SOAR Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SOAR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOAR over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 351 492
Rank change year-on-year +57 +141 -58
Contract jobs citing SOAR 100 91 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.40% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.45% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 76 18
10th Percentile £513 £413 £331
25th Percentile £525 £447 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 £537
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -6.80% +11.77%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £622
90th Percentile £690 £744 £706
UK median daily rate £570 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% +4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £97.50 -
% change year-on-year -58.97% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

SOAR is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,263 20,432 27,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.19% 89.17% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,230 14,021 19,224
10th Percentile £246 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £580
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 1,241 1,350
10th Percentile £12.41 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.28
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the UK excluding London

SOAR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SOAR in the UK excluding London

SOAR
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAR in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAR in the UK excluding London

SOAR
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 SOAR within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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 +52 80 £570 +20.00% 1
South East +31 20 £621 -4.42% 7
North of England +13 19 £600 +1.14% 7
Yorkshire +7 16 £641 +2.56% 3
Midlands +28 7 £538 -13.92%
West Midlands +21 6 £538 -
North West +4 3 £600 +1.18% 4
Scotland +31 1 £425 -5.56% 2
East Midlands +9 1 - -
SOAR
UK

SOAR
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 18 (18.00%) Azure
2 8 (8.00%) AWS
3 4 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (2.00%) GCP
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.00%) IaaS
5 1 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.00%) PaaS
5 1 (1.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) Firewall
1 1 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.00%) Big Data
1 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (9.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) Git
General
1 72 (72.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.00%) Telecoms
3 7 (7.00%) Legal
3 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.00%) Finance
6 2 (2.00%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.00%) Aviation
7 1 (1.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 53 (53.00%) Analyst
2 21 (21.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 18 (18.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 18 (18.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 14 (14.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 12 (12.00%) Lead
6 9 (9.00%) Compliance Analyst
6 9 (9.00%) Data Analyst
6 9 (9.00%) Data Compliance Analyst
7 8 (8.00%) SOC Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Security Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) SOC Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) Architect
11 3 (3.00%) Incident Analyst
11 3 (3.00%) Security Architect
11 3 (3.00%) SIEM Analyst
12 2 (2.00%) Developer
12 2 (2.00%) Technologist
13 1 (1.00%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.00%) OAuth
2 2 (2.00%) OpenID
2 2 (2.00%) SAML
3 1 (1.00%) Kafka
3 1 (1.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 63 (63.00%) Cyber Threat
2 49 (49.00%) Cyber Defence
2 49 (49.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 40 (40.00%) Management Information System
4 9 (9.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (7.00%) Security Posture
6 6 (6.00%) Cloud Native
6 6 (6.00%) Private Cloud
7 5 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (4.00%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.00%) Linux
1 3 (3.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (88.00%) SIEM
2 78 (78.00%) Cybersecurity
3 67 (67.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 67 (67.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 64 (64.00%) Incident Response
5 60 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 56 (56.00%) Incident Management
7 55 (55.00%) Use Case
8 49 (49.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 47 (47.00%) Case Management
10 46 (46.00%) Information Security
11 44 (44.00%) CRM
11 44 (44.00%) Protective Monitoring
12 42 (42.00%) Mentoring
13 31 (31.00%) Security Operations
14 22 (22.00%) Open Source
15 21 (21.00%) Malware Analysis
15 21 (21.00%) OSINT
16 18 (18.00%) Cyber Intelligence
17 13 (13.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.00%) Python
2 2 (2.00%) Bash
3 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 79 (79.00%) Security Cleared
2 68 (68.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.00%) CEH
4 3 (3.00%) Degree
5 2 (2.00%) CISSP
5 2 (2.00%) CREST Certified
5 2 (2.00%) SANS
6 1 (1.00%) CISM
6 1 (1.00%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.00%) GCIH
6 1 (1.00%) GIAC
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (52.00%) NIST
2 47 (47.00%) NIST 800
3 5 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.00%) NCSC
5 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (9.00%) Kibana
1 9 (9.00%) logstash
2 4 (4.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 2 (2.00%) Terraform
4 1 (1.00%) Ansible
4 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.00%) Nessus
4 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 60 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.00%) Splunk
3 9 (9.00%) Tanium
4 2 (2.00%) Rapid7
4 2 (2.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (2.00%) Sophos
5 1 (1.00%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.00%) Carbon Black
5 1 (1.00%) Cisco
5 1 (1.00%) ForeScout
5 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.00%) VMware