SOC Architect Contracts in England

Security Operations Centre Architect
UK > England

The median Security Operations Centre Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 644 786
Rank change year-on-year +113 +142 -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Architect 7 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.008% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.008% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £575 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -
75th Percentile £725 £819 £575
90th Percentile - £920 -
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £550
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +22.22%

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 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

SOC Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Architect in England

SOC Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SOC Architect in England

SOC Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Architect in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Architect in England

SOC Architect
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 Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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 +106 7 £650 -33.33%
SOC Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, SOC Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Security Operations
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
2 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 4 (57.14%) Python
3 4 (57.14%) Palo Alto
3 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 4 (57.14%) SOAR
3 4 (57.14%) CSIRT
4 2 (28.57%) NIST
4 2 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) GDPR
4 2 (28.57%) Information Security
5 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (14.29%) CISSP
5 1 (14.29%) SCCP
5 1 (14.29%) Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
5 1 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (14.29%) Google

SOC Architect 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Security Operations
2 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
3 4 (57.14%) SOAR
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) Information Security
5 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (14.29%) Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
5 1 (14.29%) Project Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) SIEM
5 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Ping Identity