SOC Consultant Contracts

Security Operations Centre Consultant
UK

The median Security Operations Centre Consultant daily rate in the UK is £950 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 595 711 852
Rank change year-on-year +116 +141 -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Consultant 5 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.008% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.009% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile £671 £669 £483
25th Percentile £834 £697 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £950 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% - -
75th Percentile £978 £813 £775
90th Percentile £984 - £1,100
UK excluding London median daily rate £963 £700 £632
% change year-on-year +37.50% +10.76% -

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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

SOC Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Consultant in the UK

SOC Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SOC Consultant in the UK

SOC Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Consultant over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Consultant in the UK

SOC Consultant
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOC Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +120 5 £950 +26.67% 1
London +112 3 £763 -1.61%
UK excluding London +59 2 £963 +37.50% 1
North of England - 2 £963 - 1
North West - 2 £963 - 1
Work from Home +125 1 - -

SOC Consultant Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, SOC Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (60.00%) Threat Management
2 3 (60.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Intel
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) NIST
4 1 (20.00%) CISSP
4 1 (20.00%) CEH
4 1 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft

SOC Consultant 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:

General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (60.00%) Threat Management
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CEH
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Intel
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft