CSOC Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CSOC in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSOC over the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CSOC 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.51% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 - -
England median daily rate £593 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +3.04% +4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile £81.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 - £74.58

All Generic Skills
East of England

CSOC falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 511 389 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.59% 31.81% 33.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 177 324
10th Percentile £190 £256 £191
25th Percentile £338 £336 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -2.06% +4.86%
75th Percentile £621 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £697 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 53 88
10th Percentile £12.82 £23.65 £20.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £67.25 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.21 £38.54 £43.92
% change year-on-year -29.39% -12.26% +25.49%

CSOC
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

CSOC job vacancy trend in the East of England

CSOC
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CSOC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CSOC

CSOC
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CSOC in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CSOC in the East of England

CSOC
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSOC within the East of England region over the 6 months to 9 December 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
Hertfordshire - 8 £680 - 4
CSOC
England

CSOC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
1 8 (100.00%) FTP
1 8 (100.00%) HTTP
1 8 (100.00%) Network Security
1 8 (100.00%) SMTP
1 8 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 8 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Analyst
1 8 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 8 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 8 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 8 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 8 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) AI
1 8 (100.00%) Analytics
1 8 (100.00%) Behavioural Analytics
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 8 (100.00%) Information Management
1 8 (100.00%) Information Security
1 8 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 8 (100.00%) Network Packet Capture
1 8 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 8 (100.00%) SIEM
1 8 (100.00%) Threat Detection
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (87.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (87.50%) Runbook
2 7 (87.50%) SOAR
2 7 (87.50%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
1 7 (87.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared