Security Operations Centre Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Security Operations Centre
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 74 85
Rank change year-on-year -48 +11 +26
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 1 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.050% 0.98% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 2.94% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £456 £571
25th Percentile £525 £556 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £688
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -9.09% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £775 £753
90th Percentile - - £774
North West median daily rate £493 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -17.92% -2.04% -2.00%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Security Operations Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 687 340 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.68% 33.43% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 224 198
10th Percentile £358 £312 £321
25th Percentile £420 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £684 £808
North West median daily rate £500 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +9.77% -8.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 17 23
10th Percentile £18.87 £28.25 £16.11
25th Percentile £28.50 £34.50 £21.63
Median hourly rate £45.50 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% +22.22% +100.00%
75th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £60.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.00 £96.60
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £43.86 £31.00
% change year-on-year +0.24% +41.47% -22.50%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Operations Centre relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in Manchester

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Security Operations Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Security Operations Centre

Security Operations Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft