SOC Manager Contracts in England

Security Operations Centre Manager
UK > England

The median Security Operations Centre Manager daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 523 634
Rank change year-on-year +43 +111 +124
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Manager 5 19 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.051% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.055% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 15
10th Percentile £513 £570 -
25th Percentile £531 £638 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% -6.90% +11.54%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £794
90th Percentile £828 £783 £874
UK median daily rate £575 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -14.81% -6.90% +3.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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 +39 2 £725 -6.45% 4
South East +46 1 £500 -23.08% 2
Midlands +20 1 - - 2
North of England +19 1 - - 1
North West +17 1 - - 1
West Midlands +12 1 - - 2
SOC Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Protective Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Insurtech
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) Application Security
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Trend Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) Local Government
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) IT Governance

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Local Government
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Protective Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) BCP
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) IT Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Trend Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk