SOC Engineer Contract Job Trends in Corsham

Security Operations Centre Engineer
Wiltshire > Corsham

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in Corsham is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 1 0 15
As % of all contract jobs in Corsham 0.25% - 2.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% - 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 15
10th Percentile - - £494
25th Percentile £588 - £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.24%
75th Percentile £613 - £688
90th Percentile - - £700
Wiltshire median daily rate £600 - £600
% change year-on-year - - -17.24%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Corsham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Corsham. 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 Corsham with a recognized job title 381 185 503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 86.05% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 136 373
10th Percentile £425 £461 £363
25th Percentile £508 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £713 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £694 £738
Wiltshire median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 16
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £60.00 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +40.35% -34.73%
75th Percentile - - £74.00
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £24.00 £60.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +263.64% -74.81%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Corsham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SOC Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Corsham.

SOC Engineer job vacancy trend in Corsham

SOC Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Corsham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SOC Engineer job vacancies in Corsham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SOC Engineer job vacancies in Corsham

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Corsham

For the 6 months to 28 March 2026, SOC Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Corsham region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Tanium
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Micro
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Windows

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Corsham 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) Tanium
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Micro
SOC Engineer jobs