Security Operations Centre Contracts in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 55 70
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 +23
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 3 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.57% 1.55% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 5.13% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - - £399
25th Percentile - £388 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.76% +9.33%
75th Percentile £563 £700 £584
90th Percentile £585 - £616
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £618 £650
% change year-on-year -14.98% -5.00% +15.56%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 145 234 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.78% 30.27% 35.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 155 206
10th Percentile £160 £260 £263
25th Percentile £349 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £601 £575 £648
90th Percentile £675 £718 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 8
10th Percentile £30.05 £18.88 £14.10
25th Percentile £30.11 £22.33 £17.44
Median hourly rate £30.45 £26.00 £22.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +16.32% +26.29%
75th Percentile £30.68 £40.81 £64.69
90th Percentile - £54.80 £98.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Centre in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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%) Akamai
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Responder
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Security Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Security Incident Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CEH
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Imperva