SOC Analyst Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Security Operations Centre Analyst
England > East Midlands

The median Security Operations Centre Analyst daily rate in the East Midlands is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Analyst 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.12% - 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £337
25th Percentile £363 - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £388 - £531
90th Percentile - - £535
England median daily rate £506 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -11.96% - +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 775 709 801
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.50% 93.04% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 418 588
10th Percentile £192 £250 £204
25th Percentile £344 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -10.50% +2.70%
75th Percentile £520 £529 £588
90th Percentile £637 £600 £697
England median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.43% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 40 51
10th Percentile £16.17 £12.61 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.53 £14.89
Median hourly rate £21.25 £24.18 £17.95
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +34.75% +2.54%
75th Percentile £25.15 £44.49 £41.25
90th Percentile £25.56 £55.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +62.04%

SOC Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

SOC Analyst job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SOC Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SOC Analyst job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SOC Analyst job vacancies in the East Midlands

SOC Analyst
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 SOC Analyst within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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 - 1 £375 - 1
SOC Analyst
England

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Top 10 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 October 2025, SOC Analyst 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 Midlands region featuring SOC Analyst in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management

SOC Analyst Skill Set
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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable