SOAR Contracts in the Midlands

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 159 194
Rank change year-on-year +33 +35 -38
Contract jobs citing SOAR 8 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.29% 0.059% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.066% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £525 £470 £325
25th Percentile £534 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.92% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £719 £638
90th Percentile £643 £760 -
England median daily rate £568 £587 £600
% change year-on-year -3.28% -2.21% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

SOAR 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 2,266 3,021 4,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.19% 88.41% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,516 2,106 3,283
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £567
90th Percentile £700 £680 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 118 150
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.94 £9.98
25th Percentile £13.60 £15.02 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.47 £22.08
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.13 £34.50
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the Midlands

SOAR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SOAR in the Midlands

SOAR
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 SOAR within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 - 7 £538 -
East Midlands +16 1 - -
SOAR
England

SOAR
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:

General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Analyst
1 7 (87.50%) Cyber Defence Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Cyber Defence
1 7 (87.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 7 (87.50%) Cyber Threat
1 7 (87.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Case Management
1 7 (87.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (87.50%) Incident Management
1 7 (87.50%) Incident Response
1 7 (87.50%) Information Security
1 7 (87.50%) Protective Monitoring
1 7 (87.50%) Root Cause Analysis
1 7 (87.50%) SIEM
1 7 (87.50%) Threat Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Use Case
2 6 (75.00%) CRM
2 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) NIST
1 7 (87.50%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk