SOAR Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SOAR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOAR over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 296 366
Rank change year-on-year -28 +70 +131
Contract jobs citing SOAR 15 104 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.50% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.59% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 69 69
10th Percentile £485 £492 £413
25th Percentile £519 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% +19.47% -11.87%
75th Percentile £661 £582 £700
90th Percentile £770 £625 £750
UK median daily rate £650 £568 £570
% change year-on-year +14.54% -0.44% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £97.50
% change year-on-year - -58.97% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the UK excluding London

SOAR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SOAR in the UK excluding London

SOAR
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAR in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOAR in the UK excluding London

SOAR
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 SOAR within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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 East +34 4 £500 - 14
North of England +9 4 £600 +1.52% 8
Yorkshire -5 3 - - 1
South West -36 3 £600 +5.73% 6
East of England - 2 £745 - 6
Scotland +13 1 - - 3
Midlands +12 1 - - 6
North West +12 1 £600 - 7
West Midlands +9 1 - - 6
SOAR
UK

SOAR
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 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (40.00%) AWS
4 4 (26.67%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
6 1 (6.67%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (13.33%) Network Security
4 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Aviation
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (13.33%) Police
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Swedish Language
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) SOC Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Audit Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Advisor
3 1 (6.67%) Security Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.67%) SIEM Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Robotics
2 2 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Cyberattack
3 1 (6.67%) Insider Threat
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) SIEM
2 10 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 10 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 9 (60.00%) Threat Detection
4 8 (53.33%) Cloud Security
5 6 (40.00%) Analytics
5 6 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 6 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 5 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 5 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (20.00%) Cyber Intelligence
7 3 (20.00%) DevOps
7 3 (20.00%) Event Correlation
7 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Security Architecture
7 3 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (6.67%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) CISSP
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (13.33%) CISM
4 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (13.33%) GCIH
4 2 (13.33%) GIAC
4 2 (13.33%) SANS
5 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
5 1 (6.67%) CCSK
5 1 (6.67%) CEH
5 1 (6.67%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (6.67%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) GCFA
5 1 (6.67%) GCIA
5 1 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) NIST
2 5 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (20.00%) GDPR
4 2 (13.33%) NIST 800
5 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) FortiGate
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
1 2 (13.33%) QRadar
2 1 (6.67%) CASB
2 1 (6.67%) CSIRT
2 1 (6.67%) OPNET
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Splunk
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) Google
3 3 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (13.33%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (13.33%) Ribbon
4 2 (13.33%) Tenable
5 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
5 1 (6.67%) Darktrace
5 1 (6.67%) Exabeam
5 1 (6.67%) FireEye
5 1 (6.67%) Forcepoint
5 1 (6.67%) Rapid7
5 1 (6.67%) Tanium