SOC Architect Contracts in England

Security Operations Centre Architect
UK > England

The median Security Operations Centre Architect daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 634 784
Rank change year-on-year +90 +150 -125
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Architect 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.004% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.005% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £575 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £725 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £650
% change year-on-year - - +44.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

SOC Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Architect in England

SOC Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SOC Architect in England

SOC Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Architect in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Architect in England

SOC Architect
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 Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
London - 6 £650 -
SOC Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, SOC Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Security Operations
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (50.00%) SOAR
3 3 (50.00%) CSIRT
4 2 (33.33%) NIST
4 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) GDPR
4 2 (33.33%) Information Security
5 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
5 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
5 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
5 1 (16.67%) CISSP
5 1 (16.67%) SCCP
5 1 (16.67%) Coaching
5 1 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
5 1 (16.67%) Retail
5 1 (16.67%) Google

SOC Architect 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Security Operations
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 3 (50.00%) SOAR
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Information Security
5 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
5 1 (16.67%) Project Governance
5 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) SIEM
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
5 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Ping Identity