CSOC Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)
South East > Hampshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CSOC in contract job vacancies in Hampshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSOC over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CSOC 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.059% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £589 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 - -
75th Percentile £616 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £603 £544 £278
% change year-on-year +10.86% +95.50% -30.50%

All Generic Skills
Hampshire

CSOC 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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 431 224 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 25.32% 28.72% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 143 268
10th Percentile £311 £313 £400
25th Percentile £454 £423 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -5.17% +10.48%
75th Percentile £625 £616 £673
90th Percentile £735 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £503 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.50% - -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 22 69
10th Percentile £15.72 £32.94 £13.85
25th Percentile £26.00 £33.05 £35.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £50.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -23.50% -12.82% +1.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.81 £61.30
90th Percentile £66.00 £63.38 £71.00
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £37.44 £54.00
% change year-on-year +60.25% -30.66% -0.68%

CSOC
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CSOC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

CSOC job vacancy trend in Hampshire

CSOC
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing CSOC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing CSOC

CSOC
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSOC within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Portsmouth - 1 £603 - 1
CSOC
South East

CSOC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Tanium
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Micro
1 1 (100.00%) Tripwire