Security Operations Centre Contract Job Trends in Maidenhead

Security Operations Centre
Berkshire > Maidenhead

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in Maidenhead. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 9 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Maidenhead 4.55% 4.17% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.29% 5.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Berkshire median daily rate £446 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -18.91% +2.33% +34.38%

All Generic Skills
Maidenhead

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 Maidenhead.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7 18 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Maidenhead 31.82% 75.00% 56.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 13
10th Percentile £526 - £221
25th Percentile £566 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +40.00% -43.40%
75th Percentile £716 - £438
90th Percentile £759 - £548
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £21.00
75th Percentile £18.75 - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +34.97% +44.69% -39.29%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Maidenhead

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

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in Maidenhead

Security Operations Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Maidenhead 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 1 (100.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle