Security Monitoring Contracts in the Midlands

Security Monitoring
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Security Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Monitoring over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 148 198
Rank change year-on-year +20 +50 -49
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 11 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.40% 0.41% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.46% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 8
10th Percentile £262 £325 £491
25th Percentile £426 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +4.44% -2.17%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £641
90th Percentile - £801 £800
England median daily rate £500 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -16.67% +2.13% +6.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Security Monitoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,242 3,040 4,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.18% 88.37% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,119 3,305
10th Percentile £238 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 154
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.15
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.51
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.32% +9.31%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.08
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £33.60
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Security Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Monitoring in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Security Monitoring in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Monitoring within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +27 11 £550 -6.38% 1
Security Monitoring
England

Security Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) DNS
2 5 (45.45%) DHCP
2 5 (45.45%) SD-WAN
2 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
2 5 (45.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) NUnit
1 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) WAN Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (36.36%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (45.45%) Unix
2 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Information Management
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (45.45%) Proactive Monitoring
2 5 (45.45%) Security Hardening
2 5 (45.45%) SIEM
2 5 (45.45%) Systems Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Virtual Environments
2 5 (45.45%) Visualisation
3 1 (9.09%) Agile
3 1 (9.09%) API Management
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C#
2 5 (45.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) ISO 9000
1 5 (45.45%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (45.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) SCCM
1 5 (45.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco
1 5 (45.45%) Veeam
1 5 (45.45%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Fujitsu
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft