Security Monitoring Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Monitoring
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Security Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Monitoring 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 103 118 165
Rank change year-on-year +15 +47 -34
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 12 13 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.62% 0.58% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.66% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 7
10th Percentile £189 - £500
25th Percentile £296 £325 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £575 £650 £694
90th Percentile - £813 £800
England median daily rate £500 £586 £555
% change year-on-year -14.68% +5.59% +0.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Security Monitoring 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,604 1,976 3,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.94% 87.86% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 1,343 2,355
10th Percentile £263 £263 £277
25th Percentile £372 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £586
90th Percentile £741 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 49 61
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.22 £13.70 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +23.35% +11.48%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Security Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in the West Midlands

Security Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Security Monitoring in the West Midlands

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in the West Midlands

Security Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Monitoring within the West Midlands 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
Worcestershire +10 5 £550 +4.76%
Birmingham +16 3 £200 - 1
Solihull -11 3 £175 -
Security Monitoring
England

Security Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure App Service
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) DHCP
2 5 (41.67%) SD-WAN
2 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
2 5 (41.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) NUnit
1 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Retail
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) WAN Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Unix
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (41.67%) Information Management
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (41.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 5 (41.67%) Security Hardening
2 5 (41.67%) SIEM
2 5 (41.67%) Systems Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Virtual Environments
2 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (8.33%) Agile
3 1 (8.33%) API Management
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (41.67%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) ISO 9000
1 5 (41.67%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (41.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) SCCM
1 5 (41.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco
1 5 (41.67%) Veeam
1 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) Fujitsu
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft