SOC Engineer Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Security Operations Centre Engineer
South West > Wiltshire

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in Wiltshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - 75
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 1 0 19
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.12% - 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% - 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 19
10th Percentile - - £507
25th Percentile £588 - £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.24%
75th Percentile £613 - £694
90th Percentile - - £700
South West median daily rate £475 - £600
% change year-on-year - - -17.24%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Wiltshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 715 391 872
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.49% 87.87% 91.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 274 634
10th Percentile £400 £302 £297
25th Percentile £481 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -
75th Percentile £688 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £688 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 2 27
10th Percentile £12.60 - -
25th Percentile £19.15 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £60.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +263.64% -74.81%
75th Percentile £31.25 - £74.00
90th Percentile £48.60 - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +35.42% -26.15%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SOC Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

SOC Engineer job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

SOC Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SOC Engineer job vacancies in Wiltshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SOC Engineer job vacancies in Wiltshire

SOC Engineer
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 SOC Engineer within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 28 March 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 - 1 £600 - 2
SOC Engineer
South West

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire

For the 6 months to 28 March 2026, SOC Engineer 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 Wiltshire region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Tanium
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Micro
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Windows

SOC Engineer Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) Tanium
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Micro