SOC Manager Contracts in England

Security Operations Centre Manager
UK > England

The median Security Operations Centre Manager daily rate in England is £688 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 640 754
Rank change year-on-year +115 +114 -152
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Manager 18 18 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.048% 0.035% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.037% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 24
10th Percentile £568 - £521
25th Percentile £622 £688 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +11.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £775 £784 £800
90th Percentile £786 £835 £915
UK median daily rate £663 £725 £675
% change year-on-year -8.62% +7.41% +17.39%

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 34,494 48,433 68,665
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,968 34,321 48,831
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,386 1,460 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £48.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.07
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

SOC Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Manager in England

SOC Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SOC Manager in England

SOC Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Manager in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Manager in England

SOC Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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 - 13 £600 -
Midlands +30 2 £713 -1.72%
West Midlands +24 2 £713 -1.72%
London +104 1 £775 +8.01%
North of England +34 1 £750 +3.45% 1
North West +21 1 £750 +3.45%
South East +14 1 £650 - 1
SOC Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, SOC Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (77.78%) Security Operations
3 13 (72.22%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (61.11%) SIEM
5 10 (55.56%) NIST
6 9 (50.00%) Information Security
6 9 (50.00%) Agile
6 9 (50.00%) Network Security
6 9 (50.00%) DV Cleared
6 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
6 9 (50.00%) Mentoring
6 9 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (44.44%) Cyber Defence
7 8 (44.44%) NIST 800
7 8 (44.44%) Military
7 8 (44.44%) Programme Management
7 8 (44.44%) CISM
7 8 (44.44%) CISSP
7 8 (44.44%) Security Architecture
8 7 (38.89%) Resource Management
9 6 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
9 6 (33.33%) Coaching
10 5 (27.78%) CSOC
11 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
12 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (16.67%) Firewall
13 2 (11.11%) Sophos
13 2 (11.11%) ITIL
13 2 (11.11%) Microsoft

SOC Manager 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 9 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Military
3 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (44.44%) Cyber Defence
3 5 (27.78%) CSOC
4 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (77.78%) Security Operations
3 11 (61.11%) SIEM
4 9 (50.00%) Agile
4 9 (50.00%) Information Security
4 9 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 8 (44.44%) Programme Management
5 8 (44.44%) Security Architecture
6 7 (38.89%) Resource Management
7 6 (33.33%) Coaching
7 6 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
9 2 (11.11%) Contingency Planning
9 2 (11.11%) ITIL
9 2 (11.11%) Security Testing
9 2 (11.11%) Threat Detection
9 2 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
9 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 1 (5.56%) Project Management
10 1 (5.56%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) CISM
2 8 (44.44%) CISSP
3 1 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.56%) CCSK
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (5.56%) GCIA
3 1 (5.56%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (55.56%) NIST
2 8 (44.44%) NIST 800
3 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.56%) GDPR
4 1 (5.56%) NCSC
4 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) Rapid7
1 2 (11.11%) Sophos