Security Operations Centre Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Security Operations Centre
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in Farnborough. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 1.16% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile £595 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £513 £388 £800
% change year-on-year +32.26% -51.56% -

All Generic Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 44 28 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 25.58% 32.56% 29.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 19 15
10th Percentile £340 £350 £391
25th Percentile £450 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -8.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £584 £700 £653
90th Percentile £646 £761 £663
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -4.55% +9.78% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.88
25th Percentile - - £20.31
Median hourly rate - - £26.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -47.50%
75th Percentile - - £32.81
90th Percentile - - £35.63
Hampshire median hourly rate £23.75 £33.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -29.63% -38.64% +15.79%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Operations Centre relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Security Operations Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Security Operations Centre

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations Centre in Farnborough over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations Centre in Farnborough

Security Operations Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIH
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001