SOC Analyst Contracts in Hertfordshire

Security Operations Centre Analyst
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Security Operations Centre Analyst daily rate in Hertfordshire is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 50 72
Rank change year-on-year -6 +22 -7
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Analyst 18 21 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 2.14% 2.77% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.40% 3.00% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 4
10th Percentile £290 - £169
25th Percentile £588 £260 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £288
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +91.30% -52.08%
75th Percentile - £631 £441
90th Percentile £700 - £559
East of England median daily rate £650 £550 £288
% change year-on-year +18.18% +91.30% -52.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 749 699 718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.95% 92.34% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 385 451
10th Percentile £231 £211 £163
25th Percentile £313 £358 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £675 £613
90th Percentile £695 £765 £700
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 136 75
10th Percentile £39.43 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £49.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £44.08 £16.00
% change year-on-year -2.45% +175.50% -

SOC Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Analyst in Hertfordshire

SOC Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for SOC Analyst in Hertfordshire

SOC Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Analyst in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Analyst in Hertfordshire

SOC Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Stevenage - 17 £650 - 4
Watford - 1 £600 -
SOC Analyst
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 Hertfordshire region featuring SOC Analyst in the job title.

1 15 (83.33%) Splunk
1 15 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
1 15 (83.33%) LogRhythm
1 15 (83.33%) FireEye
1 15 (83.33%) Darktrace
2 14 (77.78%) Incident Response
2 14 (77.78%) CMS
2 14 (77.78%) Windows
2 14 (77.78%) Linux
3 12 (66.67%) Cyberattack
3 12 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 12 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
4 11 (61.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (22.22%) Symantec
5 4 (22.22%) LDAP
5 4 (22.22%) SMTP
5 4 (22.22%) FTP
5 4 (22.22%) HTTP
5 4 (22.22%) DNS
5 4 (22.22%) SSL
5 4 (22.22%) IronPort
6 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 2 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
7 1 (5.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 1 (5.56%) CSOC
7 1 (5.56%) ITIL
7 1 (5.56%) QRadar
7 1 (5.56%) SIEM

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 14 (77.78%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
1 4 (22.22%) FTP
1 4 (22.22%) HTTP
1 4 (22.22%) SMTP
1 4 (22.22%) SSL
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) Cyberattack
1 12 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 11 (61.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (5.56%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Linux
1 14 (77.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (77.78%) Incident Response
3 12 (66.67%) Security Operations
4 2 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL
5 1 (5.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (5.56%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Nessus
1 1 (5.56%) Nmap
1 1 (5.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Darktrace
1 15 (83.33%) FireEye
1 15 (83.33%) LogRhythm
1 15 (83.33%) Splunk
2 4 (22.22%) IronPort
2 4 (22.22%) Symantec
3 1 (5.56%) Sage