Security Operations Contracts in the Midlands

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 99 108
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 +59
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 14 40 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.69% 1.44% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.76% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 29
10th Percentile £385 £478 £415
25th Percentile £494 £571 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £635 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -2.31% +10.64%
75th Percentile £613 £738 £750
90th Percentile £692 £850 £765
England median daily rate £575 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.04% +2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Security Operations 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,798 2,269 2,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.35% 81.53% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,181 1,527 1,998
10th Percentile £205 £234 £258
25th Percentile £356 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £639 £688 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 173 99
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £12.40
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £14.51
Median hourly rate £18.63 £19.00 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -15.22% +27.62%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £44.25
90th Percentile £47.00 £55.00 £59.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in the Midlands

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in the Midlands

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in the Midlands

Security Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Security Operations in the Midlands

Security Operations
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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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 -12 11 £600 -5.51% 167
East Midlands +12 3 £350 -38.27% 124
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
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 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Akamai
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (7.14%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 5 (35.71%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (7.14%) DKIM
3 1 (7.14%) Modbus
3 1 (7.14%) MQTT
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
1 4 (28.57%) Operations Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Security Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Security Architect
1 4 (28.57%) Security Operations Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Security Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Incident Responder
4 1 (7.14%) IoT Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Security Incident Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Security Technical Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Security Posture
2 4 (28.57%) Operational Technology
3 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (21.43%) SCADA
4 2 (14.29%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 2 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (7.14%) IoT
5 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) SIEM
2 7 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (35.71%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (21.43%) ITSM
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (14.29%) Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (14.29%) Data Security
6 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 2 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
6 2 (14.29%) User Experience
6 2 (14.29%) Workflow
7 1 (7.14%) Proactive Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
2 3 (21.43%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CISSP
2 3 (21.43%) CEH
2 3 (21.43%) CISM
3 1 (7.14%) CCIE
3 1 (7.14%) CCIE Security
3 1 (7.14%) CCSE
3 1 (7.14%) CCSM
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) GIAC
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) GRC
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (7.14%) NIST 800
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) F5
2 2 (14.29%) Proofpoint
3 1 (7.14%) Ariba
3 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Imperva
3 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.14%) Qualys
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Zscaler