SOC Analyst Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre Analyst
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Security Operations Centre Analyst daily rate in Birmingham is £368, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 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
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 55 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 -12 +53
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Analyst 5 11 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.84% 1.55% 3.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 1.61% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 16
10th Percentile £311 - £458
25th Percentile £327 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -38.67% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £450 £700 £651
90th Percentile £540 - £681
West Midlands median daily rate £368 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -38.67% +9.09% -
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 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 531 682 803
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.39% 96.19% 96.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 445 536
10th Percentile £175 £203 £260
25th Percentile £350 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £555 £625 £600
90th Percentile £649 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -1.60% +2.56% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 15 26
10th Percentile - £15.53 £13.10
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.88 £15.22
Median hourly rate £14.00 £43.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.44% +126.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £26.51 £53.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £33.72 £56.45 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.59 £22.10
% change year-on-year +16.49% -2.31% +22.78%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SOC Analyst job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SOC Analyst job vacancies in Birmingham

SOC Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOC Analyst in Birmingham over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOC Analyst in Birmingham

SOC Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 22 September 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 3 (60.00%) SIEM
1 3 (60.00%) Protective Monitoring
1 3 (60.00%) Cyberattack
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) Mac OS X
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) QRadar
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) SOAR
3 1 (20.00%) Snort
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script

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 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Protective Monitoring
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk