CSOC Contracts in England

Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CSOC in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CSOC over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 608 764
Rank change year-on-year +119 +156 -187
Contract jobs citing CSOC 54 40 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.079% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.47% 0.24% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 26 9
10th Percentile - £488 £525
25th Percentile £463 £560 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +21.05%
75th Percentile £700 £745 £625
90th Percentile - £763 £655
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £575
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +15.00%

All Generic Skills
England

CSOC is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,457 16,977 24,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.78% 33.64% 33.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,496 11,796 17,103
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 822 591 644
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%

CSOC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CSOC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CSOC in England

CSOC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSOC in England.

Daily rate trend for CSOC in England

CSOC
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSOC in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CSOC in England

CSOC
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
South West +53 46 £663 +6.00%
South East +21 5 £81 -79.75% 1
London +104 2 £713 +5.56%
East of England - 1 - -
CSOC
UK

CSOC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (3.70%) Azure
2 1 (1.85%) AWS
2 1 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) Firewall
2 2 (3.70%) Network Security
2 2 (3.70%) VPN
General
1 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
2 6 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (1.85%) Back Office
4 1 (1.85%) Banking
4 1 (1.85%) Electronics
4 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.85%) Marketing
4 1 (1.85%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (64.81%) Analyst
2 34 (62.96%) SOC Analyst
3 8 (14.81%) SOC Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Security Analyst
4 5 (9.26%) SOC Manager
5 4 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Lead
6 2 (3.70%) Network Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Network Project Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.70%) SIEM Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Technical Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Technical Project Manager
7 1 (1.85%) Consultant
7 1 (1.85%) IT Operations Analyst
7 1 (1.85%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (1.85%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 47 (87.04%) Security Operations Centre
2 15 (27.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.85%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (90.74%) Security Operations
3 39 (72.22%) Incident Response
4 32 (59.26%) Use Case
5 31 (57.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (50.00%) SIEM
7 25 (46.30%) Analytics
8 22 (40.74%) Time Management
9 18 (33.33%) ITIL
9 18 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 17 (31.48%) Information Security
11 16 (29.63%) Threat Intelligence
12 9 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
13 3 (5.56%) Agile
14 2 (3.70%) Business Analysis
14 2 (3.70%) Migration
14 2 (3.70%) Project Management
14 2 (3.70%) Risk Management
14 2 (3.70%) Stakeholder Management
14 2 (3.70%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 40 (74.07%) DV Cleared
1 40 (74.07%) Security Cleared
2 24 (44.44%) SANS
3 23 (42.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (27.78%) GDPR
1 15 (27.78%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (3.70%) AlgoSec
1 2 (3.70%) CheckPoint
1 2 (3.70%) Juniper
2 1 (1.85%) Darktrace
2 1 (1.85%) FireEye
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.85%) SAP