SOAR Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SOAR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 66 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing SOAR 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.41% 0.41% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £361 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile £617 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £773 £625
% change year-on-year -32.69% +23.60% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

SOAR 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 654 626 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 88.98% 85.64% 84.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 416 422
10th Percentile £238 £198 £285
25th Percentile £370 £381 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 16 19
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.81
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -45.05% +205.56%
75th Percentile £23.50 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.51 £56.25 £67.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £21.80 £24.60
% change year-on-year -7.09% -11.40% +38.98%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

SOAR job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SOAR
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAR in Birmingham over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOAR in Birmingham

SOAR
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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Snort
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Foundry
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
SOAR jobs