SOC Analyst Contract Job Trends in Essex

Security Operations Centre Analyst
East of England > Essex

The median Security Operations Centre Analyst daily rate in Essex is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Analyst 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.29% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £680 £650
% change year-on-year -26.47% +4.62% +6.12%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 318 105 125
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 86.78% 96.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 56 56
10th Percentile £307 £175 £186
25th Percentile £353 £229 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £404 £350
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% +15.36% -33.08%
75th Percentile £580 £502 £505
90th Percentile £604 £550 £588
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 18 33
10th Percentile £15.99 £13.25 £20.50
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.19 £29.17
Median hourly rate £17.73 £31.33 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.42% -55.57% +8.46%
75th Percentile £29.04 £66.13 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £75.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £40.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +43.94%

SOC Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SOC Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

SOC Analyst job vacancy trend in Essex

SOC Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SOC Analyst job vacancies in Essex.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SOC Analyst job vacancies in Essex

SOC Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOC Analyst within the Essex region over the 6 months to 6 September 2026. 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
Harlow - 1 £425 - 2
SOC Analyst
East of England

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex

For the 6 months to 6 September 2026, SOC Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Essex region featuring SOC Analyst in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Insider Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft