Hybrid/Remote SOC Manager Contract Job Trends

Security Operations Centre Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Operations Centre Manager daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
19 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 313 369
Rank change year-on-year +14 +56 +175
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Manager 15 1 5
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.15% 0.009% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.009% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile - - £681
25th Percentile £625 £525 £709
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £953 £575 £775
90th Percentile £1,139 - -
UK median daily rate £700 £600 £688
% change year-on-year +16.67% -12.73% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.75 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £62.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 9,533 10,861 16,124
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 93.14% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,194 6,881 11,057
10th Percentile £329 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 197 360
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.50 £17.59
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.50 £27.19
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.00 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -30.52% -3.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.55
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% -23.60% +48.33%

SOC Manager
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SOC Manager' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SOC Manager job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

SOC Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid SOC Manager job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid SOC Manager job vacancies

SOC Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SOC Manager over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

SOC Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

SOC Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, SOC Manager 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring SOC Manager in the job title.

1 13 (86.67%) Incident Response
1 13 (86.67%) Security Operations
2 8 (53.33%) SIEM
3 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (33.33%) Google
4 4 (26.67%) SOAR
4 4 (26.67%) Splunk
4 4 (26.67%) Threat Detection
5 3 (20.00%) CISSP
5 3 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (20.00%) NIST
5 3 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (13.33%) AWS
6 2 (13.33%) Bash
6 2 (13.33%) CEH
6 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (13.33%) CISM
6 2 (13.33%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
6 2 (13.33%) Contingency Planning
6 2 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
6 2 (13.33%) Digital Forensics
6 2 (13.33%) Firewall
6 2 (13.33%) GCIH

SOC Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Internet
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) HTTP
2 1 (6.67%) SMTP
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Housing
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (13.33%) PKI
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Incident Response
1 13 (86.67%) Security Operations
2 8 (53.33%) SIEM
3 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (26.67%) SOAR
4 4 (26.67%) Threat Detection
5 3 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
6 2 (13.33%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (13.33%) Threat Management
6 2 (13.33%) Use Case
6 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Bash
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CISSP
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) CEH
2 2 (13.33%) CISM
2 2 (13.33%) GCIH
3 1 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (6.67%) CCNA
3 1 (6.67%) CCSP
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) GCIA
3 1 (6.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) NIST
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) GRC
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) QRadar
2 1 (6.67%) CSIRT
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Nessus
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Google
2 4 (26.67%) Splunk
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (6.67%) Darktrace
4 1 (6.67%) Qualys
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