SOAR Contracts in the South East

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring SOAR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOAR over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 181 213
Rank change year-on-year +32 +32 +46
Contract jobs citing SOAR 4 16 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.29% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.34% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £460 £497 £564
25th Percentile £475 - £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £619
Median % change year-on-year - -19.19% -20.16%
75th Percentile £525 £582 £663
90th Percentile £540 £743 £685
England median daily rate £650 £568 £586
% change year-on-year +14.54% -3.16% -2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,741 4,656 5,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.28% 84.39% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,748 2,720 3,497
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% -1.81% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 436 222
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £16.31
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -4.04% +130.23%
75th Percentile £62.31 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.02 £37.18 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.95% -0.85% +50.00%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SOAR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the South East

SOAR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAR in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SOAR in the South East

SOAR
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley +42 4 £500 - 4
Berkshire +30 4 £500 - 4
SOAR
England

SOAR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) SOC Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Audit Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Advisor
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Event Correlation
3 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (25.00%) Security Auditing
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) GCIH
2 2 (50.00%) GIAC
3 1 (25.00%) CCSK
3 1 (25.00%) CEH
3 1 (25.00%) CISA
3 1 (25.00%) CISM
3 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) GCFA
3 1 (25.00%) GCIA
3 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (25.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
1 1 (25.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (25.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (25.00%) Forcepoint
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk