SOC Analyst Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Security Operations Centre Analyst
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Security Operations Centre Analyst daily rate in Northampton is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Analyst 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 0.36% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £375 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northampton. 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 Northampton with a recognized job title 273 186 114
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.15% 91.63% 96.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 148 90
10th Percentile £275 £355 £212
25th Percentile £349 £369 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £423 £474
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% -10.82% +5.87%
75th Percentile £448 £505 £534
90th Percentile £500 £575 £576
Northamptonshire median daily rate £393 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -7.53% -10.53% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £21.39 - £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.33%
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £12.22 £13.18
% change year-on-year +75.04% -7.25% -45.25%

SOC Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SOC Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

SOC Analyst job vacancy trend in Northampton

SOC Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SOC Analyst job vacancies in Northampton.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SOC Analyst job vacancies in Northampton

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Top 10 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton

For the 6 months to 20 October 2025, SOC Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Northampton region featuring SOC Analyst in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable