SOAR Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SOAR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOAR 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.24% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £475
75th Percentile £388 - £513
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +7.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 735 639 714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.78% 83.97% 84.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 391 526
10th Percentile £218 £267 £209
25th Percentile £350 £356 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £485
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -8.15% +2.00%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £600
90th Percentile £631 £613 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 28 50
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £12.90
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.01
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +5.65% +25.76%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.19
90th Percentile - £51.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

SOAR job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SOAR
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SOAR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SOAR

SOAR
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £375 - 2
SOAR
England

SOAR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Tenable