Security Operations Centre Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Security Operations Centre
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in Oxford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxford 1.89% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £400 - -

All Generic Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21 20 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 39.62% 30.30% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 17
10th Percentile £460 £210 £166
25th Percentile £550 £363 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% +13.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £622 £500 £525
90th Percentile £661 £510 £615
Oxfordshire median daily rate £519 £463 £478
% change year-on-year +12.16% -3.24% +6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £18.08
Median % change year-on-year - -11.50% -9.60%
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £26.50 £16.00 £25.20
% change year-on-year +65.63% -36.51% +34.69%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in Oxford

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware