SOC Engineer Contract Job Trends in East Kilbride

Security Operations Centre Engineer
South Lanarkshire > East Kilbride

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in East Kilbride is £610, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026.

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

All Contract IT Job Roles
East Kilbride

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in East Kilbride. 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.

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Kilbride

For the 6 months to 9 January 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 East Kilbride region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

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