Security Operations Centre Contract Job Trends in the South West

Security Operations Centre
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 120 131
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +48
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 4 6 20
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.17% 0.28% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.56% 1.08% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 15
10th Percentile £801 - £413
25th Percentile £803 £575 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £813 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +35.42% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £828 £675 £688
90th Percentile £834 £705 £700
England median daily rate £550 £575 £620
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.30% +3.38%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 712 555 905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 30.56% 26.28% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 327 628
10th Percentile £225 £205 £250
25th Percentile £400 £424 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -
75th Percentile £650 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £726
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 40 61
10th Percentile £11.20 £14.41 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £22.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.37% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £83.40
90th Percentile £70.14 - -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.16%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Operations Centre relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in the South West

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Security Operations Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Security Operations Centre

Security Operations Centre
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Bristol -1 2 - - 1
Wiltshire -19 2 £813 +35.42% 3
Security Operations Centre
England

Security Operations Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Information
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Security
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) SOC Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Information Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Target Operating Model
2 2 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISA
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) COBIT
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST