SOAR Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SOAR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOAR over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 376 509
Rank change year-on-year +77 +133 -94
Contract jobs citing SOAR 104 81 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.34% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.38% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 69 12
10th Percentile £492 £413 £331
25th Percentile £525 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £475 £539
Median % change year-on-year +19.47% -11.87% +7.80%
75th Percentile £582 £700 £638
90th Percentile £625 £750 £739
UK median daily rate £568 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -0.44% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 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 is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,507 21,404 27,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.51% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,460 14,856 19,229
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,060 1,308 1,363
10th Percentile £12.34 £11.00 £12.03
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 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 +68 86 £568 +19.47%
North of England +20 18 £591 -5.44% 1
South East +28 16 £500 -19.19% 5
Yorkshire +12 15 £582 -6.88% 1
Midlands +35 8 £538 -13.92%
West Midlands - 7 £538 -
North West +17 3 £600 +2.39%
Scotland +21 1 £425 -5.56% 2
East Midlands +20 1 - -
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 23 (22.12%) Azure
2 7 (6.73%) AWS
3 4 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (3.85%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (0.96%) Azure Stack
4 1 (0.96%) GCP
4 1 (0.96%) IaaS
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.96%) PaaS
4 1 (0.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) Firewall
1 1 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.96%) Big Data
1 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) Git
General
1 65 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.58%) Telecoms
3 7 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.73%) Legal
3 7 (6.73%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.77%) Finance
5 2 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.96%) Aviation
6 1 (0.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 63 (60.58%) Analyst
2 26 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 20 (19.23%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 20 (19.23%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 15 (14.42%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 12 (11.54%) Lead
5 12 (11.54%) SOC Analyst
5 12 (11.54%) SOC Engineer
6 9 (8.65%) Compliance Analyst
6 9 (8.65%) Data Analyst
6 9 (8.65%) Data Compliance Analyst
7 7 (6.73%) Security Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (2.88%) Architect
9 3 (2.88%) Security Architect
10 2 (1.92%) Security Analyst
10 2 (1.92%) Technologist
11 1 (0.96%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 1 (0.96%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 1 (0.96%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.92%) OAuth
1 2 (1.92%) OpenID
1 2 (1.92%) SAML
2 1 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.96%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 58 (55.77%) Cyber Threat
2 40 (38.46%) Cyber Defence
2 40 (38.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 31 (29.81%) Management Information System
4 14 (13.46%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (6.73%) Private Cloud
5 7 (6.73%) Security Posture
6 6 (5.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (5.77%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.85%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.88%) Linux
1 3 (2.88%) Windows
2 1 (0.96%) Mac OS X
2 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (89.42%) SIEM
2 77 (74.04%) Cybersecurity
3 63 (60.58%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 63 (60.58%) Threat Intelligence
4 58 (55.77%) Incident Response
5 56 (53.85%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 47 (45.19%) Incident Management
7 46 (44.23%) Use Case
8 40 (38.46%) Root Cause Analysis
9 39 (37.50%) Security Operations
10 38 (36.54%) Case Management
11 37 (35.58%) Information Security
12 36 (34.62%) Protective Monitoring
13 34 (32.69%) CRM
14 33 (31.73%) Mentoring
15 27 (25.96%) Open Source
16 26 (25.00%) Malware Analysis
16 26 (25.00%) OSINT
17 20 (19.23%) Cyber Intelligence
18 19 (18.27%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.92%) Python
2 1 (0.96%) Bash
2 1 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (0.96%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 84 (80.77%) Security Cleared
2 72 (69.23%) DV Cleared
3 9 (8.65%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.92%) CEH
4 2 (1.92%) CREST Certified
4 2 (1.92%) Degree
4 2 (1.92%) SANS
5 1 (0.96%) CISM
5 1 (0.96%) CISSP
5 1 (0.96%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.96%) GCIH
5 1 (0.96%) GIAC
5 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (41.35%) NIST
2 38 (36.54%) NIST 800
3 5 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.85%) NCSC
5 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.85%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 2 (1.92%) Terraform
3 1 (0.96%) Ansible
3 1 (0.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.96%) Nessus
3 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 60 (57.69%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.42%) Splunk
3 2 (1.92%) Rapid7
3 2 (1.92%) SolarWinds
3 2 (1.92%) Sophos
4 1 (0.96%) ArcSight
4 1 (0.96%) Carbon Black
4 1 (0.96%) Cisco
4 1 (0.96%) ForeScout
4 1 (0.96%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.96%) VMware