SOC Consultant Contracts in the South East

Security Operations Centre Consultant
England > South East

The median Security Operations Centre Consultant daily rate in the South East is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 - 218
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Consultant 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.067% - 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% - 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £505 - -
25th Percentile £513 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £700
75th Percentile £538 - £750
90th Percentile £545 - -
England median daily rate £525 £950 £750
% change year-on-year -44.74% +26.67% +8.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 2,755 5,123 5,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 92.41% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,082 3,818
10th Percentile £248 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.88%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £607
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 483 243
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £17.19
25th Percentile £20.48 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +142.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.96 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.45 £36.34 £44.77
% change year-on-year -16.20% -18.83% +98.96%

SOC Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured SOC Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Consultant in the South East

SOC Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for SOC Consultant in the South East

SOC Consultant
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 SOC Consultant within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Berkshire - 2 £525 -
Thames Valley - 2 £525 -
SOC Consultant
England

SOC Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, SOC Consultant 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 South East region featuring SOC Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance

SOC Consultant Skill Set
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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Auditing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
2 1 (50.00%) CISA
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) GCFA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
2 1 (50.00%) GIAC
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk