SOAR Contracts in Scotland

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SOAR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOAR over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 149 -
Rank change year-on-year +23 - -
Contract jobs citing SOAR 1 17 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.046% 0.62% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £438 £461 -
90th Percentile - £468 -
UK median daily rate £568 £570 £625
% change year-on-year -0.44% -8.80% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

SOAR is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,916 2,536 3,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.55% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,814 2,263
10th Percentile £225 £261 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year - +0.48% +11.23%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £550
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 56 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.04 £19.45
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.25 £38.71
Median % change year-on-year +18.98% -58.02% -3.23%
75th Percentile £46.24 £49.24 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing SOAR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in Scotland

SOAR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAR in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for SOAR in Scotland

SOAR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ForeScout