Security Operations Centre Contract Job Trends 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 26 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.42% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £540 - -

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 361 192 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 37.60% 37.94% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 115 126
10th Percentile £350 £328 £302
25th Percentile £463 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £600 £566 £582
90th Percentile £675 £608 £619
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -7.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 35
10th Percentile £17.26 £36.81 -
25th Percentile £18.71 £44.81 £12.15
Median hourly rate £31.65 £62.25 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.16% +361.11% -33.33%
75th Percentile £43.96 £82.45 £15.19
90th Percentile - £92.11 £17.06
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.72 £32.81 £13.50
% change year-on-year -18.56% +143.04% -33.33%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Operations Centre relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in Leeds

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Security Operations Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Security Operations Centre

Security Operations Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SOC Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) SOAR
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Rapid7