SOC Analyst Contracts in Stevenage

Security Operations Centre Analyst
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The median Security Operations Centre Analyst daily rate in Stevenage is £680, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 July 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
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 38 -
Rank change year-on-year +20 - -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Analyst 21 11 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Stevenage 11.41% 2.51% -
As % of the Job Titles category 13.91% 2.84% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 0
10th Percentile £596 - -
25th Percentile £628 £290 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £684 -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £680 £650 £581
% change year-on-year +4.62% +11.83% +115.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £45.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.68 - -
75th Percentile £82.58 - -
90th Percentile £84.90 - -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £80.68 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Stevenage

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Stevenage. 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 Stevenage with a recognized job title 151 387 250
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 82.07% 88.36% 91.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 77 73
10th Percentile £225 £160 £273
25th Percentile £450 £345 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £435
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +26.44% -20.91%
75th Percentile £680 £575 £550
90th Percentile £708 - £665
Hertfordshire median daily rate £512 £428 £500
% change year-on-year +19.77% -14.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 241 115
10th Percentile £31.48 £40.85 £49.00
25th Percentile £44.94 £43.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -23.08% +11.59%
75th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £81.15 £70.00 £90.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% +25.00%

SOC Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

Job postings that featured SOC Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Stevenage.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Analyst in Stevenage

SOC Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC Analyst in Stevenage.

Daily rate trend for SOC Analyst in Stevenage

SOC Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in Stevenage

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SOC Analyst in Stevenage over the 6 months to 24 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SOC Analyst in Stevenage

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Stevenage

For the 6 months to 24 July 2025, SOC Analyst 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 Stevenage region featuring SOC Analyst in the job title.

1 20 (95.24%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (85.71%) Security Operations Centre
3 17 (80.95%) Security Operations
3 17 (80.95%) Security Cleared
3 17 (80.95%) SC Cleared
3 17 (80.95%) LDAP
3 17 (80.95%) SMTP
3 17 (80.95%) FTP
3 17 (80.95%) HTTP
3 17 (80.95%) DNS
3 17 (80.95%) SSL
4 16 (76.19%) Incident Response
4 16 (76.19%) Network Security
4 16 (76.19%) Cyber Threat
4 16 (76.19%) Cyberattack
5 15 (71.43%) Threat Detection
6 14 (66.67%) Network Packet Capture
7 13 (61.90%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
7 13 (61.90%) Information Security
7 13 (61.90%) SIEM
8 12 (57.14%) Information Management
8 12 (57.14%) CSOC
9 11 (52.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (52.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (47.62%) Machine Learning
10 10 (47.62%) Analytics
10 10 (47.62%) Artificial Intelligence
10 10 (47.62%) DV Cleared
10 10 (47.62%) Management Information System

SOC Analyst Skill Set
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 3 (14.29%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (80.95%) DNS
1 17 (80.95%) FTP
1 17 (80.95%) HTTP
1 17 (80.95%) SMTP
1 17 (80.95%) SSL
2 16 (76.19%) Network Security
General
1 13 (61.90%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Law
3 2 (9.52%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (80.95%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (85.71%) Security Operations Centre
2 16 (76.19%) Cyber Threat
2 16 (76.19%) Cyberattack
3 12 (57.14%) CSOC
4 11 (52.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (47.62%) Management Information System
6 3 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (4.76%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (80.95%) Security Operations
3 16 (76.19%) Incident Response
4 15 (71.43%) Threat Detection
5 14 (66.67%) Network Packet Capture
6 13 (61.90%) Information Security
6 13 (61.90%) SIEM
7 12 (57.14%) Information Management
8 11 (52.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (47.62%) Analytics
9 10 (47.62%) Artificial Intelligence
9 10 (47.62%) Behavioural Analytics
9 10 (47.62%) Machine Learning
10 8 (38.10%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (38.10%) Runbook
10 8 (38.10%) SOAR
11 7 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
12 2 (9.52%) Security Monitoring
12 2 (9.52%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) PowerShell
1 8 (38.10%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (80.95%) SC Cleared
1 17 (80.95%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) DV Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) CISSP
3 2 (9.52%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (9.52%) GCIA
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Darktrace
1 3 (14.29%) FireEye
1 3 (14.29%) LogRhythm
1 3 (14.29%) Splunk
1 3 (14.29%) Sun
2 1 (4.76%) IronPort
2 1 (4.76%) Symantec