SOC Engineer Contracts in England

Security Operations Centre Engineer
UK > England

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 600 766
Rank change year-on-year +108 +166 -139
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 48 55 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.11% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.12% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 44 9
10th Percentile £507 £470 £411
25th Percentile £553 £622 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £688 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +30.95% +15.07%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £563
90th Percentile £705 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £615 £688 £525
% change year-on-year -10.55% +30.95% +15.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £640
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Engineer in England

SOC Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SOC Engineer in England

SOC Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Engineer in England

SOC Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOC Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for SOC Engineer in England

SOC Engineer
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 SOC Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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 +26 22 £600 -17.24%
London +87 14 £650 -7.14% 5
Midlands +36 6 £615 -10.55% 1
West Midlands +24 6 £615 -10.55%
South East +22 5 £590 +25.53%
North of England +17 1 £600 +33.33% 3
North West +6 1 £600 +33.33% 1
SOC Engineer
UK

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, SOC Engineer 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 England region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (72.92%) SIEM
2 31 (64.58%) Security Cleared
3 30 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
3 30 (62.50%) Security Operations
4 25 (52.08%) Incident Response
5 23 (47.92%) Security Operations Centre
6 18 (37.50%) SC Cleared
7 17 (35.42%) DV Cleared
8 16 (33.33%) SOAR
9 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
9 15 (31.25%) Splunk
10 14 (29.17%) Analytics
11 13 (27.08%) Degree
11 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
12 11 (22.92%) CISSP
12 11 (22.92%) Azure
13 10 (20.83%) SANS
14 9 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
14 9 (18.75%) Security Posture
15 8 (16.67%) CSOC
15 8 (16.67%) AWS
15 8 (16.67%) Time Management
15 8 (16.67%) Use Case
16 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
16 7 (14.58%) Threat Detection
16 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
16 7 (14.58%) Cloud Security
17 6 (12.50%) Cloud Native
17 6 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
17 6 (12.50%) Palo Alto

SOC Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.92%) Azure
2 8 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) Firewall
2 4 (8.33%) Network Security
3 1 (2.08%) Internet
3 1 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.08%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) Regular Expression
2 1 (2.08%) .NET
2 1 (2.08%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 23 (47.92%) Security Operations Centre
2 9 (18.75%) Security Posture
3 8 (16.67%) CSOC
4 6 (12.50%) Cloud Native
5 5 (10.42%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (8.33%) Public Cloud
7 3 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (4.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (4.17%) Taxonomies
9 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
9 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (72.92%) SIEM
2 30 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 30 (62.50%) Security Operations
3 25 (52.08%) Incident Response
4 16 (33.33%) SOAR
5 14 (29.17%) Analytics
6 8 (16.67%) Time Management
6 8 (16.67%) Use Case
7 7 (14.58%) Cloud Security
7 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (14.58%) Threat Detection
8 6 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (10.42%) Computer Science
9 5 (10.42%) Log Analytics
9 5 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (10.42%) Service Delivery
9 5 (10.42%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 4 (8.33%) Digital Strategy
10 4 (8.33%) Incident Management
10 4 (8.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
1 5 (10.42%) Python
2 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.08%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 31 (64.58%) Security Cleared
2 18 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 17 (35.42%) DV Cleared
4 13 (27.08%) Degree
5 11 (22.92%) CISSP
6 10 (20.83%) SANS
7 6 (12.50%) GIAC
8 5 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (8.33%) CEH
9 4 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (4.17%) BC Cleared
10 2 (4.17%) CASP
10 2 (4.17%) CREST Certified
10 2 (4.17%) GCED
10 2 (4.17%) GSEC
10 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (2.08%) CCNA
11 1 (2.08%) CCNP
11 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (8.33%) NCSC
1 4 (8.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) CSIRT
1 4 (8.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 1 (2.08%) Ansible
2 1 (2.08%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) Splunk
2 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 4 (8.33%) LogRhythm
4 4 (8.33%) TippingPoint
5 3 (6.25%) Trend Micro
6 2 (4.17%) Citrix
7 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.08%) Carbon Black
7 1 (2.08%) Dell
7 1 (2.08%) HP
7 1 (2.08%) Qualys
7 1 (2.08%) Veracode