SOAR Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 407 574
Rank change year-on-year +77 +167 -117
Contract jobs citing SOAR 20 61 47
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.24% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.27% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 45 41
10th Percentile £411 £424 £473
25th Percentile £525 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £694 £725 £675
90th Percentile £725 £798 £750
UK median daily rate £568 £565 £600
% change year-on-year +0.44% -5.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £97.50 -
% change year-on-year -58.97% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,243 22,460 40,020
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,870 29,041
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 519 537
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £13.90
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

SOAR
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOAR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOAR trend for jobs with a WFH option

SOAR
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOAR.

SOAR daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOAR
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SOAR over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

SOAR daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SOAR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) SOC Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) SOC Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Compliance Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Compliance Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) IT Security Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Security Posture
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (15.00%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (15.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 14 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (65.00%) SIEM
4 7 (35.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (35.00%) Security Operations
5 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 5 (25.00%) Information Security
5 5 (25.00%) Use Case
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
6 4 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (20.00%) Log Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Security Architecture
6 4 (20.00%) Threat Detection
6 4 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 4 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 3 (15.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 3 (15.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) CEH
4 1 (5.00%) CISM
4 1 (5.00%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.00%) CREST Certified
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) GCIH
4 1 (5.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) NIST
2 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (20.00%) NCSC
3 3 (15.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) CSIRT
1 4 (20.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 1 (5.00%) Nessus
2 1 (5.00%) Puppet
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (40.00%) Splunk
3 4 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.00%) ArcSight
4 1 (5.00%) ForeScout
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow