SOC Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Operations Centre Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Operations Centre Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 438 494
Rank change year-on-year +65 +56 -56
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Manager 20 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.097% 0.054% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.058% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 14
10th Percentile £561 - £516
25th Percentile £584 £688 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £738 £663
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% +11.32% -
75th Percentile £709 £797 £797
90th Percentile £775 £894 £1,010
UK median daily rate £675 £725 £675
% change year-on-year -6.90% +7.41% +17.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,031 22,516 29,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.26% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,791 20,746
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,244 1,158 1,469
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.92 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.93
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

SOC Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured SOC Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Manager in the UK excluding London

SOC Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SOC Manager in the UK excluding London

SOC Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Manager in the UK excluding London

SOC Manager
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 SOC Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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 - 13 £600 -
Midlands +25 3 £675 -6.90%
West Midlands +21 3 £675 -6.90%
Scotland - 2 £600 - 1
North of England +27 1 £750 -1.64%
North West +25 1 £750 +3.45%
South East +22 1 £650 -
SOC Manager
UK

SOC Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, SOC Manager 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 UK excluding London region featuring SOC Manager in the job title.

1 19 (95.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (65.00%) Security Operations
2 13 (65.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 11 (55.00%) Information Security
4 10 (50.00%) Agile
4 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 10 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (50.00%) SIEM
4 10 (50.00%) NIST
5 9 (45.00%) DV Cleared
5 9 (45.00%) Network Security
6 8 (40.00%) Programme Management
6 8 (40.00%) Military
6 8 (40.00%) Cyber Defence
6 8 (40.00%) NIST 800
6 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
6 8 (40.00%) Security Architecture
6 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
7 7 (35.00%) CISM
7 7 (35.00%) CISSP
7 7 (35.00%) Resource Management
8 6 (30.00%) Coaching
8 6 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 5 (25.00%) CSOC
10 4 (20.00%) Firewall
11 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
12 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
12 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 2 (10.00%) Degree

SOC Manager Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) Network Security
2 4 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 10 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Military
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 13 (65.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (40.00%) Cyber Defence
3 5 (25.00%) CSOC
4 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (65.00%) Security Operations
3 11 (55.00%) Information Security
4 10 (50.00%) Agile
4 10 (50.00%) SIEM
5 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 8 (40.00%) Programme Management
5 8 (40.00%) Security Architecture
6 7 (35.00%) Resource Management
7 6 (30.00%) Coaching
7 6 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
9 2 (10.00%) Contingency Planning
9 2 (10.00%) Critical Thinking
9 2 (10.00%) Inventory Control
9 2 (10.00%) Inventory Management
9 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (10.00%) Security Testing
9 2 (10.00%) Threat Detection
9 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (45.00%) DV Cleared
3 7 (35.00%) CISM
3 7 (35.00%) CISSP
4 2 (10.00%) Degree
5 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) NIST
2 8 (40.00%) NIST 800
3 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.00%) GDPR
4 1 (5.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Rapid7
1 2 (10.00%) Sophos
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft