SOC Engineer Contracts in London

Security Operations Centre Engineer
England > London

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 484 598
Rank change year-on-year +109 +114 -137
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 14 16 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.079% 0.059% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.062% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 4
10th Percentile £350 £578 £504
25th Percentile £444 £625 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +30.95% +31.25%
75th Percentile £725 £744 £538
90th Percentile - £768 -
England median daily rate £600 £688 £525
% change year-on-year -12.73% +30.95% +23.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured SOC Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Engineer in London

SOC Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SOC Engineer in London

SOC Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Engineer in London

SOC Engineer
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 SOC Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 +43 4 £650 -8.77%
SOC Engineer
England

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, SOC Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) CISSP
1 9 (64.29%) SIEM
2 7 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 7 (50.00%) Splunk
3 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 4 (28.57%) Python
4 4 (28.57%) SOAR
4 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 4 (28.57%) CSIRT
4 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
5 3 (21.43%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (14.29%) Threat Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 2 (14.29%) Threat Detection
6 2 (14.29%) Event Correlation
6 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
6 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 2 (14.29%) GIAC
6 2 (14.29%) Information Security
6 2 (14.29%) CEH
6 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 2 (14.29%) Degree
6 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 1 (7.14%) Qualys
7 1 (7.14%) Finance

SOC Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Internet
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) SIEM
2 7 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 4 (28.57%) SOAR
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 2 (14.29%) Event Correlation
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 2 (14.29%) Information Security
5 2 (14.29%) Threat Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) Threat Detection
5 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 4 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) CISSP
2 2 (14.29%) CEH
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) GIAC
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Splunk
2 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Qualys
4 1 (7.14%) Veracode