SOC Analyst Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Operations Centre Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Operations Centre Analyst daily rate in Work from Home is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 431 573
Rank change year-on-year +104 +142 -123
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Analyst 19 41 50
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.17% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 30 28
10th Percentile £275 £325 £346
25th Percentile £363 £424 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £554
90th Percentile £575 £875 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £11.25 £68.15 £62.50
% change year-on-year -83.49% +9.04% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,287 24,650 42,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.33% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,551 17,415 30,835
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 564 611
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £22.84 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

SOC Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured SOC Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOC Analyst trend for jobs with a WFH option

SOC Analyst
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 SOC Analyst.

SOC Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOC Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SOC Analyst over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

SOC Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SOC Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOC Analyst.

SOC Analyst hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, SOC Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring SOC Analyst in the job title.

1 16 (84.21%) SIEM
2 10 (52.63%) Incident Response
3 9 (47.37%) Security Operations
3 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
4 8 (42.11%) Data Security
4 8 (42.11%) Vulnerability Management
5 7 (36.84%) LogRhythm
6 6 (31.58%) Data Loss Prevention
6 6 (31.58%) Management Information System
6 6 (31.58%) Forcepoint
6 6 (31.58%) Qualys
6 6 (31.58%) Varonis
7 5 (26.32%) Use Case
7 5 (26.32%) Splunk
8 4 (21.05%) Azure
8 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
8 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (21.05%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 4 (21.05%) Finance
9 3 (15.79%) Penetration Testing
9 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
9 3 (15.79%) Firewall
9 3 (15.79%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (15.79%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (10.53%) SOAR
10 2 (10.53%) CSOC
10 2 (10.53%) Threat Detection
10 2 (10.53%) Rapid7
10 2 (10.53%) CyberArk
10 2 (10.53%) CrowdStrike

SOC Analyst Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Sumo Logic
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.79%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (10.53%) CSOC
3 2 (10.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Mac OS X
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) SIEM
2 10 (52.63%) Incident Response
3 9 (47.37%) Security Operations
4 8 (42.11%) Data Security
4 8 (42.11%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (31.58%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (26.32%) Use Case
7 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (21.05%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
8 3 (15.79%) Penetration Testing
9 2 (10.53%) Blue Team
9 2 (10.53%) Change Management
9 2 (10.53%) Critical Thinking
9 2 (10.53%) Ethical Hacking
9 2 (10.53%) Information Security
9 2 (10.53%) ITIL
9 2 (10.53%) SOAR
9 2 (10.53%) Threat Detection
10 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) CCNA
3 1 (5.26%) CCSP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) SANS
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Nessus
1 1 (5.26%) Nmap
1 1 (5.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 7 (36.84%) LogRhythm
3 6 (31.58%) Forcepoint
3 6 (31.58%) Qualys
3 6 (31.58%) Varonis
4 5 (26.32%) Splunk
5 2 (10.53%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (10.53%) CyberArk
5 2 (10.53%) Rapid7