Security Operations Centre Contracts in Leeds

Security Operations Centre
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 - 87
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.19% - 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% - 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £461 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.43%
75th Percentile £484 - £750
90th Percentile - - £780
West Yorkshire median daily rate £473 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%

All Generic Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 205 224 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 39.05% 28.00% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 128 252
10th Percentile £350 £288 £363
25th Percentile £425 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £604
90th Percentile £616 £619 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £528
% change year-on-year - -5.21% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 36 5
10th Percentile £36.81 - -
25th Percentile £44.81 £12.15 £18.50
Median hourly rate £62.25 £13.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +361.11% -36.65% -4.87%
75th Percentile £82.45 £15.19 -
90th Percentile £92.11 £18.89 £21.87
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.81 £13.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +143.04% -36.65% +0.28%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Security Operations Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in Leeds

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Centre in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in Leeds

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk