Security Operations Centre Contracts in the City of London

Security Operations Centre
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 125 156
Rank change year-on-year +11 +31 +33
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 4 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.092% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% 0.29% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 9
10th Percentile £523 £729 £514
25th Percentile £538 £734 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +15.38% +4.84%
75th Percentile £681 £772 £775
90th Percentile £738 £781 £815
Central London median daily rate £575 £750 £650
% change year-on-year -23.33% +15.38% +4.84%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Security Operations Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 596 681 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.33% 31.45% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 460 842
10th Percentile £352 £263 £363
25th Percentile £475 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £820 £838 £860
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £616
% change year-on-year - -6.66% +7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 14
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -38.53% -19.54%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £87.16
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.76 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.70% -34.29% -24.73%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Security Operations Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in the City of London

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Centre in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in the City of London

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations Centre in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations Centre in the City of London

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) CSOC
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Log Correlation
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) SOAR
4 1 (25.00%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk