SOAR Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring SOAR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 95 103
Rank change year-on-year -26 +8 +44
Contract jobs citing SOAR 5 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.30% 0.21% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.25% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £479 £655 £548
25th Percentile £506 £663 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.96% +17.39% +70.37%
75th Percentile £556 £688 £775
90th Percentile £564 £695 £844
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +7.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,504 1,207 1,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.95% 84.52% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 972 695 1,158
10th Percentile £263 £288 £300
25th Percentile £380 £404 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £620
90th Percentile £650 £654 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 39 29
10th Percentile £17.36 - £14.89
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -10.84% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £26.78
90th Percentile £75.50 £50.25 £44.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOAR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

SOAR job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SOAR
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SOAR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SOAR

SOAR
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire -7 5 £520 -20.00% 4
SOAR
England

SOAR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Security Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (80.00%) SIEM
1 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Application Security
3 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) GCIH
2 2 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (40.00%) GCIA
2 2 (40.00%) GIAC
2 2 (40.00%) SSCP
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) NIST 800
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) McAfee
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Rapid7
3 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (20.00%) Darktrace
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk