SOC Engineer Contract Job Trends in Winchester

Security Operations Centre Engineer
Hampshire > Winchester

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in Winchester is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Winchester 3.57% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Winchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Winchester. 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 Winchester with a recognized job title 22 11 43
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 78.57% 68.75% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 35
10th Percentile £263 £181 £350
25th Percentile £375 £190 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £300 £514
Median % change year-on-year +88.08% -41.63% +27.70%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £600
90th Percentile £588 £615 £642
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +90.00%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -61.31% +23.81%

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Winchester

For the 6 months to 28 September 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 Winchester region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Winchester 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
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft