Security Operations Centre Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Operations Centre
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 92 111 168
Rank change year-on-year +19 +57 -33
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 19 18 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.93% 0.81% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.03% 2.45% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 9
10th Percentile £388 £370 £485
25th Percentile £500 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% +15.91% -6.38%
75th Percentile £850 £759 £588
90th Percentile - £764 £1,100
England median daily rate £600 £613 £620
% change year-on-year -2.04% -1.21% +33.33%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 628 736 1,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.75% 33.26% 28.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 478 734
10th Percentile £271 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £646 £638 £588
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 22 18
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.77 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.71 £21.54 £15.06
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% +61.76% +3.37%
75th Percentile £40.38 £30.00 £23.25
90th Percentile £58.75 £57.13 £36.58
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in the West Midlands

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in the West Midlands

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations Centre in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations Centre in the West Midlands

Security Operations Centre
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 Operations Centre within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +20 14 £563 +12.50% 1
Herefordshire - 3 £800 -
Security Operations Centre
England

Security Operations Centre
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (26.32%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) Firewall
2 5 (26.32%) Network Security
3 3 (15.79%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Big Data
General
1 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Games
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Analyst
1 14 (73.68%) SOC Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Security Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Security Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cyber Defence
1 5 (26.32%) Cyberattack
2 3 (15.79%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Linux
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Android
2 3 (15.79%) Apple iOS
2 3 (15.79%) Unix
3 1 (5.26%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 11 (57.89%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (42.11%) SIEM
4 7 (36.84%) Incident Response
5 3 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (15.79%) Data Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Data Management
5 3 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (15.79%) Information Security
5 3 (15.79%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (15.79%) Security Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
6 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Threat Detection
6 2 (10.53%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (10.53%) CISSP
4 2 (10.53%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (10.53%) Degree
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Darktrace
1 5 (26.32%) FireEye
1 5 (26.32%) LogRhythm
1 5 (26.32%) Splunk
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Sage