CSOC Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CSOC in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSOC over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 342 461
Rank change year-on-year +46 +119 +156
Contract jobs citing CSOC 8 3 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% 0.020% 0.062%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.068% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 7
10th Percentile £539 £513 £623
25th Percentile £548 £531 £624
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £725
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -20.69% +26.09%
75th Percentile £560 £656 £763
90th Percentile £603 £698 -
UK median daily rate £551 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -15.23% +4.00% +8.70%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

CSOC 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

CSOC
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CSOC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CSOC trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CSOC
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CSOC.

CSOC daily rate 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:

General
1 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) Operations Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
1 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (75.00%) VMS
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) SIEM
2 6 (75.00%) Event Correlation
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
1 6 (75.00%) F5
1 6 (75.00%) Fortinet
1 6 (75.00%) Palo Alto
1 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (75.00%) ServiceNow
1 6 (75.00%) SolarWinds
1 6 (75.00%) Splunk
8 CSOC jobs Nationwide