Security Operations Centre Contracts in England

Security Operations Centre
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 424 488
Rank change year-on-year +25 +64 +168
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 97 129 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.10% 1.14% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 85 122
10th Percentile £325 £410 £378
25th Percentile £463 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -2.04% -1.21%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £738
90th Percentile - £775 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £606
% change year-on-year -4.17% -0.99% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 1
10th Percentile £25.02 - -
25th Percentile £29.51 - -
Median hourly rate £47.44 £11.25 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year +321.69% -65.59% -
75th Percentile £81.01 - -
90th Percentile £82.48 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.44 £11.25 £32.69
% change year-on-year +321.69% -65.59% -

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,837 11,352 15,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.63% 30.57% 33.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,647 7,308 10,973
10th Percentile £305 £280 £313
25th Percentile £408 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 840 524
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.23 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.81 £37.00 £23.65
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% +56.48% -10.77%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.97
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.50 £77.13
UK median hourly rate £30.90 £35.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year -13.32% +58.44% -16.60%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in England

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in England

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations Centre in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations Centre in England

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Centre in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Operations Centre in England

Security Operations Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Operations Centre in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Operations Centre in England

Security Operations Centre
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 Security Operations Centre within the England region over the 6 months to 30 June 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 +74 47 £575 - 44
East of England +30 17 £600 -7.69% 33
South East +63 15 £550 - 45
North West +17 7 £750 +25.00% 18
North of England +12 7 £750 +25.00% 41
South West -11 6 £388 -32.61% 20
Midlands -10 1 - - 28
West Midlands -13 1 - - 17
Security Operations Centre
UK

Security Operations Centre
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.09%) CMS
1 3 (3.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.77%) AWS
2 24 (24.74%) SaaS
3 22 (22.68%) Amazon EC2
3 22 (22.68%) Amazon S3
4 20 (20.62%) Azure
5 19 (19.59%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (5.15%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (4.12%) GCP
7 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.03%) OCI
8 1 (1.03%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.56%) Network Security
2 17 (17.53%) Firewall
3 12 (12.37%) DNS
4 7 (7.22%) FTP
4 7 (7.22%) HTTP
4 7 (7.22%) SMTP
4 7 (7.22%) SSL
5 6 (6.19%) TCP/IP
5 6 (6.19%) VPN
6 5 (5.15%) 4G
6 5 (5.15%) DHCP
6 5 (5.15%) LAN
6 5 (5.15%) WAN
6 5 (5.15%) Wireless
7 3 (3.09%) Internet
7 3 (3.09%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (3.09%) MPLS
8 2 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Git
1 2 (2.06%) JIRA
General
1 22 (22.68%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.59%) Public Sector
3 17 (17.53%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.15%) Finance
5 5 (5.15%) Military
6 4 (4.12%) Legal
6 4 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.09%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.06%) Law
9 1 (1.03%) Banking
9 1 (1.03%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (29.90%) Analyst
1 29 (29.90%) Architect
2 27 (27.84%) Security Architect
3 25 (25.77%) SOC Analyst
4 9 (9.28%) Senior
5 6 (6.19%) Consultant
6 5 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Lead
6 5 (5.15%) Security Analyst
6 5 (5.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) SOC Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Junior
8 3 (3.09%) Junior Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Operations Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Security Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Security Operations Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) SOC Consultant
9 2 (2.06%) Network Engineer
9 2 (2.06%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.22%) LDAP
2 2 (2.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (30.93%) CSOC
2 25 (25.77%) Onboarding
3 20 (20.62%) Cyber Threat
4 16 (16.49%) Security Posture
5 10 (10.31%) Management Information System
6 6 (6.19%) Cyberattack
7 5 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (4.12%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (4.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (4.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (3.09%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (2.06%) Client/Server
10 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
10 2 (2.06%) PKI
11 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (1.03%) Reinsurance
11 1 (1.03%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.46%) Windows
2 7 (7.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (98.97%) Security Operations
2 61 (62.89%) Cybersecurity
3 59 (60.82%) SIEM
4 41 (42.27%) Incident Response
5 28 (28.87%) SOAR
6 26 (26.80%) Use Case
7 24 (24.74%) Threat Intelligence
8 23 (23.71%) Threat Detection
9 19 (19.59%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 19 (19.59%) Information Security
10 17 (17.53%) Security Monitoring
11 16 (16.49%) Vulnerability Management
12 15 (15.46%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 14 (14.43%) Incident Management
14 11 (11.34%) Risk Management
14 11 (11.34%) Roadmaps
15 9 (9.28%) Mentoring
16 8 (8.25%) Cloud Security
16 8 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 8 (8.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.28%) Python
2 8 (8.25%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.12%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (2.06%) Bash
5 1 (1.03%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 48 (49.48%) Security Cleared
2 42 (43.30%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.53%) CISSP
4 10 (10.31%) CISM
5 9 (9.28%) DV Cleared
6 8 (8.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 8 (8.25%) GCIA
7 7 (7.22%) GCIH
8 6 (6.19%) GIAC
9 4 (4.12%) CCNA
9 4 (4.12%) CEH
9 4 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (4.12%) OSCP
10 3 (3.09%) CCNP
10 3 (3.09%) GCFA
11 2 (2.06%) CISA
11 2 (2.06%) Degree
12 1 (1.03%) CCSP
12 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (1.03%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.43%) NIST
2 13 (13.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (9.28%) GDPR
4 7 (7.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (6.19%) PCI DSS
6 5 (5.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (3.09%) COBIT
7 3 (3.09%) GRC
8 2 (2.06%) ISO 9001
8 2 (2.06%) NCSC
8 2 (2.06%) NIST 800
9 1 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (1.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.15%) FortiGate
2 4 (4.12%) QRadar
3 1 (1.03%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (1.03%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (40.21%) Splunk
2 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.12%) Darktrace
3 4 (4.12%) LogRhythm
4 3 (3.09%) Cisco
4 3 (3.09%) FireEye
5 2 (2.06%) Aruba
5 2 (2.06%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.06%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.03%) Google
6 1 (1.03%) IronPort
6 1 (1.03%) Kenna
6 1 (1.03%) Okta
6 1 (1.03%) Symantec
6 1 (1.03%) Varonis
6 1 (1.03%) VMware