CSOC Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CSOC in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSOC over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 393 497
Rank change year-on-year +37 +104 -66
Contract jobs citing CSOC 45 37 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.16% 0.023%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 0.51% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 7
10th Percentile - £463 £548
25th Percentile £463 £519 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £580
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.76% +22.75%
75th Percentile £697 £763 £631
90th Percentile £700 - £673
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% +9.52%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

CSOC falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

CSOC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CSOC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CSOC in the UK excluding London

CSOC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CSOC in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CSOC in the UK excluding London

CSOC
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSOC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CSOC in the UK excluding London

CSOC
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSOC within the UK excluding London 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
South West - 40 £500 -
South East +18 4 £278 -30.50% 4
East of England - 1 - -
CSOC
UK

CSOC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (4.44%) Azure
2 1 (2.22%) AWS
2 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Firewall
General
1 6 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.22%) Electronics
2 1 (2.22%) Finance
2 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.22%) Marketing
2 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (64.44%) Analyst
2 28 (62.22%) SOC Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) SOC Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) SOC Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Security Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Lead
6 2 (4.44%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.44%) SIEM Analyst
7 1 (2.22%) SIEM Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Subject Matter Expert
Miscellaneous
1 39 (86.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 10 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (91.11%) Security Operations
3 34 (75.56%) Incident Response
4 28 (62.22%) Use Case
5 26 (57.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (57.78%) SIEM
6 25 (55.56%) Analytics
7 22 (48.89%) Time Management
8 12 (26.67%) Information Security
8 12 (26.67%) ITIL
8 12 (26.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 10 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
10 4 (8.89%) Cyber Resilience
11 3 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 2 (4.44%) DevOps
12 2 (4.44%) Security Architecture
12 2 (4.44%) Vulnerability Management
13 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 1 (2.22%) Line Management
13 1 (2.22%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 35 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 34 (75.56%) DV Cleared
3 24 (53.33%) SANS
4 23 (51.11%) Degree
5 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.22%) GDPR
2 9 (20.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.22%) Darktrace
2 1 (2.22%) FireEye
2 1 (2.22%) SAP