SOAR Contracts in the North of England

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for SOAR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOAR over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 188 245
Rank change year-on-year +17 +57 -
Contract jobs citing SOAR 18 28 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.38% 0.48% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.53% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 2
10th Percentile £560 £331 -
25th Percentile £574 £470 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £606 £338
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +79.41% -
75th Percentile £700 £750 £344
90th Percentile £790 £800 -
England median daily rate £568 £587 £600
% change year-on-year -3.28% -2.21% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

SOAR is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,038 5,267 6,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.77% 90.70% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,470 3,658 4,648
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 207 255
10th Percentile £11.05 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.13%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £30.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.24
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the North of England

SOAR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SOAR in the North of England

SOAR
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAR in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAR in the North of England

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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 SOAR within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Yorkshire +12 15 £582 -6.88% 1
North West +25 3 £600 +2.39% 1
SOAR
England

SOAR
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 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (5.56%) IaaS
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) PaaS
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
General
1 15 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Lead
2 2 (11.11%) Technologist
3 1 (5.56%) Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (83.33%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (83.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 14 (77.78%) Cyber Threat
2 14 (77.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (88.89%) Incident Response
3 15 (83.33%) Case Management
3 15 (83.33%) Incident Management
3 15 (83.33%) Information Security
3 15 (83.33%) Mentoring
4 14 (77.78%) CRM
4 14 (77.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 14 (77.78%) Protective Monitoring
4 14 (77.78%) Root Cause Analysis
4 14 (77.78%) SIEM
4 14 (77.78%) Threat Intelligence
4 14 (77.78%) Use Case
5 9 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (5.56%) Agile
7 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.56%) Security Testing
7 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 1 (5.56%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (77.78%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) CISSP
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) GIAC
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (88.89%) NIST
2 15 (83.33%) NIST 800
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Rapid7
2 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
2 2 (11.11%) Sophos
3 1 (5.56%) Carbon Black
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) VMware