Security Operations Centre Contracts in Scotland

Security Operations Centre
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 127 150
Rank change year-on-year +13 +23 +9
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 2 2 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% 0.090% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 0.27% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £563 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +26.37% -11.22%
75th Percentile - £588 £525
90th Percentile - - £775
UK median daily rate £550 £618 £613
% change year-on-year -10.93% +0.82% -1.61%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in Scotland

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Centre in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in Scotland

Security Operations Centre
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations Centre within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh +6 2 - - 3
Security Operations Centre
UK

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Event Correlation
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) GCFA
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
1 1 (50.00%) OSCP
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk