SOC Analyst Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Operations Centre Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Security Operations Centre Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 133 158
Rank change year-on-year +55 +25 -34
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Analyst 35 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.83% 0.17% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 0.18% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 12
10th Percentile £388 - £403
25th Percentile £406 £325 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £510
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -31.37% +56.92%
75th Percentile £666 £400 £550
90th Percentile £688 £415 £555
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +17.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,743 2,211 3,414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 94.89% 96.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,174 1,518 2,490
10th Percentile £259 £250 £225
25th Percentile £363 £388 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +5.26% +15.85%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £713 £694 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 64 78
10th Percentile £12.04 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.88 £14.37
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £41.13 £27.35 £19.97
90th Percentile £55.75 £56.38 £22.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

SOC Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured SOC Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Analyst in the West Midlands

SOC Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC Analyst in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SOC Analyst in the West Midlands

SOC Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Analyst in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Analyst in the West Midlands

SOC Analyst
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 SOC Analyst within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 May 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 +44 32 £525 +31.25% 5
SOC Analyst
England

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, SOC Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring SOC Analyst in the job title.

1 34 (97.14%) Security Cleared
2 26 (74.29%) SC Cleared
3 19 (54.29%) Firewall
4 18 (51.43%) Security Operations
5 17 (48.57%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (48.57%) SIEM
6 15 (42.86%) Linux
7 13 (37.14%) Security Operations Centre
8 12 (34.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 12 (34.29%) Incident Management
9 10 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (28.57%) HIPAA
9 10 (28.57%) Reverse Engineering
9 10 (28.57%) Mac OS X
9 10 (28.57%) Risk Management
9 10 (28.57%) Legal
9 10 (28.57%) Computer Forensics
9 10 (28.57%) Purple Team
9 10 (28.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (28.57%) Malware Reverse Engineering
9 10 (28.57%) GDPR
9 10 (28.57%) NIST
9 10 (28.57%) Threat Analysis
9 10 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
10 8 (22.86%) Threat Detection
11 7 (20.00%) Incident Response
12 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (14.29%) CMS
12 5 (14.29%) Splunk

SOC Analyst Skill Set
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 (14.29%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.71%) Azure
1 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 19 (54.29%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
General
1 10 (28.57%) Legal
2 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.57%) Games
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (37.14%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (14.29%) Cyberattack
3 2 (5.71%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (5.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (5.71%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (42.86%) Linux
2 10 (28.57%) Mac OS X
3 5 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Security Operations
2 17 (48.57%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (48.57%) SIEM
3 12 (34.29%) Incident Management
3 12 (34.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 10 (28.57%) Computer Forensics
4 10 (28.57%) Malware Reverse Engineering
4 10 (28.57%) Purple Team
4 10 (28.57%) Reverse Engineering
4 10 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 10 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 10 (28.57%) Threat Analysis
4 10 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
5 8 (22.86%) Threat Detection
6 7 (20.00%) Incident Response
7 5 (14.29%) Line Management
7 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (5.71%) Computer Science
8 2 (5.71%) Ethical Hacking
8 2 (5.71%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 34 (97.14%) Security Cleared
2 26 (74.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) CEH
3 2 (5.71%) CISSP
3 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.71%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 10 (28.57%) GDPR
1 10 (28.57%) HIPAA
1 10 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (28.57%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Kibana
1 2 (5.71%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Darktrace
1 5 (14.29%) FireEye
1 5 (14.29%) LogRhythm
1 5 (14.29%) Splunk
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Sage