Security Operations Contracts in Birmingham

Security Operations (SecOps)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations 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 44 52 62
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +22
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 6 15 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.15% 1.94% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 2.33% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £400 - £494
25th Percentile £431 £388 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -13.46% +13.04%
75th Percentile £581 £700 -
90th Percentile £625 - £706
West Midlands median daily rate £563 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Security Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Birmingham

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in Birmingham

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in Birmingham

Security Operations
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 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Akamai
2 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Responder
1 2 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Security Incident Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Business Case
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Compliance Management
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) OWASP
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CEH
2 1 (16.67%) CISM
2 1 (16.67%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GRC
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Ariba
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) Imperva
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow