Security Operations Centre Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Centre
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 332 455
Rank change year-on-year +56 +123 -52
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 120 115 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.49% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.01% 1.51% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 95 48
10th Percentile £463 £286 £451
25th Percentile £500 £413 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -2.04% +44.12%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £763
90th Percentile £700 £738 £770
UK median daily rate £615 £613 £625
% change year-on-year +0.41% -2.00% +38.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £11.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £11.25 £32.69 £22.53
% change year-on-year -65.59% +45.13% -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Security Operations Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,968 7,613 9,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.14% 32.45% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,580 5,131 6,667
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 433 451
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £46.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Operations Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Centre in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations Centre in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations Centre in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Centre in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Operations Centre in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Centre
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations Centre within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South West +67 73 £575 -9.09% 5
Midlands +34 24 £615 -1.13% 9
West Midlands +28 22 £625 - 7
East of England -1 14 £650 +8.33% 3
North of England +4 4 £613 +1.07% 12
Scotland +30 3 £500 +11.11%
North West -3 3 £600 -0.99% 3
South East +19 2 £563 -6.25% 8
East Midlands +18 2 £584 -4.97% 2
Yorkshire +9 1 £1,000 +90.48% 7
Security Operations Centre
UK

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (11.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (9.17%) Azure
2 6 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (4.17%) AWS
4 1 (0.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.83%) Network Security
2 16 (13.33%) Firewall
3 6 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.50%) Big Data
General
1 21 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (11.67%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.67%) Military
5 4 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.50%) Finance
6 3 (2.50%) Games
7 2 (1.67%) Banking
7 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.83%) Electronics
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 63 (52.50%) Analyst
2 57 (47.50%) SOC Analyst
3 20 (16.67%) SOC Engineer
4 13 (10.83%) Senior
4 13 (10.83%) SOC Manager
5 12 (10.00%) Security Analyst
6 11 (9.17%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (7.50%) Lead
7 9 (7.50%) Project Manager
8 8 (6.67%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Operations Analyst
9 5 (4.17%) Security Operations Analyst
10 4 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 4 (3.33%) DV Cleared Project Manager
11 3 (2.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 3 (2.50%) Data Engineer
11 3 (2.50%) Security Manager
11 3 (2.50%) Security Specialist
11 3 (2.50%) SIEM Analyst
11 3 (2.50%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.50%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 45 (37.50%) CSOC
2 24 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 18 (15.00%) Cyber Defence
4 14 (11.67%) Cyberattack
5 9 (7.50%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (7.50%) Security Posture
6 8 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (3.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (2.50%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.67%) CCTV
9 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.83%) Insider Threat
10 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.17%) Linux
1 23 (19.17%) Windows
2 3 (2.50%) Android
2 3 (2.50%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (0.83%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 93 (77.50%) Cybersecurity
3 74 (61.67%) Incident Response
4 66 (55.00%) SIEM
5 38 (31.67%) Use Case
6 35 (29.17%) Information Security
7 31 (25.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (24.17%) Analytics
8 29 (24.17%) Threat Intelligence
9 26 (21.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 21 (17.50%) Time Management
11 19 (15.83%) ITIL
12 14 (11.67%) Security Architecture
12 14 (11.67%) SOAR
13 12 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 11 (9.17%) Agile
15 10 (8.33%) Cyber Resilience
15 10 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (7.50%) Mentoring
17 8 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (1.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 93 (77.50%) Security Cleared
2 62 (51.67%) DV Cleared
3 30 (25.00%) Degree
4 22 (18.33%) SANS
5 20 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 15 (12.50%) CISSP
7 8 (6.67%) CISM
8 6 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
10 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.83%) CEH
11 1 (0.83%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.83%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.83%) GCIH
11 1 (0.83%) GIAC
11 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.17%) GDPR
2 15 (12.50%) NCSC
2 15 (12.50%) NIST
3 12 (10.00%) NIST 800
4 3 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.67%) SLA
6 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.83%) Nessus
1 1 (0.83%) Puppet
1 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (17.50%) Splunk
2 19 (15.83%) Microsoft
3 15 (12.50%) Darktrace
3 15 (12.50%) FireEye
4 14 (11.67%) LogRhythm
5 4 (3.33%) Cisco
6 3 (2.50%) Sage
7 1 (0.83%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.83%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.83%) ForeScout
7 1 (0.83%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.83%) SAP
7 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.83%) Symantec
7 1 (0.83%) Zscaler