Security Operations Centre Contracts in Edinburgh

Security Operations Centre
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 73 89
Rank change year-on-year +8 +16 +34
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 2 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.31% 0.12% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.77% 0.34% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile - £563 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 £453
Median % change year-on-year - +27.07% +0.56%
75th Percentile - £588 £463
90th Percentile - - £526
Scotland median daily rate - £500 £453
% change year-on-year - +10.50% -21.30%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

Security Operations Centre 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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 259 298 429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.72% 34.69% 36.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 162 283
10th Percentile £193 £213 £182
25th Percentile £344 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £479
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.10% -4.20%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £493
% change year-on-year - -6.23% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 21 5
10th Percentile - £13.21 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.74 £18.13 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year +3.34% -14.72% -54.08%
75th Percentile £23.00 £24.18 £21.67
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £40.92
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £18.20 £15.25
% change year-on-year +9.73% +19.38% -65.15%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Security Operations Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in Edinburgh

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Centre in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in Edinburgh

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Event Correlation
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) GCFA
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
1 1 (50.00%) OSCP
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk