SOC Architect Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Security Operations Centre Architect
South East > West Sussex

The median Security Operations Centre Architect daily rate in West Sussex is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.47% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
South East median daily rate £750 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Sussex. 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 West Sussex with a recognized job title 176 119 273
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.41% 92.25% 97.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 89 208
10th Percentile £200 £189 £200
25th Percentile £251 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -8.72% -1.40%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £578
90th Percentile £703 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £510
% change year-on-year -1.57% -0.39% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 5
10th Percentile £12.63 - £16.30
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.00 £22.38
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -41.67% +136.74%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £22.76 - £68.04
South East median hourly rate £20.77 £58.17 £51.90
% change year-on-year -64.30% +12.09% +64.61%

SOC Architect
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 SOC Architect 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 -
SOC Architect
South East

SOC Architect Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex

For the 6 months to 20 October 2025, SOC Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Sussex region featuring SOC Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
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

SOC Architect Skill Set
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
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
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