SOC Engineer Contracts in the South West

Security Operations Centre Engineer
England > South West

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in the South West is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 147 163
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 17 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.52% 0.35% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.38% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 5
10th Percentile £578 £611 £630
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 - - £720
England median daily rate £600 £675 £525
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 3,056 3,142 3,474
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 92.74% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,896 2,308 2,517
10th Percentile £216 £284 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £620 £644 £600
90th Percentile £700 £721 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 252 212
10th Percentile £13.85 £17.70 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £48.68 £18.49
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.23 £47.64
Median % change year-on-year -13.02% +32.74% +10.78%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.13 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £68.29
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Engineer in the South West

SOC Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC Engineer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for SOC Engineer in the South West

SOC Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Engineer in the South West

SOC Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Wiltshire -2 15 £675 -6.90%
SOC Engineer
England

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 South West region featuring SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (88.24%) Incident Response
3 13 (76.47%) SIEM
3 13 (76.47%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (70.59%) Analytics
5 11 (64.71%) DV Cleared
5 11 (64.71%) Security Operations
5 11 (64.71%) Security Operations Centre
6 10 (58.82%) SANS
7 8 (47.06%) Azure
7 8 (47.06%) AWS
7 8 (47.06%) Degree
7 8 (47.06%) Use Case
7 8 (47.06%) Time Management
7 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
7 8 (47.06%) CSOC
8 7 (41.18%) SOAR
8 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (41.18%) Splunk
9 6 (35.29%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
10 5 (29.41%) Security Posture
11 4 (23.53%) Digital Strategy
11 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
11 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
11 4 (23.53%) Log Analytics
11 4 (23.53%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (23.53%) NCSC
11 4 (23.53%) NIST

SOC Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (47.06%) AWS
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (23.53%) AWS CloudTrail
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (47.06%) CSOC
3 5 (29.41%) Security Posture
4 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
4 4 (23.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Mac OS X
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Incident Response
2 13 (76.47%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (76.47%) SIEM
3 12 (70.59%) Analytics
4 11 (64.71%) Security Operations
5 8 (47.06%) Time Management
5 8 (47.06%) Use Case
6 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (41.18%) SOAR
7 6 (35.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
9 4 (23.53%) Digital Strategy
9 4 (23.53%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (23.53%) Log Analytics
9 4 (23.53%) Security Architecture
9 4 (23.53%) Threat Detection
10 2 (11.76%) Ethical Hacking
10 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 1 (5.88%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (64.71%) DV Cleared
3 10 (58.82%) SANS
4 8 (47.06%) Degree
4 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) CEH
5 2 (11.76%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (23.53%) NCSC
1 4 (23.53%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Splunk
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft