SOAR Contracts

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 528 757
Rank change year-on-year +69 +229 -73
Contract jobs citing SOAR 120 156 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.28% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.31% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 122 70
10th Percentile £513 £413 £413
25th Percentile £525 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% +4.53%
75th Percentile £625 £722 £654
90th Percentile £710 £775 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £500 £537
% change year-on-year +14.00% -6.80% +11.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 £97.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -58.97% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SOAR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the UK

SOAR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAR.

Daily rate trend for SOAR in the UK

SOAR
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAR over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOAR in the UK

SOAR
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOAR.

Hourly rate trend for SOAR in the UK

SOAR
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 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
England +89 117 £570 -3.88% 29
UK excluding London +59 101 £570 +14.00% 17
South West +52 81 £570 +20.00% 1
Work from Home +72 25 £625 +8.70% 11
South East +27 20 £621 -4.42% 6
North of England +15 19 £600 +1.14% 7
Yorkshire +13 16 £641 +2.56% 3
London +66 13 £650 - 11
Midlands +29 7 £538 -13.92%
West Midlands +20 6 £538 -
North West +10 3 £600 +1.18% 4
Scotland +26 1 £425 -5.56% 2
East Midlands +9 1 - -

SOAR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (17.50%) Azure
2 8 (6.67%) AWS
3 4 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (3.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (2.50%) IaaS
5 2 (1.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.67%) GCP
5 2 (1.67%) PaaS
5 2 (1.67%) SaaS
6 1 (0.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.83%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) Firewall
2 2 (1.67%) Network Security
2 2 (1.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.67%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.83%) Big Data
1 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (7.50%) JIRA
2 1 (0.83%) Git
General
1 76 (63.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.17%) Telecoms
3 8 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.83%) Finance
4 7 (5.83%) Legal
4 7 (5.83%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.67%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Aviation
6 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Law
6 1 (0.83%) Military
6 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (51.67%) Analyst
2 25 (20.83%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 18 (15.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 18 (15.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 15 (12.50%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 12 (10.00%) Lead
6 11 (9.17%) SOC Engineer
7 10 (8.33%) Security Engineer
8 9 (7.50%) Compliance Analyst
8 9 (7.50%) Data Analyst
8 9 (7.50%) Data Compliance Analyst
9 7 (5.83%) Architect
9 7 (5.83%) SOC Analyst
10 6 (5.00%) Senior
11 4 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) Security Architect
11 4 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.33%) Vulnerability Analyst
12 3 (2.50%) Incident Analyst
12 3 (2.50%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.67%) OAuth
2 2 (1.67%) OpenID
2 2 (1.67%) SAML
3 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.83%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.83%) Kafka
3 1 (0.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 68 (56.67%) Cyber Threat
2 53 (44.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 52 (43.33%) Cyber Defence
4 41 (34.17%) Management Information System
5 12 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (5.83%) Cloud Native
6 7 (5.83%) Security Posture
7 6 (5.00%) Private Cloud
8 5 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (3.33%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.83%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.17%) Linux
1 5 (4.17%) Windows
2 2 (1.67%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (86.67%) SIEM
2 87 (72.50%) Cybersecurity
3 76 (63.33%) Threat Intelligence
4 74 (61.67%) Incident Response
5 73 (60.83%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 65 (54.17%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 60 (50.00%) Use Case
8 59 (49.17%) Incident Management
9 55 (45.83%) Information Security
10 52 (43.33%) Root Cause Analysis
11 50 (41.67%) Case Management
12 47 (39.17%) CRM
12 47 (39.17%) Protective Monitoring
13 44 (36.67%) Mentoring
14 41 (34.17%) Security Operations
15 23 (19.17%) Malware Analysis
15 23 (19.17%) Open Source
16 22 (18.33%) OSINT
17 20 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
18 18 (15.00%) Cyber Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.67%) Python
2 7 (5.83%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.67%) Bash
4 2 (1.67%) Bicep
4 2 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.83%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (71.67%) Security Cleared
2 73 (60.83%) DV Cleared
3 11 (9.17%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.17%) CEH
4 5 (4.17%) CISSP
4 5 (4.17%) Degree
5 3 (2.50%) CISM
6 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.67%) CREST Certified
6 2 (1.67%) GCIH
6 2 (1.67%) GIAC
6 2 (1.67%) SANS
7 1 (0.83%) CISA
7 1 (0.83%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.83%) GCIA
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (48.33%) NIST
2 50 (41.67%) NIST 800
3 8 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.33%) NCSC
5 2 (1.67%) GDPR
5 2 (1.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.83%) Snort
1 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (7.50%) Kibana
1 9 (7.50%) logstash
2 4 (3.33%) Terraform
2 4 (3.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 3 (2.50%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.83%) Ansible
4 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.83%) Nessus
4 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 65 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.33%) Splunk
3 9 (7.50%) Tanium
4 3 (2.50%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.67%) Google
5 2 (1.67%) Rapid7
5 2 (1.67%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.67%) Sophos
6 1 (0.83%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.83%) Carbon Black
6 1 (0.83%) Cisco
6 1 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.83%) ForeScout
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.83%) VMware