SOAR Contracts in the City of London

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring SOAR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOAR over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 123 168
Rank change year-on-year +3 +45 -
Contract jobs citing SOAR 3 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.20% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £737 - -
25th Percentile £748 £575 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £765 £650 £488
Median % change year-on-year +17.69% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £783 £725 £562
90th Percentile £793 - £651
Central London median daily rate £765 £650 £488
% change year-on-year +17.69% +33.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for SOAR in the City of London

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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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) FTP
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SMTP
2 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Product Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) Rapid7
1 1 (33.33%) VMware