SOAR Contracts in the South East

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 217 262
Rank change year-on-year +27 +45 -60
Contract jobs citing SOAR 16 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.29% 0.069% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.077% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £497 £564 -
25th Percentile - £567 £738
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £619 £775
Median % change year-on-year -19.19% -20.16% +42.86%
75th Percentile £582 £663 £813
90th Percentile £743 £685 -
England median daily rate £568 £587 £600
% change year-on-year -3.28% -2.21% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,718 5,188 6,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.86% 89.29% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,744 3,601 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £620 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 219 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.23 £23.83 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62.49 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £63.45
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SOAR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAR in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SOAR in the South East

SOAR
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAR in the South East over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAR in the South East

SOAR
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Hampshire +14 13 £691 +17.62% 2
Thames Valley - 3 £500 - 3
Berkshire - 3 £500 - 3
SOAR
England

SOAR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Big Data
1 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 13 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) OAuth
1 2 (12.50%) OpenID
1 2 (12.50%) SAML
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (93.75%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (93.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 12 (75.00%) Cyber Threat
2 12 (75.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) SIEM
1 14 (87.50%) Use Case
2 13 (81.25%) Case Management
2 13 (81.25%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 13 (81.25%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (81.25%) Incident Management
2 13 (81.25%) Incident Response
2 13 (81.25%) Threat Intelligence
3 12 (75.00%) CRM
3 12 (75.00%) Information Security
3 12 (75.00%) Mentoring
3 12 (75.00%) Protective Monitoring
3 12 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 9 (56.25%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 4 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (18.75%) Identity Management
7 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
7 2 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
8 1 (6.25%) DevOps
8 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Bash
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 12 (75.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (81.25%) NIST
1 13 (81.25%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft