SOC Analyst Contracts in Swindon

Security Operations Centre Analyst
Wiltshire > Swindon

The median Security Operations Centre Analyst daily rate in Swindon is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Analyst 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 2.46% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £475 £675
% change year-on-year +15.79% -29.63% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Swindon

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Swindon. 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 Swindon with a recognized job title 109 226 290
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.34% 99.56% 93.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 184 204
10th Percentile £143 £200 £232
25th Percentile £200 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% +13.96%
75th Percentile £541 £588 £591
90th Percentile £697 £692 £671
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £550 £524
% change year-on-year - +5.06% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £14.25 - £15.18
25th Percentile £15.75 - £15.44
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.00%
75th Percentile £30.25 - £26.19
90th Percentile - - £30.73
Wiltshire median hourly rate £25.00 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -61.83% +19.09% +22.22%

SOC Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Analyst in Swindon

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 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 Swindon region featuring SOC Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (66.67%) Escalation Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (66.67%) Blue Team
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Search Processing Language
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) SLA
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) Blue Team
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) Escalation Management
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (33.33%) Red Team
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (66.67%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft