Security Operations Centre Contract Job Trends 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 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 63 52
Rank change year-on-year -3 -11 +37
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 6 3 21
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.84% 0.42% 2.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 1.60% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £440 £582 £523
25th Percentile - £666 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £815 £650
Median % change year-on-year -38.65% +25.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £823 £713
90th Percentile £663 - £751
West Midlands median daily rate £588 £635 £625
% change year-on-year -7.48% +1.60% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £68.13
90th Percentile - - £69.25
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £65.00

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 311 188 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 43.50% 26.04% 37.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 116 174
10th Percentile £245 £158 £265
25th Percentile £388 £380 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -2.70%
75th Percentile £538 £653 £575
90th Percentile £600 £738 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 11
10th Percentile - £19.65 £31.04
25th Percentile - £24.00 £62.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.45 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% -53.15% +230.96%
75th Percentile - £53.94 £67.50
90th Percentile £23.53 £57.53 £68.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +30.43% +17.95%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Operations Centre relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Security Operations Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Security Operations Centre

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations Centre in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations Centre in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) IT Security Officer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Officer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Services Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS X
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 5 (83.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 4 (66.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (50.00%) Threat Detection
4 3 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) ITSM
5 2 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (33.33%) Threat Management
5 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
6 1 (16.67%) Major Incident Management
6 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery Management
6 1 (16.67%) Threat Analysis
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CISSP
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 2 (33.33%) Tenable
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk