SOC Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Centre Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 410 488
Rank change year-on-year +57 +78 -45
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 32 36 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.16% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.17% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 28 7
10th Percentile £518 £450 £463
25th Percentile £553 £470 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £663 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +26.19% -3.45%
75th Percentile £688 £727 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £600 £675 £525
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% +7.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,796 21,663 29,128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,116 20,427
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,107 1,446
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.02 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.92
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Engineer in the UK excluding London

SOC Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SOC Engineer in the UK excluding London

SOC Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Engineer in the UK excluding London

SOC Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOC Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SOC Engineer in the UK excluding London

SOC Engineer
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 SOC Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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 +13 22 £600 -17.24% 2
South East +12 5 £590 +5.39%
Midlands +29 4 £600 -12.73%
West Midlands +25 4 £600 -12.73%
North of England +15 1 £600 +33.33% 7
North West +8 1 £600 +33.33% 1
SOC Engineer
UK

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, SOC Engineer 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 UK excluding London region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (90.63%) Security Cleared
2 24 (75.00%) SIEM
3 22 (68.75%) Cybersecurity
4 21 (65.63%) Security Operations
5 19 (59.38%) Incident Response
6 18 (56.25%) Security Operations Centre
7 17 (53.13%) DV Cleared
8 16 (50.00%) SC Cleared
9 12 (37.50%) Analytics
9 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
9 12 (37.50%) SOAR
10 10 (31.25%) SANS
10 10 (31.25%) Azure
10 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
11 9 (28.13%) Degree
12 8 (25.00%) AWS
12 8 (25.00%) Time Management
12 8 (25.00%) Use Case
12 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (25.00%) CSOC
13 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
13 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (21.88%) Splunk
14 6 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
14 6 (18.75%) Cloud Security
14 6 (18.75%) Cloud Native
15 5 (15.63%) Cyber Threat
15 5 (15.63%) Security Posture
15 5 (15.63%) Vulnerability Assessment
15 5 (15.63%) Service Delivery

SOC Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Firewall
2 3 (9.38%) Network Security
3 1 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Regular Expression
2 1 (3.13%) .NET
2 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 18 (56.25%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (25.00%) CSOC
3 6 (18.75%) Cloud Native
4 5 (15.63%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (15.63%) Security Posture
5 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
6 3 (9.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (6.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (6.25%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) SIEM
2 22 (68.75%) Cybersecurity
3 21 (65.63%) Security Operations
4 19 (59.38%) Incident Response
5 12 (37.50%) Analytics
5 12 (37.50%) SOAR
6 8 (25.00%) Time Management
6 8 (25.00%) Use Case
7 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (18.75%) Cloud Security
8 6 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (15.63%) Service Delivery
9 5 (15.63%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 4 (12.50%) Digital Strategy
10 4 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
10 4 (12.50%) Log Analytics
10 4 (12.50%) Security Architecture
10 4 (12.50%) Threat Detection
11 3 (9.38%) ITIL
11 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.13%) Python
1 1 (3.13%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 29 (90.63%) Security Cleared
2 17 (53.13%) DV Cleared
3 16 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 10 (31.25%) SANS
5 9 (28.13%) Degree
6 4 (12.50%) GIAC
7 2 (6.25%) BC Cleared
7 2 (6.25%) CASP
7 2 (6.25%) CEH
7 2 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (6.25%) CREST Certified
7 2 (6.25%) GCED
7 2 (6.25%) GSEC
8 1 (3.13%) CCDP
8 1 (3.13%) CCNA
8 1 (3.13%) CCNP
8 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (12.50%) NCSC
1 4 (12.50%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) Splunk
3 4 (12.50%) LogRhythm
3 4 (12.50%) TippingPoint
4 3 (9.38%) Trend Micro
5 2 (6.25%) Citrix
5 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.13%) Carbon Black
6 1 (3.13%) Dell
6 1 (3.13%) HP