CSOC Contracts in the North West

Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CSOC in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSOC over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 - 144
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Contract jobs citing CSOC 1 0 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.052% - 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% - 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £475
25th Percentile £725 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.08%
75th Percentile £775 - £628
90th Percentile - - £695
England median daily rate £560 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -13.85% +4.00% +8.70%

All Generic Skills
North West

CSOC 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 552 685 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.45% 25.89% 32.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 449 653
10th Percentile £203 £283 £304
25th Percentile £358 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £610
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £537 £550 £571
% change year-on-year -2.32% -3.64% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 78 40
10th Percentile £22.73 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £25.75 £15.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.90 £25.25 £31.49
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -19.82% +57.45%
75th Percentile £59.48 £37.44 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £34.11 £22.49
% change year-on-year -3.24% +51.68% -15.15%

CSOC
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing CSOC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for CSOC in the North West

CSOC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSOC in the North West.

Daily rate trend for CSOC in the North West

CSOC
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSOC within the North West region over the 6 months to 22 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
Manchester - 1 £750 -
CSOC
England

CSOC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk