SOC Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Operations Centre Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 451 615
Rank change year-on-year +116 +164 -147
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 15 17 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.100% 0.068% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.071% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 4
10th Percentile - - £495
25th Percentile £575 £450 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +33.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £681 £769 £544
90th Percentile £725 £776 £555
UK median daily rate £615 £688 £525
% change year-on-year -10.55% +30.95% +7.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,074 23,868 42,064
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.34% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,444 16,854 30,396
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 547 598
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.46
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.95 £67.50 £57.47
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.10 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

SOC Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured SOC Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOC Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

SOC Engineer
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 SOC Engineer.

SOC Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 11 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (93.33%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (73.33%) Incident Response
3 10 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
4 9 (60.00%) Security Operations
4 9 (60.00%) SOAR
5 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
5 8 (53.33%) SIEM
6 7 (46.67%) Security Posture
7 6 (40.00%) Azure
7 6 (40.00%) Splunk
7 6 (40.00%) Analytics
8 5 (33.33%) AWS
8 5 (33.33%) Threat Detection
8 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
8 5 (33.33%) Python
8 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
8 5 (33.33%) Cloud Security
8 5 (33.33%) Log Analytics
9 4 (26.67%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (26.67%) NCSC
9 4 (26.67%) NIST
9 4 (26.67%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 4 (26.67%) Digital Strategy
9 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
9 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
9 4 (26.67%) CSIRT
9 4 (26.67%) Kalman Filter

SOC Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
1 1 (6.67%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Security Posture
2 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (26.67%) Public Cloud
3 3 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (73.33%) Incident Response
3 9 (60.00%) Security Operations
3 9 (60.00%) SOAR
4 8 (53.33%) SIEM
5 6 (40.00%) Analytics
6 5 (33.33%) Cloud Security
6 5 (33.33%) Log Analytics
6 5 (33.33%) Threat Detection
7 4 (26.67%) Digital Strategy
7 4 (26.67%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
7 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
8 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
9 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
9 1 (6.67%) NsoIT
9 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (6.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) CISSP
2 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) CEH
3 1 (6.67%) CREST Certified
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (26.67%) NCSC
1 4 (26.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) CSIRT
1 4 (26.67%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Splunk
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) HP
4 1 (6.67%) LogRhythm
4 1 (6.67%) TippingPoint
4 1 (6.67%) Trend Micro