Security Operations Centre Contracts in London

Security Operations Centre
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 366 443
Rank change year-on-year +38 +77 +107
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 25 25 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.55% 0.42% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 36
10th Percentile £313 £378 £521
25th Percentile £381 £444 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £638 £681
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% -6.40% +9.85%
75th Percentile £588 £784 £788
90th Percentile £619 £800 £825
England median daily rate £544 £615 £613
% change year-on-year -11.59% +0.41% -1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £32.69
England median hourly rate £80.68 £11.25 £32.69
% change year-on-year +617.11% -65.59% +45.13%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in London

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in London

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations Centre in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations Centre in London

Security Operations Centre
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 Security Operations Centre within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +4 2 £550 -26.67% 7
Security Operations Centre
England

Security Operations Centre
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:

Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) Firewall
2 6 (24.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (20.00%) DHCP
4 4 (16.00%) Network Security
4 4 (16.00%) VPN
5 3 (12.00%) 4G
5 3 (12.00%) DNS
5 3 (12.00%) LAN
5 3 (12.00%) WAN
5 3 (12.00%) Wireless
6 2 (8.00%) HTTP
6 2 (8.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (8.00%) SMTP
7 1 (4.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Legal
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Analyst
2 10 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Security Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Security Operations Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) SOC Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Splunk Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Splunk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (16.00%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (16.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (8.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (8.00%) Cyberattack
3 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (4.00%) Insider Threat
4 1 (4.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 17 (68.00%) Incident Response
2 17 (68.00%) SIEM
3 9 (36.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 8 (32.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 7 (28.00%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (28.00%) Incident Management
6 6 (24.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (24.00%) Threat Detection
7 5 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 4 (16.00%) Business Continuity
8 4 (16.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
8 4 (16.00%) Security Monitoring
9 3 (12.00%) Digital Forensics
9 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (12.00%) Proactive Management
9 3 (12.00%) Risk Management
9 3 (12.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) GCIH
1 5 (20.00%) GIAC
1 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) CCNA
2 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (16.00%) GCIA
3 3 (12.00%) CCNP
3 3 (12.00%) CISSP
3 3 (12.00%) GCFA
4 2 (8.00%) CEH
4 2 (8.00%) CISM
4 2 (8.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) CCSP
5 1 (4.00%) CISA
5 1 (4.00%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (4.00%) GSEC
5 1 (4.00%) OSCP
5 1 (4.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (12.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) GRC
2 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (8.00%) QRadar
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Splunk
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) LogRhythm
3 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) Veracode
3 1 (4.00%) VMware