SOAR Contracts in Hertfordshire

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring SOAR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOAR over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - 73
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SOAR 11 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 2.47% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £775 - -
East of England median daily rate £665 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £45.00 - -
25th Percentile £47.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

SOAR falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hertfordshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 406 594 652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 91.24% 86.84% 87.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 185 363
10th Percentile £267 £213 £260
25th Percentile £438 £306 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -25.58% +7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £675
90th Percentile £675 £650 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 245 134
10th Percentile £16.92 £17.11 £17.73
25th Percentile £28.03 £38.12 £49.00
Median hourly rate £51.25 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £66.88 £63.75 £71.88
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £34.37 £42.75 £19.81
% change year-on-year -19.61% +115.80% -3.37%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing SOAR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in Hertfordshire

SOAR
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SOAR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SOAR

SOAR
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAR in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOAR in Hertfordshire

SOAR
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SOAR in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SOAR in Hertfordshire

SOAR
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 21 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stevenage - 8 £680 -
Welwyn Garden City - 2 £613 - 3
SOAR
East of England

SOAR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) 1Password
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
1 8 (72.73%) FTP
1 8 (72.73%) HTTP
1 8 (72.73%) Network Security
1 8 (72.73%) SMTP
1 8 (72.73%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Analyst
1 8 (72.73%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Cyberattack
2 7 (63.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (63.64%) CSOC
2 7 (63.64%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (63.64%) Management Information System
2 7 (63.64%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (81.82%) Information Security
2 9 (81.82%) SIEM
3 8 (72.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (72.73%) Incident Response
3 8 (72.73%) Network Packet Capture
3 8 (72.73%) Root Cause Analysis
3 8 (72.73%) Runbook
3 8 (72.73%) Security Operations
3 8 (72.73%) Threat Detection
4 7 (63.64%) Analytics
4 7 (63.64%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (63.64%) Behavioural Analytics
4 7 (63.64%) Information Management
4 7 (63.64%) Machine Learning
4 7 (63.64%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (9.09%) Use Case
5 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Sun
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Netskope
2 1 (9.09%) Rapid7