SOAR Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stevenage requiring SOAR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOAR 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 4.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £680 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £45.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.63 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £79.38 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 245 118 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 80.33% 90.08% 92.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 14 28
10th Percentile £214 £266 £217
25th Percentile £450 £293 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £343 £448
Median % change year-on-year +53.28% -23.46% -14.68%
75th Percentile £586 £495 £530
90th Percentile £757 £565 £641
Hertfordshire median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 67 138
10th Percentile £41.25 £38.00 £38.64
25th Percentile £50.06 £60.00 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £95.00 £90.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -33.85% - -

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOAR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage.

SOAR job vacancy trend in Stevenage

SOAR
Hourly Rate Histogram in Stevenage

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SOAR in Stevenage over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SOAR in Stevenage

SOAR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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:

Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) DNS
1 13 (100.00%) FTP
1 13 (100.00%) HTTP
1 13 (100.00%) Network Security
1 13 (100.00%) SMTP
1 13 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 12 (92.31%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Analyst
1 13 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Senior
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Cyberattack
2 12 (92.31%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (92.31%) CSOC
2 12 (92.31%) Cyber Threat
2 12 (92.31%) Management Information System
2 12 (92.31%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 13 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 13 (100.00%) Information Security
1 13 (100.00%) Network Packet Capture
1 13 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 13 (100.00%) Runbook
1 13 (100.00%) SIEM
2 12 (92.31%) AI
2 12 (92.31%) Analytics
2 12 (92.31%) Behavioural Analytics
2 12 (92.31%) Incident Response
2 12 (92.31%) Information Management
2 12 (92.31%) Machine Learning
2 12 (92.31%) Security Operations
2 12 (92.31%) Threat Detection
2 12 (92.31%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 13 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) DV Cleared