Security Operations Centre Contracts in the North of England

Security Operations Centre
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 180 174
Rank change year-on-year +18 -6 +61
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 4 4 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% 0.085% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 0.32% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 29
10th Percentile £306 £555 £400
25th Percentile £447 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £613 £606
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% +1.07% -16.41%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £688
90th Percentile - £930 £780
England median daily rate £575 £633 £613
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.27% -1.21%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,041 1,243 1,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 31.13% 26.41% 30.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 753 1,119
10th Percentile £222 £263 £285
25th Percentile £374 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -3.33% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £606
90th Percentile £641 £656 £688
England median daily rate £533 £550 £572
% change year-on-year -3.09% -3.89% +4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 153 83
10th Percentile £20.38 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.80 £15.17 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +96.44% -9.97% -11.32%
75th Percentile £57.59 £34.21 £42.19
90th Percentile £75.50 £48.24 £66.55
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.65 £22.34
% change year-on-year -4.88% +59.61% -15.72%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Security Operations Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in the North of England

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Centre in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in the North of England

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations Centre in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations Centre in the North of England

Security Operations Centre
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations Centre within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +11 4 £638 +6.25% 13
Security Operations Centre
England

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Operations Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Responder
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Incident Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) CSOC
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) SOAR
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Darktrace
2 1 (25.00%) Varonis