SOC Manager Contracts in London

Security Operations Centre Manager
England > London

The median Security Operations Centre Manager daily rate in London is £775 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 389 486 594
Rank change year-on-year +97 +108 -127
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Manager 1 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.006% 0.019% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.020% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £600 -
25th Percentile £738 £656 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £718 £800
Median % change year-on-year +8.01% -10.31% +39.13%
75th Percentile £813 £763 £831
90th Percentile - - £893
England median daily rate £675 £725 £650
% change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% +13.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,498 25,529 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,487 27,116
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 291 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.25 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.80 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

SOC Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Manager in London

SOC Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC Manager in London.

Daily rate trend for SOC Manager in London

SOC Manager Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, SOC Manager 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 London region featuring SOC Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (100.00%) CCSK
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management

SOC Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSK
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft