SOAR Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SOAR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOAR 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 278 326 417
Rank change year-on-year +48 +91 +173
Contract jobs citing SOAR 26 19 60
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.14% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 44
10th Percentile £375 £433 £438
25th Percentile £538 £525 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £725
90th Percentile £784 - £801
UK median daily rate £650 £568 £570
% change year-on-year +14.54% -0.44% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £97.50
% change year-on-year - -58.97% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

SOAR falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

SOAR
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SOAR trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SOAR
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SOAR daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOAR
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SOAR over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SOAR daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SOAR
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 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (19.23%) AWS
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.85%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (61.54%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) HTTP
2 2 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (7.69%) Network Security
3 1 (3.85%) DNS
3 1 (3.85%) FTP
3 1 (3.85%) SMTP
3 1 (3.85%) SSL
3 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Aviation
4 2 (7.69%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (7.69%) French Language
4 2 (7.69%) Police
4 2 (7.69%) Swedish Language
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Security Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Automation Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Consultant
4 3 (11.54%) Security Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Operational Security Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Operations Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Manager
5 2 (7.69%) SIEM Architect
5 2 (7.69%) SOC Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Audit Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Capability Manager
6 1 (3.85%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead
6 1 (3.85%) QA Leader
6 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Senior
6 1 (3.85%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) ADO
2 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (15.38%) Security Operations Centre
1 4 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Robotics
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.85%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Insider Threat
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Windows
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) SIEM
2 19 (73.08%) Security Operations
3 17 (65.38%) Incident Response
4 12 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
6 9 (34.62%) Threat Detection
7 7 (26.92%) Hyperautomation
7 7 (26.92%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 7 (26.92%) Threat Intelligence
7 7 (26.92%) Workflow
8 6 (23.08%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 5 (19.23%) Cloud Security
9 5 (19.23%) Data Loss Prevention
9 5 (19.23%) DevOps
9 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (15.38%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
11 3 (11.54%) Agile
11 3 (11.54%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
2 6 (23.08%) Python
3 3 (11.54%) Bash
4 2 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) PHP
5 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) CISSP
2 4 (15.38%) GCIH
3 3 (11.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (11.54%) CEH
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (11.54%) GIAC
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.69%) CCSP
4 2 (7.69%) CISM
4 2 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.85%) CISA
5 1 (3.85%) Degree
5 1 (3.85%) GCFA
5 1 (3.85%) GCIA
5 1 (3.85%) ISEB
5 1 (3.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) NIST
2 7 (26.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (19.23%) GDPR
4 3 (11.54%) PCI DSS
5 2 (7.69%) SLA
6 1 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (3.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
6 1 (3.85%) NIST 800
6 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) QRadar
2 2 (7.69%) FortiGate
2 2 (7.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 10 (38.46%) Palo Alto
3 8 (30.77%) Google
4 7 (26.92%) Splunk
5 3 (11.54%) ArcSight
6 2 (7.69%) IBM
6 2 (7.69%) LogRhythm
6 2 (7.69%) Ribbon
6 2 (7.69%) Tenable
7 1 (3.85%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (3.85%) Darktrace
7 1 (3.85%) VMware