SOC Architect Contracts

Security Operations Centre Architect
UK

The median Security Operations Centre Architect daily rate in the UK is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 553 664
Rank change year-on-year +15 +111 +182
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Architect 8 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.008% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.008% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £628 £615 £655
25th Percentile - £638 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £805 £713 £738
90th Percentile - £735 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £805 £750 £700
% change year-on-year +7.33% +7.14% +27.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 30,049 36,010 48,875
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.28% 92.94% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,935 23,186 33,758
10th Percentile £281 £300 £304
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,543 1,988 1,469
10th Percentile £13.56 £14.16 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.28 £20.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +61.60%
75th Percentile £53.81 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £44.02 £36.00
% change year-on-year -42.87% +22.28% +69.41%

SOC Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Architect in the UK

SOC Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC Architect.

Daily rate trend for SOC Architect in the UK

SOC Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Architect over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Architect in the UK

SOC Architect
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOC Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 18 August 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
England +30 7 £803 +18.89% 1
UK excluding London +20 6 £805 +7.33% 2
South West - 6 £805 - 1
Work from Home +21 5 £805 +19.26% 1
London +9 1 £525 -12.50%

SOC Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 August 2025, SOC Architect 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 featuring SOC Architect in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) SIEM
3 5 (62.50%) Back Office
3 5 (62.50%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (62.50%) NCSC
3 5 (62.50%) NIST
4 3 (37.50%) Threat Detection
5 2 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
5 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (25.00%) JSP 440
6 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (12.50%) Log Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (12.50%) SFIA
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (12.50%) VMS
6 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 1 (12.50%) Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (12.50%) Azure
6 1 (12.50%) Splunk

SOC Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 5 (62.50%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) SIEM
2 3 (37.50%) Threat Detection
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Log Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) SFIA
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) NCSC
1 5 (62.50%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) JSP 440
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk