CSOC Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CSOC in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CSOC over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 458 607
Rank change year-on-year +113 +149 -135
Contract jobs citing CSOC 3 18 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.070% 0.034%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.069% 0.22% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 9
10th Percentile £513 £623 -
25th Percentile £531 £624 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +26.09% -1.29%
75th Percentile £656 £763 £613
90th Percentile £698 - £655
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £575
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +15.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

CSOC is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,322 8,030 13,983
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.52% 31.44% 31.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,947 5,647 9,980
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £451 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £792 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 154 225
10th Percentile £15.44 £19.00 £12.42
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +23.60% +29.93%
75th Percentile £65.03 £70.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.15
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.25
% change year-on-year +34.04% -17.49% +3.52%

CSOC
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CSOC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CSOC trend for jobs with a WFH option

CSOC
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CSOC.

CSOC daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CSOC
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CSOC over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

CSOC daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CSOC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Operations Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Blue Team
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Management
3 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Red Team
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SANS
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft