SOC Analyst Contracts in the East of England

Security Operations Centre Analyst
England > East of England

The median Security Operations Centre Analyst daily rate in the East of England is £640, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 100 104
Rank change year-on-year +24 +4 +36
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Analyst 19 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.54% 0.60% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.78% 0.68% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 19
10th Percentile £586 - -
25th Percentile £601 £290 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +18.18% +91.30%
75th Percentile £666 - £631
90th Percentile £675 £684 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £45.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.68 - -
75th Percentile £83.05 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
England median hourly rate £80.68 £72.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +11.28% -3.33% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 1,069 1,623 1,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.77% 88.45% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 698 1,124
10th Percentile £190 £206 £200
25th Percentile £351 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £428 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.96% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £564 £600
90th Percentile £666 £638 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 562 277
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.22 £18.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £42.50 £43.90 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% +2.09% +120.51%
75th Percentile £67.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.00 £70.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -6.98% +68.63%

SOC Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured SOC Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Analyst in the East of England

SOC Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC Analyst in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for SOC Analyst in the East of England

SOC Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOC Analyst in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for SOC Analyst in the East of England

SOC Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SOC Analyst in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SOC Analyst in the East of England

SOC Analyst
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 SOC Analyst within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 July 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 +25 19 £640 -1.54% 11
SOC Analyst
England

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 16 July 2025, SOC Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring SOC Analyst in the job title.

1 18 (94.74%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (84.21%) Security Cleared
2 16 (84.21%) SC Cleared
2 16 (84.21%) Security Operations Centre
3 15 (78.95%) Security Operations
3 15 (78.95%) LDAP
3 15 (78.95%) SMTP
3 15 (78.95%) FTP
3 15 (78.95%) HTTP
3 15 (78.95%) DNS
3 15 (78.95%) SSL
4 14 (73.68%) Incident Response
4 14 (73.68%) Network Security
4 14 (73.68%) Cyber Threat
4 14 (73.68%) Cyberattack
5 13 (68.42%) Threat Detection
6 12 (63.16%) Network Packet Capture
7 11 (57.89%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
7 11 (57.89%) Information Security
7 11 (57.89%) SIEM
8 10 (52.63%) Information Management
8 10 (52.63%) CSOC
9 9 (47.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (47.37%) DV Cleared
9 9 (47.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (42.11%) Machine Learning
10 8 (42.11%) Analytics
10 8 (42.11%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (42.11%) Management Information System

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (78.95%) DNS
1 15 (78.95%) FTP
1 15 (78.95%) HTTP
1 15 (78.95%) SMTP
1 15 (78.95%) SSL
2 14 (73.68%) Network Security
General
1 11 (57.89%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Law
3 2 (10.53%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (78.95%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (84.21%) Security Operations Centre
2 14 (73.68%) Cyber Threat
2 14 (73.68%) Cyberattack
3 10 (52.63%) CSOC
4 9 (47.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (42.11%) Management Information System
6 3 (15.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (5.26%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (78.95%) Security Operations
3 14 (73.68%) Incident Response
4 13 (68.42%) Threat Detection
5 12 (63.16%) Network Packet Capture
6 11 (57.89%) Information Security
6 11 (57.89%) SIEM
7 10 (52.63%) Information Management
8 9 (47.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (42.11%) Analytics
9 8 (42.11%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (42.11%) Behavioural Analytics
9 8 (42.11%) Machine Learning
10 6 (31.58%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (31.58%) Runbook
10 6 (31.58%) SOAR
11 5 (26.32%) Threat Modelling
12 2 (10.53%) Security Monitoring
12 2 (10.53%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
1 6 (31.58%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (84.21%) SC Cleared
1 16 (84.21%) Security Cleared
2 9 (47.37%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) CISSP
3 2 (10.53%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (10.53%) GCIA
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Darktrace
1 3 (15.79%) FireEye
1 3 (15.79%) LogRhythm
1 3 (15.79%) Splunk
2 2 (10.53%) Sun
3 1 (5.26%) IronPort
3 1 (5.26%) Symantec