Threat Detection Contracts in Birmingham

Threat Detection
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 55 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.36% 0.15% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £625 £635 -
% change year-on-year -1.57% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Threat Detection 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 491 559 714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.21% 81.96% 83.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 391 485
10th Percentile £164 £225 £263
25th Percentile £325 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.27%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £623
90th Percentile £639 £738 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 17 23
10th Percentile - £13.70 £12.74
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.50 £15.57
Median hourly rate £18.87 £40.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -52.83% +58.42% +41.46%
75th Percentile £22.08 £52.50 £30.52
90th Percentile £26.89 £56.25 £88.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £22.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +8.18% -16.67% +54.29%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in Birmingham

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in Birmingham

Threat Detection
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DSL
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Behavioural Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Security Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) QRadar
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kibana
2 1 (50.00%) logstash
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft