SOC Manager Contracts in London

Security Operations Centre Manager
England > London

The median Security Operations Centre Manager daily rate in London is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 390 488
Rank change year-on-year +39 +98 +102
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Manager 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.006% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.006% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £593 - £600
25th Percentile £638 £738 £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £775 £718
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +8.01% -10.31%
75th Percentile £813 £813 £763
90th Percentile £858 - -
England median daily rate £575 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -14.81% -6.90% +11.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

SOC Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Manager in London

SOC Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SOC Manager in London

SOC Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Manager in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Manager in London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SOC Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Insurtech
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (50.00%) Azure

SOC Manager 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Insurtech
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Trend Analysis
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft