SOC Engineer Contracts in Monmouthshire

Security Operations Centre Engineer
South Wales > Monmouthshire

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in Monmouthshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 August 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
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Monmouthshire 100.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
South Wales median daily rate £600 - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Monmouthshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Monmouthshire. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Monmouthshire with a recognized job title 1 2 3
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 -
South Wales median daily rate £381 £406 £475
% change year-on-year -6.10% -14.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.06
Median hourly rate - - £23.92
Median % change year-on-year - - +127.98%
75th Percentile - - £42.26
90th Percentile - - £52.15
South Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £25.48 £22.50
% change year-on-year -37.21% +13.24% +18.70%

SOC Engineer
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Monmouthshire

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 Monmouthshire region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Ebbw Vale - 1 £600 -
SOC Engineer
South Wales

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Monmouthshire

For the 6 months to 22 August 2025, 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 Monmouthshire region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Monmouthshire 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) logstash