Security Operations Centre Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Security Operations Centre
South East > West Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in West Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.47% - 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.28% - 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £525
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £542 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.45% - -5.17%

All Generic Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 78 31 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 36.97% 24.03% 27.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 21 69
10th Percentile £170 £170 £200
25th Percentile £286 £313 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £410 £374
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +9.63% -28.76%
75th Percentile £688 £488 £590
90th Percentile £720 £800 £678
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £18.82 - £70.07
Median % change year-on-year - - +227.58%
75th Percentile £20.69 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £25.08 £55.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -54.41% +2.80% +102.27%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

Security Operations Centre
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Worthing - 1 £750 -
Security Operations Centre
South East

Security Operations Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST