SOC Analyst Contracts in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre Analyst
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Security Operations Centre Analyst daily rate in Birmingham is £318, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 38 55
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 +39
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Analyst 3 22 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.54% 3.24% 2.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 3.40% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 12
10th Percentile £304 £368 £458
25th Percentile £309 £406 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -39.43% -1.87% +12.63%
75th Percentile £327 £675 £651
90th Percentile £332 £700 £673
West Midlands median daily rate £318 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -39.43% +0.96% -0.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 497 647 853
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.87% 95.29% 96.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 460 588
10th Percentile £164 £250 £260
25th Percentile £313 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £641 £725 £713
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 19 27
10th Percentile - £14.10 £13.22
25th Percentile £12.62 £15.75 £15.94
Median hourly rate £14.00 £37.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.67% +82.93% +14.85%
75th Percentile £22.08 £49.38 £28.46
90th Percentile £26.89 £56.25 £78.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £19.59 £20.50
% change year-on-year +24.25% -4.44% +13.89%

SOC Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured SOC Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for SOC Analyst in Birmingham

SOC Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOC Analyst in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for SOC Analyst in Birmingham

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, SOC Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring SOC Analyst in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Internet
1 2 (66.67%) Protective Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Cyberattack
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (33.33%) Snort
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS X

SOC Analyst Skill Set
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:

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 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS X
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Snort
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
25 SOC Analyst jobs in England