Security Operations Centre Contract Job Trends in Wales

Security Operations Centre
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 48 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.42% 0.24% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 0.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 - -
UK median daily rate £533 £575 £620
% change year-on-year -7.39% -7.30% +3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -0.38%

All Generic Skills
Wales

Security Operations Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 148 145 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 30.96% 34.20% 31.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 92 98
10th Percentile £163 £151 £164
25th Percentile £202 £210 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £419 £339
Median % change year-on-year -22.39% +23.62% -23.01%
75th Percentile £439 £580 £538
90th Percentile £568 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 16 7
10th Percentile £16.47 £19.07 £21.70
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.44 £31.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.48 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.58% -52.37% +234.38%
75th Percentile £26.42 £26.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £28.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £33.27 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -21.72% +21.43%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Operations Centre relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in Wales

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Security Operations Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Security Operations Centre

Security Operations Centre
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations Centre within the Wales region over the 6 months to 17 December 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 Wales - 2 £238 - 2
Security Operations Centre
UK

Security Operations Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CSOC
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Assurance
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Postgraduate
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable
1 1 (50.00%) VMware