Security Operations Centre Contracts in Stevenage

Security Operations Centre
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in Stevenage. 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 13 48 -
Rank change year-on-year +35 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 15 10 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Stevenage 12.00% 2.18% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 20.55% 8.40% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £628 - -
90th Percentile £634 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +60.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.34 - -
Median hourly rate £81.26 - -
75th Percentile £82.58 - -
90th Percentile £83.43 - -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £80.68 - -

All Generic Skills
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 73 119 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 58.40% 25.98% 28.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 32
10th Percentile £400 £284 £273
25th Percentile £450 £295 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £400 £373
Median % change year-on-year +33.75% +7.38% -12.35%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £395
90th Percentile - £650 £460
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 £464 £500
% change year-on-year +18.60% -7.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 54 25
10th Percentile £47.50 £60.00 £58.35
25th Percentile £66.13 £61.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -1.52% +17.86%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £85.00 £73.05
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £72.50 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +11.54% -0.76% +22.60%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in Stevenage

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in Stevenage

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Stevenage 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) DNS
1 11 (73.33%) FTP
1 11 (73.33%) HTTP
1 11 (73.33%) SMTP
1 11 (73.33%) SSL
2 9 (60.00%) Network Security
General
1 8 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Analyst
1 14 (93.33%) SOC Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Junior
2 3 (20.00%) Junior Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Security Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Security Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Cyber Threat
2 10 (66.67%) Cyberattack
3 8 (53.33%) CSOC
4 6 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (40.00%) Management Information System
5 4 (26.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (6.67%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Cybersecurity
1 14 (93.33%) Security Operations
2 12 (80.00%) Incident Response
3 10 (66.67%) Threat Detection
4 8 (53.33%) Information Management
4 8 (53.33%) SIEM
5 7 (46.67%) Information Security
5 7 (46.67%) Network Packet Capture
6 6 (40.00%) Analytics
6 6 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (40.00%) Behavioural Analytics
6 6 (40.00%) Machine Learning
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) Security Monitoring
7 2 (13.33%) Threat Analysis
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (40.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) CISSP
4 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (13.33%) GCIA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Darktrace
1 4 (26.67%) FireEye
1 4 (26.67%) LogRhythm
1 4 (26.67%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) IronPort
2 2 (13.33%) Symantec