SOC Architect Contracts

Security Operations Centre Architect
UK

The median Security Operations Centre Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 703 858
Rank change year-on-year +120 +155 -175
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Architect 8 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.007% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.007% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £575 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £725 £819 £594
90th Percentile - £920 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate - £650 £550
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,491 57,026 85,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,430 39,779 59,788
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,635 1,621 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

SOC Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SOC Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Architect in the UK

SOC Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC Architect.

Daily rate trend for SOC Architect in the UK

SOC Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Architect over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Architect in the UK

SOC Architect
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOC Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Work from Home +126 8 £650 -
England +119 8 £650 -
London +107 8 £650 -33.33%

SOC Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, SOC Architect 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 featuring SOC Architect in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Security Operations
2 6 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 5 (62.50%) Python
3 5 (62.50%) Palo Alto
3 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
3 5 (62.50%) SOAR
3 5 (62.50%) CSIRT
4 2 (25.00%) NIST
4 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) GDPR
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security
5 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Detection
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
5 1 (12.50%) CISSP
5 1 (12.50%) SCCP
5 1 (12.50%) Coaching
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
5 1 (12.50%) Retail
5 1 (12.50%) Google

SOC Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Security Operations
2 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) Incident Response
3 5 (62.50%) SOAR
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security
5 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (12.50%) Coaching
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 1 (12.50%) Project Governance
5 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) SIEM
5 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
1 5 (62.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Ping Identity