Security Operations Centre Contracts in the Midlands

Security Operations Centre
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 105 148
Rank change year-on-year -3 +43 +47
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 3 28 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 1.02% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 3.27% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 11
10th Percentile - £489 £375
25th Percentile - £592 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £618 £657
Median % change year-on-year -14.98% -5.94% +19.36%
75th Percentile £563 £672 £763
90th Percentile £585 £850 £775
England median daily rate £544 £615 £613
% change year-on-year -11.59% +0.41% -1.21%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 580 857 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.30% 31.08% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 557 737
10th Percentile £200 £220 £237
25th Percentile £375 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £594 £611 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 62 41
10th Percentile - £10.47 £16.70
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.93 £18.13
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £30.34 £28.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in the Midlands

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in the Midlands

Security Operations Centre
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 Operations Centre within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 -9 3 £525 -14.98% 4
Security Operations Centre
England

Security Operations Centre
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 (33.33%) Akamai
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Responder
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Security Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Security Incident Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CEH
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Imperva