SOC Engineer Contracts in Wiltshire

Security Operations Centre Engineer
South West > Wiltshire

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in Wiltshire is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 81 74
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 16 12 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 1.65% 1.12% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.86% 1.19% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 6
10th Percentile £594 £611 £631
25th Percentile £600 £708 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +7.41% -
75th Percentile £700 £738 £713
90th Percentile - - £719
South West median daily rate £638 £725 £675
% change year-on-year -12.07% +7.41% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 860 1,007 833
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.57% 94.02% 95.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 827 627
10th Percentile £305 £350 £304
25th Percentile £463 £458 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £638
90th Percentile £725 £723 £690
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 21
10th Percentile £12.79 £21.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.25 £60.00 £25.25
Median hourly rate £16.50 £63.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.81% +16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £87.50 £69.50
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £64.57 £45.17
% change year-on-year -14.82% +42.95% +1.51%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Engineer in Wiltshire

SOC Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC Engineer in Wiltshire.

Daily rate trend for SOC Engineer in Wiltshire

SOC Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Engineer in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Engineer in Wiltshire

SOC Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOC Engineer within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Corsham -8 13 £675 -6.90%
SOC Engineer
South West

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, SOC Engineer 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 Wiltshire region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (87.50%) Incident Response
3 13 (81.25%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (75.00%) SIEM
4 12 (75.00%) Analytics
5 10 (62.50%) DV Cleared
6 9 (56.25%) SANS
6 9 (56.25%) Security Operations
6 9 (56.25%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (50.00%) CSOC
7 8 (50.00%) Degree
7 8 (50.00%) Time Management
7 8 (50.00%) Use Case
8 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
8 7 (43.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (37.50%) Azure
9 6 (37.50%) AWS
9 6 (37.50%) Splunk
10 5 (31.25%) SOAR
10 5 (31.25%) Security Posture
10 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
10 5 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (25.00%) Security Architecture
11 4 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
11 4 (25.00%) Log Analytics
11 4 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (25.00%) NCSC
11 4 (25.00%) NIST

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (50.00%) CSOC
3 5 (31.25%) Security Posture
4 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Incident Response
2 13 (81.25%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (75.00%) Analytics
3 12 (75.00%) SIEM
4 9 (56.25%) Security Operations
5 8 (50.00%) Time Management
5 8 (50.00%) Use Case
6 7 (43.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (31.25%) SOAR
8 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
8 4 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
8 4 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
8 4 (25.00%) Log Analytics
8 4 (25.00%) Security Architecture
8 4 (25.00%) Threat Detection
8 4 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
9 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
9 1 (6.25%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) Python
1 1 (6.25%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (62.50%) DV Cleared
3 9 (56.25%) SANS
4 8 (50.00%) Degree
5 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
6 1 (6.25%) CEH
6 1 (6.25%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (25.00%) NCSC
1 4 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Splunk
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) Dell
3 1 (6.25%) HP