SOAR Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring SOAR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 111 121
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +8
Contract jobs citing SOAR 10 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.70% 0.063% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.070% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £506 £575 £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £850
Median % change year-on-year - -29.41% +13.33%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £875
90th Percentile £700 - -
South East median daily rate £650 £645 £610
% change year-on-year +0.78% +5.74% -18.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

SOAR falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,274 1,438 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.53% 89.88% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 793 977
10th Percentile £305 £313 £213
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £689
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 45 70
10th Percentile £14.75 £26.10 £24.33
25th Percentile £18.87 £42.50 £48.40
Median hourly rate £37.28 £59.00 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -36.81% -3.98% +21.68%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.19 £76.47
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOAR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

SOAR job vacancy trend in Berkshire

SOAR
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SOAR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SOAR

SOAR
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAR in Berkshire over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOAR in Berkshire

SOAR
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 7 December 2025. 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
Reading - 9 £625 - 4
Windsor - 1 £513 -
SOAR
South East

SOAR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (10.00%) Vertex AI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
1 4 (40.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) SOC Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (50.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) SIEM
2 8 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (70.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (40.00%) Threat Detection
5 3 (30.00%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (10.00%) AI
7 1 (10.00%) Analytics
7 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
7 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
7 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
7 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (10.00%) Purple Team
7 1 (10.00%) Red Team
7 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
7 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
7 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
7 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CEH
2 1 (10.00%) ECSA
2 1 (10.00%) GCFA
2 1 (10.00%) GCIA
2 1 (10.00%) GCIH
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk