SOC Specialist Contracts in Reading

Security Operations Centre Specialist
Berkshire > Reading

The median Security Operations Centre Specialist daily rate in Reading is £490 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
2 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Specialist 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.084% - 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £664
25th Percentile £470 - £666
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - £713
75th Percentile £510 - £772
90th Percentile - - £781
Berkshire median daily rate £490 - £713

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,111 981 1,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 95.71% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 660 893
10th Percentile £213 £363 £181
25th Percentile £413 £455 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £655 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -2.38% +6.06% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.40 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.00 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.72% +170.88% -1.29%

SOC Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured SOC Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Specialist in Reading

SOC Specialist Skill Set
Top 8 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, SOC Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring SOC Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations

SOC Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk