SOC Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hemel Hempstead

Security Operations Centre Engineer
Hertfordshire > Hemel Hempstead

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in Hemel Hempstead is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hemel Hempstead 4.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £650 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £700 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Hemel Hempstead

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hemel Hempstead. 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 Hemel Hempstead with a recognized job title 43 14 50
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 100.00% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 38
10th Percentile - £175 £343
25th Percentile £513 £372 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £725
90th Percentile £750 - £899
Hertfordshire median daily rate £510 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -2.86% +23.53% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
75th Percentile - - £21.38
90th Percentile - - £22.80
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -4.76%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hemel Hempstead

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

SOC Engineer job vacancy trend in Hemel Hempstead

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hemel Hempstead

For the 6 months to 3 April 2026, SOC Engineer 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 Hemel Hempstead region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Tech Ops

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hemel Hempstead 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 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk