SOC Manager Contracts in Manchester

Security Operations Centre Manager
North West > Manchester

The median Security Operations Centre Manager daily rate in Manchester is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 115 -
Rank change year-on-year +18 - -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Manager 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.065% 0.16% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 £688 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £775 £844 -
90th Percentile - £893 -
North West median daily rate £750 £725 -
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,464 1,835 2,502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.75% 96.63% 97.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,368 1,979
10th Percentile £313 £313 £213
25th Percentile £400 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £575
90th Percentile £691 £663 £650
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +10.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 59 61
10th Percentile £12.02 £14.20 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.10 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +100.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £60.94 £48.13 £23.53
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.64 £20.25
% change year-on-year -13.87% +51.35% +12.47%

SOC Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Manager in Manchester

SOC Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for SOC Manager in Manchester

SOC Manager Skill Set
Top 13 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 Manchester region featuring SOC Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Sophos
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Contingency Planning
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response

SOC Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (100.00%) Firewall
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Contingency Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (100.00%) Sophos