Security Operations Centre Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Security Operations Centre
South West > Wiltshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in Wiltshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 5 0 38
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.64% - 4.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.89% - 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 26
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £594 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.92%
75th Percentile £738 - £688
90th Percentile - - £700
South West median daily rate £613 £388 £563
% change year-on-year +58.06% -31.11% +12.50%

All Generic Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 173 151 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 21.98% 32.61% 47.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 110 324
10th Percentile £325 £348 £463
25th Percentile £425 £486 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £642
90th Percentile £725 £688 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile - £18.62 £14.03
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.78 £14.54
Median hourly rate £17.50 £18.87 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +14.36% -72.50%
75th Percentile £33.88 - £30.25
90th Percentile £43.55 - -
South West median hourly rate £57.35 £21.01 £55.00
% change year-on-year +172.97% -61.80% -24.66%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

Security Operations Centre
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 8 July 2026. 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
Corsham - 4 £669 - 3
Swindon - 1 - - 1
Security Operations Centre
South West

Security Operations Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) CSOC
2 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (80.00%) Security Monitoring
2 4 (80.00%) SIEM
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (60.00%) SOAR
3 3 (60.00%) Threat Detection
3 3 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Use Case
3 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (40.00%) Digital Forensics
4 2 (40.00%) Malware Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (40.00%) Service Management
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Perl
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (20.00%) GCIA
3 1 (20.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (20.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Clearswift
1 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (40.00%) Tanium
1 2 (40.00%) Trend Micro
1 2 (40.00%) Tripwire
2 1 (20.00%) Google