SOAR Contract Job Trends in Reading

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring SOAR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - 85
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOAR 9 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.28% - 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £550 - £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £850
75th Percentile £681 - £875
90th Percentile £700 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £600 £850
% change year-on-year - -29.41% +13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

SOAR falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 983 963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.31% 90.85% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 551 628
10th Percentile £337 £330 £213
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £609 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 11 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £29.00 £41.24
25th Percentile £16.66 £49.38 £59.89
Median hourly rate £58.00 £60.46 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -4.48% -2.63%
75th Percentile £82.25 £67.21 £65.25
90th Percentile £96.75 £74.87 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £59.00 £61.45
% change year-on-year -36.81% -3.98% +21.68%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOAR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

SOAR job vacancy trend in Reading

SOAR
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SOAR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SOAR

SOAR
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAR in Reading over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOAR in Reading

SOAR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (11.11%) Vertex AI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) MLflow
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
1 4 (44.44%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
1 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Onboarding
2 5 (55.56%) Operational Technology
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) SIEM
2 7 (77.78%) Data Analysis
2 7 (77.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (44.44%) Threat Detection
4 3 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (11.11%) AI
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
5 1 (11.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Generative AI
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 1 (11.11%) MLOps
5 1 (11.11%) Model Validation
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
5 1 (11.11%) Static Application Security Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Validation
5 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CEH
2 1 (11.11%) ECSA
2 1 (11.11%) GCFA
2 1 (11.11%) GCIA
2 1 (11.11%) GCIH
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) EU AI Act
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubeflow
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) LogRhythm
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk