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.56%) Banking
8 1 (0.64%) Electronics
8 1 (0.64%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.64%) Games
8 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.64%) Marketing
8 1 (0.64%) Police
8 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (1.92%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 61 (39.10%) Security Operations Centre
2 34 (21.79%) CSOC
3 28 (17.95%) Management Information System
4 15 (9.62%) Cyberattack
5 14 (8.97%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (7.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 11 (7.05%) Private Cloud
7 9 (5.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 7 (4.49%) Security Posture
9 6 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (2.56%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.28%) CCTV
11 2 (1.28%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 34 (21.79%) Linux
2 27 (17.31%) Windows
3 12 (7.69%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (56.41%) Security Operations
2 86 (55.13%) Cybersecurity
3 83 (53.21%) SIEM
4 76 (48.72%) Incident Response
5 37 (23.72%) Use Case
6 35 (22.44%) Vulnerability Management
7 33 (21.15%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 29 (18.59%) Information Security
8 29 (18.59%) Threat Intelligence
9 23 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (12.82%) Incident Management
11 19 (12.18%) Analytics
11 19 (12.18%) Threat Detection
12 17 (10.90%) ITIL
13 16 (10.26%) Time Management
14 14 (8.97%) Information Assurance
14 14 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (8.33%) Risk Management
15 13 (8.33%) SOAR
15 13 (8.33%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (2.56%) Python
2 4 (2.56%) Search Processing Language
3 3 (1.92%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.64%) Bash
4 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 106 (67.95%) Security Cleared
2 62 (39.74%) DV Cleared
3 40 (25.64%) SC Cleared
4 24 (15.38%) Degree
5 18 (11.54%) SANS
6 14 (8.97%) CISSP
7 7 (4.49%) CEH
8 6 (3.85%) CISM
8 6 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.92%) GIAC
11 2 (1.28%) GCIA
11 2 (1.28%) GCIH
12 1 (0.64%) CCNA
12 1 (0.64%) CCSP
12 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (17.95%) GDPR
2 16 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (8.97%) NCSC
3 14 (8.97%) NIST
4 10 (6.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (6.41%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.56%) SLA
6 2 (1.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.64%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (3.85%) Kibana
1 6 (3.85%) logstash
2 5 (3.21%) Nessus
3 4 (2.56%) QRadar
4 3 (1.92%) Nmap
5 2 (1.28%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 37 (23.72%) Microsoft
2 28 (17.95%) Splunk
3 23 (14.74%) LogRhythm
4 16 (10.26%) Darktrace
4 16 (10.26%) FireEye
5 7 (4.49%) Qualys
6 6 (3.85%) Forcepoint
6 6 (3.85%) Varonis
7 4 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.92%) IronPort
8 3 (1.92%) Sage
8 3 (1.92%) Symantec
9 2 (1.28%) AlienVault
9 2 (1.28%) ArcSight
9 2 (1.28%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (1.28%) Oracle
9 2 (1.28%) Sun
10 1 (0.64%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.64%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.64%) Zscaler