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 in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSOC over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 486 609
Rank change year-on-year +46 +123 +154
Contract jobs citing CSOC 40 52 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.14% 0.086%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 0.47% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 35 26
10th Percentile £517 - £488
25th Percentile £534 £463 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £631 £700 £745
90th Percentile £775 - £763
UK median daily rate £560 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -13.85% +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.34 - -
Median hourly rate £80.68 - -
75th Percentile £81.56 - -
90th Percentile £81.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.68 - -

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,152 11,176 16,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.20% 30.76% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,327 7,323 11,208
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 821 571
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.97 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £34.21 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +52.15% -15.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £82.30 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.29 £32.12 £22.08
% change year-on-year -2.58% +45.45% -19.71%

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 23 May 2025.

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 23 May 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
London +67 13 £750 +5.26% 15
South East +56 8 £525 +548.15% 13
East of England +37 8 £600 -
West Midlands - 8 £551 -
Midlands - 8 £551 -
North West - 1 £750 -
North of England - 1 £750 -
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 14 (35.00%) AWS
2 11 (27.50%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (27.50%) Amazon S3
2 11 (27.50%) SaaS
3 10 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (15.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) DNS
1 8 (20.00%) FTP
1 8 (20.00%) HTTP
1 8 (20.00%) Network Security
1 8 (20.00%) SMTP
1 8 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Data Lake
General
1 14 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.50%) Law
6 2 (5.00%) Military
7 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Architect
1 11 (27.50%) Security Architect
2 9 (22.50%) Analyst
2 9 (22.50%) SOC Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Lead
4 2 (5.00%) Security Analyst
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Implementation Specialist
5 1 (2.50%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared Project Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Security Specialist
5 1 (2.50%) Software Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Software Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Subject Matter Expert
5 1 (2.50%) Technical Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) LDAP
2 6 (15.00%) JSON
2 6 (15.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (52.50%) Security Operations Centre
2 20 (50.00%) Onboarding
3 15 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (17.50%) Cyberattack
5 6 (15.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (15.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.50%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Linux
2 10 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (25.00%) VMS
2 10 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (87.50%) SIEM
2 28 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (67.50%) Security Operations
4 12 (30.00%) Incident Response
5 11 (27.50%) Use Case
6 10 (25.00%) Event Correlation
6 10 (25.00%) SOAR
7 8 (20.00%) Information Management
7 8 (20.00%) Threat Detection
8 7 (17.50%) Information Security
9 6 (15.00%) Analytics
9 6 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (15.00%) Behavioural Analytics
9 6 (15.00%) Machine Learning
9 6 (15.00%) Network Packet Capture
9 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (15.00%) Process Improvement
9 6 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
10 2 (5.00%) Protective Monitoring
10 2 (5.00%) RBAC
Qualifications
1 30 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (67.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (15.00%) GIAC
5 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 21 (52.50%) Splunk
2 10 (25.00%) Cisco
2 10 (25.00%) F5
2 10 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 10 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 10 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 10 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 10 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft