SOC Analyst Contracts in England

Security Operations Centre Analyst
UK > England

The median Security Operations Centre Analyst daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 512 704
Rank change year-on-year +136 +192 -98
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Analyst 161 135 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.28% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.30% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 110 54
10th Percentile £406 £314 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% +20.00%
75th Percentile £650 £631 £594
90th Percentile £700 £759 £711
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - £64.70 -
25th Percentile - £67.63 £56.25
Median hourly rate £11.25 £75.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -85.00% +20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £77.63 £68.75
90th Percentile - £77.70 -
UK median hourly rate £11.25 £75.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -85.00% +20.00% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,809 45,522 67,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,413 32,346 47,872
10th Percentile £283 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,342 1,849
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

SOC Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SOC Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Analyst in England

SOC Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SOC Analyst in England

SOC Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Analyst in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Analyst in England

SOC Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOC Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for SOC Analyst in England

SOC Analyst
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 SOC Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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 +34 63 £550 +15.79% 3
Midlands +60 35 £525 +40.00% 3
West Midlands +56 35 £525 +50.00% 3
London +64 20 £508 -11.74% 10
East of England +6 18 £650 +8.33% 6
South East +12 13 £450 -25.00% 6
North of England +11 4 £450 -26.53% 8
North West +10 4 £450 -25.00% 1
SOC Analyst
UK

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 job ads across the England region featuring SOC Analyst in the job title.

1 111 (68.94%) Security Cleared
2 92 (57.14%) Security Operations
3 89 (55.28%) Cybersecurity
4 87 (54.04%) SIEM
5 78 (48.45%) Incident Response
6 64 (39.75%) Security Operations Centre
7 62 (38.51%) DV Cleared
8 42 (26.09%) SC Cleared
9 37 (22.98%) Use Case
9 37 (22.98%) Microsoft
9 37 (22.98%) Linux
10 35 (21.74%) Vulnerability Management
11 34 (21.12%) Azure
11 34 (21.12%) CSOC
12 33 (20.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 31 (19.25%) Splunk
13 31 (19.25%) Information Security
14 30 (18.63%) Firewall
15 29 (18.01%) Management Information System
15 29 (18.01%) Windows
15 29 (18.01%) Threat Intelligence
16 28 (17.39%) GDPR
17 25 (15.53%) LogRhythm
17 25 (15.53%) Degree
18 23 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
19 20 (12.42%) Incident Management
20 19 (11.80%) Threat Detection
20 19 (11.80%) Analytics
21 18 (11.18%) FireEye
21 18 (11.18%) SANS

SOC Analyst Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (10.56%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (21.12%) Azure
2 16 (9.94%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (3.73%) AWS
4 1 (0.62%) Azure Stack
4 1 (0.62%) IaaS
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.62%) PaaS
4 1 (0.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (18.63%) Firewall
2 6 (3.73%) Network Security
3 5 (3.11%) DNS
3 5 (3.11%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.86%) FTP
4 3 (1.86%) HTTP
4 3 (1.86%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (1.86%) SMTP
4 3 (1.86%) SSL
4 3 (1.86%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
General
1 18 (11.18%) Public Sector
2 15 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (9.32%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.21%) Legal
4 9 (5.59%) Finance
5 6 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.48%) Banking
7 3 (1.86%) Games
8 1 (0.62%) Electronics
8 1 (0.62%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.62%) Marketing
8 1 (0.62%) Police
8 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (1.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 64 (39.75%) Security Operations Centre
2 34 (21.12%) CSOC
3 29 (18.01%) Management Information System
4 17 (10.56%) Cyberattack
5 13 (8.07%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (6.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 11 (6.83%) Private Cloud
7 9 (5.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 8 (4.97%) Security Posture
9 6 (3.73%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (2.48%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.24%) CCTV
11 2 (1.24%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 37 (22.98%) Linux
2 29 (18.01%) Windows
3 12 (7.45%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (57.14%) Security Operations
2 89 (55.28%) Cybersecurity
3 87 (54.04%) SIEM
4 78 (48.45%) Incident Response
5 37 (22.98%) Use Case
6 35 (21.74%) Vulnerability Management
7 33 (20.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 31 (19.25%) Information Security
9 29 (18.01%) Threat Intelligence
10 23 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (12.42%) Incident Management
12 19 (11.80%) Analytics
12 19 (11.80%) Threat Detection
13 17 (10.56%) ITIL
14 16 (9.94%) Time Management
15 15 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (8.70%) Information Assurance
16 14 (8.70%) Risk Management
17 13 (8.07%) SOAR
17 13 (8.07%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.73%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (2.48%) Python
2 4 (2.48%) Search Processing Language
3 3 (1.86%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.62%) Bash
4 1 (0.62%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 111 (68.94%) Security Cleared
2 62 (38.51%) DV Cleared
3 42 (26.09%) SC Cleared
4 25 (15.53%) Degree
5 18 (11.18%) SANS
6 15 (9.32%) CISSP
7 7 (4.35%) CEH
8 6 (3.73%) CISM
8 6 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.48%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.86%) GIAC
11 2 (1.24%) CCNA
11 2 (1.24%) CCSP
11 2 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.24%) GCIA
11 2 (1.24%) GCIH
12 1 (0.62%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (17.39%) GDPR
2 17 (10.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (8.70%) NCSC
3 14 (8.70%) NIST
4 10 (6.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (6.21%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.48%) SLA
6 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.62%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (3.73%) Kibana
1 6 (3.73%) logstash
2 5 (3.11%) Nessus
2 5 (3.11%) QRadar
3 3 (1.86%) Nmap
4 2 (1.24%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 37 (22.98%) Microsoft
2 31 (19.25%) Splunk
3 25 (15.53%) LogRhythm
4 18 (11.18%) Darktrace
4 18 (11.18%) FireEye
5 7 (4.35%) Qualys
6 6 (3.73%) Forcepoint
6 6 (3.73%) Varonis
7 4 (2.48%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.86%) IronPort
8 3 (1.86%) Sage
8 3 (1.86%) Symantec
9 2 (1.24%) AlienVault
9 2 (1.24%) ArcSight
9 2 (1.24%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (1.24%) Oracle
9 2 (1.24%) Sun
10 1 (0.62%) SAP
10 1 (0.62%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.62%) Zscaler