SOC Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 - 94
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.26% - 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £600 - -
25th Percentile £600 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £615 £688 -
% change year-on-year -10.55% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 706 865 1,266
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 96.33% 95.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 577 928
10th Percentile £250 £263 £207
25th Percentile £325 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 23
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.40 £12.55
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.42% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.25 £19.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +17.11% +11.76% +6.25%

SOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for SOC Engineer in Birmingham

SOC Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for SOC Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, SOC Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) GSEC
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Taxonomies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) TippingPoint
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) BC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Trend Micro
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) GCED
1 2 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) CASP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector

SOC Engineer 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (100.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) CASP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) GCED
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) GSEC
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) TippingPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Trend Micro