SOC Manager Contracts

Security Operations Centre Manager
UK

The median Security Operations Centre Manager daily rate in the UK is £675 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 576 697 831
Rank change year-on-year +121 +134 -136
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Manager 24 19 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.032% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.034% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 28
10th Percentile £563 - £521
25th Percentile £594 £688 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +7.41% +17.39%
75th Percentile £744 £794 £816
90th Percentile £775 £874 £1,100
UK excluding London median daily rate £663 £738 £663
% change year-on-year -10.17% +11.32% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

SOC Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Manager in the UK

SOC Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SOC Manager in the UK

SOC Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for SOC Manager in the UK

SOC Manager
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 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
UK excluding London +65 20 £663 -10.17% 1
England +120 19 £675 -6.90% 1
South West - 13 £600 -
Work from Home +123 7 £713 -1.72%
Midlands +25 3 £675 -6.90%
West Midlands +21 3 £675 -6.90%
Scotland - 2 £600 - 1
London +109 1 £775 +8.01% 1
North of England +27 1 £750 -1.64%
North West +25 1 £750 +3.45%
South East +22 1 £650 -

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

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 featuring SOC Manager in the job title.

1 20 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (58.33%) Security Operations
3 13 (54.17%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (45.83%) SIEM
4 11 (45.83%) Information Security
5 10 (41.67%) Agile
5 10 (41.67%) CISSP
5 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
5 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (41.67%) NIST
6 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
6 9 (37.50%) DV Cleared
6 9 (37.50%) Network Security
7 8 (33.33%) Security Architecture
7 8 (33.33%) Military
7 8 (33.33%) Programme Management
7 8 (33.33%) CISM
7 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
7 8 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
7 8 (33.33%) NIST 800
8 7 (29.17%) Resource Management
9 6 (25.00%) Coaching
9 6 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 5 (20.83%) CSOC
10 5 (20.83%) Firewall
11 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
12 2 (8.33%) Azure
12 2 (8.33%) Security Testing
12 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Assessment

SOC Manager 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) Network Security
2 5 (20.83%) Firewall
General
1 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Military
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
3 5 (20.83%) CSOC
4 2 (8.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (58.33%) Security Operations
3 11 (45.83%) Information Security
3 11 (45.83%) SIEM
4 10 (41.67%) Agile
5 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
6 8 (33.33%) Programme Management
6 8 (33.33%) Security Architecture
7 7 (29.17%) Resource Management
8 6 (25.00%) Coaching
8 6 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
10 2 (8.33%) Biomedicine
10 2 (8.33%) Contingency Planning
10 2 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
10 2 (8.33%) Data Protection
10 2 (8.33%) Inventory Control
10 2 (8.33%) Inventory Management
10 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (8.33%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) CISSP
1 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 8 (33.33%) CISM
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (4.17%) CCSK
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.17%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (4.17%) GCIA
5 1 (4.17%) GCIH
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (41.67%) NIST
2 8 (33.33%) NIST 800
3 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.17%) GDPR
4 1 (4.17%) ISO 9001
4 1 (4.17%) NCSC
4 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.33%) Rapid7
1 2 (8.33%) Sophos