CSOC Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CSOC in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CSOC over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 421 501
Rank change year-on-year +80 +80 -110
Contract jobs citing CSOC 52 38 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.16% 0.026%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.85% 0.49% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 22 8
10th Percentile - £478 £534
25th Percentile £463 £551 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +6.38% +26.34%
75th Percentile £700 £692 £628
90th Percentile - £763 £664
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £575
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +15.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

CSOC is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,117 7,807 9,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.42% 32.43% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,655 5,281 6,769
10th Percentile £210 £213 £202
25th Percentile £375 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £599 £618 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 717 439 468
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.70
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%

CSOC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CSOC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CSOC in the UK excluding London

CSOC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSOC in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CSOC in the UK excluding London

CSOC
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSOC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CSOC in the UK excluding London

CSOC
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSOC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
South West +53 46 £663 +6.00%
South East +21 5 £81 -79.75% 1
East of England - 1 - -
CSOC
UK

CSOC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (1.92%) AWS
2 1 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) Firewall
2 2 (3.85%) Network Security
2 2 (3.85%) VPN
General
1 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
2 6 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (5.77%) Finance
4 1 (1.92%) Electronics
4 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.92%) Marketing
4 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (65.38%) Analyst
2 33 (63.46%) SOC Analyst
3 8 (15.38%) SOC Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) SOC Manager
5 4 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Security Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Lead
6 2 (3.85%) Network Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Network Project Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.85%) SIEM Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Technical Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Technical Project Manager
7 1 (1.92%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 45 (86.54%) Security Operations Centre
2 15 (28.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (90.38%) Security Operations
3 39 (75.00%) Incident Response
4 32 (61.54%) Use Case
5 31 (59.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (50.00%) SIEM
7 25 (48.08%) Analytics
8 22 (42.31%) Time Management
9 18 (34.62%) ITIL
9 18 (34.62%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 17 (32.69%) Information Security
11 16 (30.77%) Threat Intelligence
12 9 (17.31%) Cyber Resilience
13 2 (3.85%) Decision-Making
13 2 (3.85%) DevOps
13 2 (3.85%) Kanban
13 2 (3.85%) Migration
13 2 (3.85%) Project Delivery
13 2 (3.85%) Security Architecture
13 2 (3.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 40 (76.92%) DV Cleared
1 40 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 24 (46.15%) SANS
3 23 (44.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (28.85%) GDPR
1 15 (28.85%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (3.85%) AlgoSec
1 2 (3.85%) CheckPoint
1 2 (3.85%) Juniper
2 1 (1.92%) Darktrace
2 1 (1.92%) FireEye
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.92%) SAP