Security Operations Centre Contract Job Trends 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 23 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 322 364
Rank change year-on-year -80 +42 +67
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 35 50 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.37% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.48% 0.99% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 35 25
10th Percentile £469 £318 £303
25th Percentile £500 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £588 £775 £725
90th Percentile £625 £783 £783
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -2.04%

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 7,297 5,042 5,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.82% 37.07% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,570 3,316 4,006
10th Percentile £354 £337 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £738
90th Percentile £800 £828 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 111 104
10th Percentile £18.82 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £21.95
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £30.14
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -2.12% -13.89%
75th Percentile £60.75 £45.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £85.50 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.95 £41.50
% change year-on-year +33.43% -20.61% +5.29%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in London

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations Centre in London over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations Centre in London

Security Operations Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Operations Centre.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Operations Centre

Security Operations Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.57%) OCI
4 3 (8.57%) SaaS
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.86%) IaaS
6 1 (2.86%) PaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) Network Security
2 5 (14.29%) Firewall
3 3 (8.57%) DNS
3 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.71%) 4G
4 2 (5.71%) DHCP
4 2 (5.71%) LAN
4 2 (5.71%) VPN
4 2 (5.71%) WAN
4 2 (5.71%) Wireless
5 1 (2.86%) HTTP
5 1 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.86%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
General
1 11 (31.43%) Public Sector
2 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Finance
5 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Legal
6 1 (2.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Analyst
2 15 (42.86%) SOC Analyst
3 14 (40.00%) Security Analyst
4 11 (31.43%) Operations Analyst
4 11 (31.43%) Security Operations Analyst
5 6 (17.14%) Senior
6 5 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 5 (14.29%) Security Manager
7 4 (11.43%) Information Manager
7 4 (11.43%) Information Security Manager
8 3 (8.57%) Security Officer
8 3 (8.57%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) Lead
9 2 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) SOC Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) Splunk Engineer
10 1 (2.86%) SOC Consultant
10 1 (2.86%) SOC Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
1 4 (11.43%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.57%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.71%) CESG
3 2 (5.71%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Windows
2 5 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 24 (68.57%) Cybersecurity
3 22 (62.86%) SIEM
4 20 (57.14%) Incident Response
5 11 (31.43%) Cloud Security
5 11 (31.43%) Vulnerability Management
6 10 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 7 (20.00%) Information Security
7 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 7 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 6 (17.14%) Incident Management
8 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 5 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
9 5 (14.29%) Service Delivery
9 5 (14.29%) SOAR
9 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (14.29%) Threat Detection
9 5 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) Search Processing Language
2 3 (8.57%) Python
3 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) C
4 1 (2.86%) Groovy
4 1 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.86%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 19 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 16 (45.71%) SC Cleared
3 12 (34.29%) DV Cleared
4 11 (31.43%) CISSP
5 7 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (20.00%) CISM
6 6 (17.14%) CompTIA CySA+
6 6 (17.14%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (14.29%) GCIA
7 5 (14.29%) GCIH
8 4 (11.43%) CCSP
8 4 (11.43%) GIAC
9 3 (8.57%) GSEC
9 3 (8.57%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (5.71%) CCNA
10 2 (5.71%) CCNP
10 2 (5.71%) CEH
10 2 (5.71%) CESG Certified Professional
11 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (31.43%) NCSC
2 3 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.57%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (5.71%) GDPR
3 2 (5.71%) NIST
4 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.86%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) FortiGate
1 2 (5.71%) QRadar
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (42.86%) Splunk
2 10 (28.57%) CrowdStrike
2 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 5 (14.29%) Qualys
4 3 (8.57%) Oracle
5 2 (5.71%) Cribl.io
5 2 (5.71%) Tenable
6 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow