Security Operations Centre Contracts in the North West

Security Operations Centre
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre 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 132 127 166
Rank change year-on-year -5 +39 -23
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 3 23 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.11% 0.76% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.43% 2.38% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 18 16
10th Percentile £553 £400 -
25th Percentile £559 £413 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £606 £725
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -16.41% +79.01%
75th Percentile £644 £640 £763
90th Percentile £648 £675 -
England median daily rate £600 £613 £620
% change year-on-year -2.04% -1.21% +33.33%

All Generic Skills
North West

Security Operations Centre 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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 695 967 1,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.89% 32.10% 35.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 633 1,075
10th Percentile £292 £295 £210
25th Percentile £413 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +16.71%
75th Percentile £581 £606 £588
90th Percentile £690 £675 £675
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 39 56
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.50 £11.63
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.11 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.50 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +42.86% +7.24%
75th Percentile £39.06 £58.18 £27.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £67.60 £61.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Security Operations Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in the North West

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Centre in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in the North West

Security Operations Centre
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations Centre within the North 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
Cheshire -15 2 £596 -3.17% 2
Manchester +7 1 £600 +9.09% 3
Security Operations Centre
England

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Insider Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Line Management
3 1 (33.33%) SOAR
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) UEBA
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) GIAC
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Carbon Black
2 1 (33.33%) Proofpoint
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler