CSOC Contracts in England

Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CSOC in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CSOC over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 599 752
Rank change year-on-year +120 +153 -141
Contract jobs citing CSOC 52 41 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.085% 0.024%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.47% 0.25% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 26 7
10th Percentile - £488 £525
25th Percentile £463 £560 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +21.69%
75th Percentile £700 £745 £631
90th Percentile - £763 £673
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £575
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +15.00%

All Generic Skills
England

CSOC is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,144 16,209 23,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.60% 33.64% 33.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,307 11,283 17,040
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £697 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 571 628
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.16
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.60
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%

CSOC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CSOC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CSOC in England

CSOC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSOC in England.

Daily rate trend for CSOC in England

CSOC
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSOC in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CSOC in England

CSOC
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSOC within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
South West +48 46 £663 +6.00%
South East +35 3 £81 -79.75% 2
London +96 2 £713 +5.56%
East of England - 1 - -
CSOC
UK

CSOC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (1.92%) AWS
2 1 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) Firewall
General
1 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
2 6 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.92%) Back Office
3 1 (1.92%) Banking
3 1 (1.92%) Electronics
3 1 (1.92%) Finance
3 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.92%) Marketing
3 1 (1.92%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (67.31%) Analyst
2 34 (65.38%) SOC Analyst
3 8 (15.38%) SOC Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Security Analyst
4 5 (9.62%) SOC Manager
5 4 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Lead
6 2 (3.85%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.85%) SIEM Analyst
7 1 (1.92%) Consultant
7 1 (1.92%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 1 (1.92%) IT Analyst
7 1 (1.92%) IT Operations Analyst
7 1 (1.92%) IT Security Analyst
7 1 (1.92%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (1.92%) Security Consultant
7 1 (1.92%) Security Operations Analyst
7 1 (1.92%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 47 (90.38%) Security Operations Centre
2 15 (28.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (94.23%) Security Operations
3 39 (75.00%) Incident Response
4 32 (61.54%) Use Case
5 31 (59.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (51.92%) SIEM
7 25 (48.08%) Analytics
8 22 (42.31%) Time Management
9 18 (34.62%) ITIL
9 18 (34.62%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 17 (32.69%) Information Security
11 16 (30.77%) Threat Intelligence
12 9 (17.31%) Cyber Resilience
13 2 (3.85%) DevOps
13 2 (3.85%) Risk Management
13 2 (3.85%) Security Architecture
13 2 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management
13 2 (3.85%) Vulnerability Management
14 1 (1.92%) Digital Marketing
14 1 (1.92%) Investment Management
Qualifications
1 40 (76.92%) DV Cleared
1 40 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 24 (46.15%) SANS
3 23 (44.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (28.85%) GDPR
1 15 (28.85%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (1.92%) Darktrace
1 1 (1.92%) FireEye
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.92%) SAP