CSOC Contracts in London

Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CSOC in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSOC over the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 395 484
Rank change year-on-year +57 +89 +90
Contract jobs citing CSOC 13 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.011% 0.020%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 0.034% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile £526 £703 £586
25th Percentile £555 £706 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £713 £675
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +22.73%
75th Percentile £775 £719 £763
90th Percentile £783 £723 -
England median daily rate £560 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -13.85% +4.00% +8.70%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,386 5,840 9,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.92% 33.52% 36.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,963 4,128 6,686
10th Percentile £336 £313 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £744
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £535 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 149 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.49 £18.74
25th Percentile £22.27 £18.79 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -22.86% -19.54%
75th Percentile £49.00 £50.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £85.66
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.25 £22.16
% change year-on-year -3.80% +59.07% -17.87%

CSOC
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing CSOC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for CSOC in London

CSOC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSOC in London.

Daily rate trend for CSOC in London

CSOC
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSOC in London over the 6 months to 25 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CSOC in London

CSOC
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSOC within the London region over the 6 months to 25 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +16 2 £750 +3.45% 2
South London - 1 £750 - 1
CSOC
England

CSOC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (76.92%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (76.92%) Amazon S3
2 10 (76.92%) Amazon SQS
2 10 (76.92%) SaaS
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
General
1 9 (69.23%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Military
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Architect
1 10 (76.92%) Security Architect
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Security Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Implementation Specialist
2 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Project Manager
2 1 (7.69%) SIEM Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Software Delivery Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Software Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 10 (76.92%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (76.92%) Security Operations
2 10 (76.92%) SIEM
2 10 (76.92%) Use Case
3 9 (69.23%) SOAR
4 2 (15.38%) RBAC
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
5 1 (7.69%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (7.69%) Software Delivery
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.69%) Validation
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Splunk
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft