SOAR Contracts in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 136 165
Rank change year-on-year +62 +29 -
Contract jobs citing SOAR 86 31 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.71% 0.85% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 0.95% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 31 4
10th Percentile £494 £413 £539
25th Percentile £525 £450 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +19.47% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £580 £723 £593
90th Percentile £600 £738 £687
England median daily rate £568 £587 £600
% change year-on-year -3.28% -2.21% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £97.50 -
% change year-on-year -58.97% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,629 3,250 3,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.83% 89.63% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,396 2,332
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 335 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.00 £17.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £70.54
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the South West

SOAR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SOAR in the South West

SOAR
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAR in the South West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAR in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Wiltshire +33 70 £568 +19.47% 1
Bristol - 7 £525 -
Gloucestershire - 7 - -
SOAR
England

SOAR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 19 (22.09%) Azure
2 7 (8.14%) AWS
3 4 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (4.65%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.16%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 9 (10.47%) JIRA
General
1 55 (63.95%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.63%) Telecoms
3 7 (8.14%) Legal
4 6 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Finance
5 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.16%) Aviation
7 1 (1.16%) Military
Job Titles
1 56 (65.12%) Analyst
2 26 (30.23%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 20 (23.26%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 20 (23.26%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 12 (13.95%) Lead
4 12 (13.95%) SOC Analyst
5 11 (12.79%) SOC Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) Compliance Analyst
6 9 (10.47%) Cyber Defence Analyst
6 9 (10.47%) Data Analyst
6 9 (10.47%) Data Compliance Analyst
7 7 (8.14%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (1.16%) Incident Analyst
9 1 (1.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (1.16%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (1.16%) Operations Analyst
9 1 (1.16%) Security Analyst
9 1 (1.16%) Security Operations Analyst
9 1 (1.16%) SIEM Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 48 (55.81%) Cyber Threat
2 28 (32.56%) Cyber Defence
2 28 (32.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 23 (26.74%) Management Information System
4 12 (13.95%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (8.14%) Private Cloud
6 6 (6.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (5.81%) Cloud Native
7 5 (5.81%) Security Posture
8 4 (4.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Linux
1 2 (2.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.16%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (96.51%) SIEM
2 62 (72.09%) Cybersecurity
3 54 (62.79%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 54 (62.79%) Threat Intelligence
4 46 (53.49%) Incident Response
5 45 (52.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 37 (43.02%) Incident Management
6 37 (43.02%) Security Operations
7 36 (41.86%) Use Case
8 32 (37.21%) Root Cause Analysis
9 28 (32.56%) Case Management
9 28 (32.56%) Information Security
10 27 (31.40%) CRM
11 26 (30.23%) Malware Analysis
11 26 (30.23%) Open Source
11 26 (30.23%) OSINT
11 26 (30.23%) Protective Monitoring
12 23 (26.74%) Mentoring
13 20 (23.26%) Cyber Intelligence
14 18 (20.93%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.16%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 75 (87.21%) Security Cleared
2 67 (77.91%) DV Cleared
3 8 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.33%) CEH
4 2 (2.33%) CREST Certified
4 2 (2.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (37.21%) NIST
2 28 (32.56%) NIST 800
3 4 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.65%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 4 (4.65%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 1 (1.16%) Puppet
2 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (55.81%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.28%) Splunk
3 1 (1.16%) ArcSight
3 1 (1.16%) Red Hat