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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 52 47
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +37
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Security Operations 2 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.34% 1.99% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 2.44% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 12
10th Percentile £623 £433 £504
25th Percentile £638 £500 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £713 £823 £691
90th Percentile £728 - £749
West Midlands median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £63.25
25th Percentile - - £64.38
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £69.38
90th Percentile - - £69.75
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £67.50

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 510 573 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.93% 81.39% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 387 480
10th Percentile £182 £200 £269
25th Percentile £363 £384 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £625
90th Percentile £639 £750 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 13 27
10th Percentile - £14.30 £13.22
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.50 £19.37
Median hourly rate £18.87 £37.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.68% +36.36% +57.14%
75th Percentile £22.08 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.89 £56.00 £81.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £19.99 £27.50
% change year-on-year +21.79% -27.33% +62.60%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Security Operations
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Security Operations

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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Services Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Behavioural Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery Management
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) GCIH
2 1 (50.00%) GIAC
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk