SOAR Contract Job Trends in London

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SOAR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 352 405
Rank change year-on-year +64 +53 +149
Contract jobs citing SOAR 73 27 34
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.19% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 18 30
10th Percentile £456 £500 £538
25th Percentile £488 £550 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £588 £640
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -8.20% +11.30%
75th Percentile £750 £635 £713
90th Percentile £775 £661 £991
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +7.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

SOAR falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,288 14,145 18,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.45% 89.29% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,086 9,142 13,599
10th Percentile £332 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 175 231
10th Percentile £18.03 £17.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.17 £21.63
Median hourly rate £30.50 £37.50 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% -4.87% -0.20%
75th Percentile £47.75 £57.50 £62.75
90th Percentile £64.95 £78.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SOAR job vacancy trend in London

SOAR
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SOAR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SOAR

SOAR
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAR in London over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOAR in London

SOAR
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 SOAR within the London region over the 6 months to 20 October 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 +10 6 £525 - 8
South London - 2 £750 -
East London - 1 - - 1
SOAR
England

SOAR
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (39.73%) AWS
2 21 (28.77%) Azure
3 19 (26.03%) Amazon EC2
3 19 (26.03%) Amazon S3
3 19 (26.03%) SaaS
4 18 (24.66%) Amazon SQS
5 13 (17.81%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (12.33%) GCP
7 4 (5.48%) Cloudflare
7 4 (5.48%) OpenDNS
8 3 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.37%) Amazon Macie
9 1 (1.37%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (20.55%) Firewall
2 2 (2.74%) Network Security
3 1 (1.37%) HTTP
3 1 (1.37%) tcpdump
3 1 (1.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.37%) Big Data
2 1 (1.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (4.11%) JIRA
2 2 (2.74%) Git
2 2 (2.74%) Metasploit
General
1 24 (32.88%) Public Sector
2 20 (27.40%) Social Skills
3 17 (23.29%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.96%) Finance
6 5 (6.85%) Military
7 4 (5.48%) Banking
8 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.74%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.74%) Retail
9 1 (1.37%) Legal
9 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (30.14%) Architect
2 21 (28.77%) Security Architect
3 18 (24.66%) Security Engineer
4 13 (17.81%) Analyst
5 12 (16.44%) Senior
6 11 (15.07%) Security Analyst
7 7 (9.59%) Operations Analyst
7 7 (9.59%) Security Operations Analyst
7 7 (9.59%) Senior Security Engineer
7 7 (9.59%) SOC Analyst
8 5 (6.85%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) SOC Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Consultant
10 3 (4.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 3 (4.11%) Lead
10 3 (4.11%) Security Consultant
10 3 (4.11%) SIEM Engineer
11 2 (2.74%) Cyber Threat Analyst
11 2 (2.74%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.85%) REST
2 3 (4.11%) YAML
3 2 (2.74%) Web Services
4 1 (1.37%) .NET
4 1 (1.37%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (42.47%) Security Operations Centre
2 25 (34.25%) Onboarding
3 19 (26.03%) CSOC
4 5 (6.85%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (6.85%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.74%) Clustering
6 2 (2.74%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.74%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.74%) PKI
6 2 (2.74%) STIX
6 2 (2.74%) YARA
7 1 (1.37%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.81%) Windows
2 9 (12.33%) Linux
3 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.37%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (86.30%) SIEM
2 47 (64.38%) Security Operations
3 43 (58.90%) Cybersecurity
4 32 (43.84%) Use Case
5 28 (38.36%) Incident Response
6 20 (27.40%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 14 (19.18%) Cloud Security
7 14 (19.18%) Threat Intelligence
8 13 (17.81%) Security Monitoring
9 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (15.07%) Threat Detection
11 9 (12.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 9 (12.33%) Information Security
12 7 (9.59%) Analytics
12 7 (9.59%) Vulnerability Management
13 6 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (6.85%) Hyperautomation
14 5 (6.85%) Platform Engineering
14 5 (6.85%) Threat Modelling
14 5 (6.85%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 25 (34.25%) Python
2 16 (21.92%) PowerShell
3 15 (20.55%) Bash
4 10 (13.70%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.74%) Java
6 1 (1.37%) C
6 1 (1.37%) C#
6 1 (1.37%) C++
6 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.37%) PHP
6 1 (1.37%) R
6 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (41.10%) Security Cleared
2 29 (39.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.59%) CISSP
4 5 (6.85%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (5.48%) CEH
6 3 (4.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.11%) GIAC
6 3 (4.11%) SSCP
7 2 (2.74%) GCFA
7 2 (2.74%) GCIA
7 2 (2.74%) GCIH
8 1 (1.37%) CISM
8 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.37%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.37%) Degree
8 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.55%) NIST
2 12 (16.44%) GDPR
3 11 (15.07%) HIPAA
4 6 (8.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (4.11%) NCSC
6 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.37%) GRC
6 1 (1.37%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.85%) Docker
2 4 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.48%) Snort
2 4 (5.48%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
1 5 (6.85%) Nessus
2 4 (5.48%) Nexpose
2 4 (5.48%) Suricata
3 2 (2.74%) Ansible
3 2 (2.74%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.37%) CSIRT
4 1 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.37%) QRadar
4 1 (1.37%) SCCM
4 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (56.16%) Splunk
2 19 (26.03%) Microsoft
3 13 (17.81%) Palo Alto
4 9 (12.33%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (8.22%) FireEye
5 6 (8.22%) ServiceNow
6 5 (6.85%) Carbon Black
6 5 (6.85%) Cisco
6 5 (6.85%) Google
7 4 (5.48%) Blue Coat
7 4 (5.48%) Oracle
7 4 (5.48%) Qualys
7 4 (5.48%) Salesforce
7 4 (5.48%) SAP
7 4 (5.48%) Zscaler
8 3 (4.11%) VMware
9 2 (2.74%) Intel
9 2 (2.74%) McAfee
9 2 (2.74%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.74%) Trend Micro