SOC Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Operations Centre Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £615 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 138 164
Rank change year-on-year +33 +26 -41
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 9 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.47% 0.17% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.18% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £600 £636 -
25th Percentile £606 £653 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £688 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% - -
75th Percentile £626 £719 -
90th Percentile £630 £753 -
England median daily rate £600 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -14.29% +33.33% +23.53%

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 1,763 2,276 3,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 94.79% 96.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,186 1,566 2,513
10th Percentile £258 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 68 85
10th Percentile £11.97 £12.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.07 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £42.50 £26.19 £20.00
90th Percentile £56.00 £54.88 £23.15
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Engineer in the West Midlands

SOC Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SOC Engineer in the West Midlands

SOC Engineer
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 Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 - 2 £600 -
Warwickshire +3 1 £625 -5.66%
SOC Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, SOC Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) SIEM
1 8 (88.89%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (77.78%) Firewall
2 7 (77.78%) CompTIA Security+
2 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 6 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (66.67%) Network Security
4 5 (55.56%) Degree
4 5 (55.56%) Computer Science
4 5 (55.56%) CISSP
4 5 (55.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (55.56%) Cloud Security
5 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
5 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
5 4 (44.44%) Security Posture
5 4 (44.44%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (44.44%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (44.44%) Analytics
5 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
5 4 (44.44%) Azure
6 3 (33.33%) LogRhythm
6 3 (33.33%) Data Analytics
6 3 (33.33%) TippingPoint
6 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
6 3 (33.33%) GIAC

SOC Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
2 6 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 6 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (44.44%) Security Posture
3 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
4 2 (22.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
4 2 (22.22%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (88.89%) SIEM
2 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (66.67%) Security Operations
4 5 (55.56%) Cloud Security
4 5 (55.56%) Computer Science
5 4 (44.44%) Analytics
5 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
6 3 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 3 (33.33%) Data Analytics
6 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (33.33%) Threat Detection
6 3 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
7 2 (22.22%) Change Control
7 2 (22.22%) High Availability
7 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
7 2 (22.22%) ITIL
7 2 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 2 (22.22%) Network Architecture
7 2 (22.22%) Offensive Security
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (55.56%) CISSP
3 5 (55.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (55.56%) Degree
4 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (33.33%) GIAC
6 2 (22.22%) BC Cleared
6 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (22.22%) CASP
6 2 (22.22%) GCED
6 2 (22.22%) GSEC
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) LogRhythm
2 3 (33.33%) TippingPoint
3 2 (22.22%) Citrix
3 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 2 (22.22%) Trend Micro
4 1 (11.11%) Splunk