SOC Manager Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Security Operations Centre Manager
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Security Operations Centre Manager daily rate in Gloucester is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026.

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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Manager 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 2.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £444 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile £498 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Gloucester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucester. 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 Gloucester with a recognized job title 93 85 77
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 96.59% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 76 60
10th Percentile £205 £125 £324
25th Percentile £233 £227 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £628
90th Percentile £728 £725 £706
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile - £21.04 £18.90
25th Percentile - £21.89 -
Median hourly rate £51.21 £23.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.79% +10.95% -61.99%
75th Percentile £52.61 £24.71 £28.75
90th Percentile £60.69 £25.56 £32.50
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £32.50 £67.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -51.85% +80.00% -47.55%

SOC Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

SOC Manager job vacancy trend in Gloucester

SOC Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SOC Manager job vacancies in Gloucester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SOC Manager job vacancies in Gloucester

SOC Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester

For the 6 months to 2 May 2026, SOC Manager 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 Gloucester region featuring SOC Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) CASB
2 1 (50.00%) CCSK
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) CISA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis

SOC Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Purple Team
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSK
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft