SOAR Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SOAR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 125 142
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 -
Contract jobs citing SOAR 17 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.60% 0.38% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.45% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 1
10th Percentile £363 £656 -
25th Percentile £414 £761 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £773 £475
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +62.63% -
75th Percentile £573 £792 £513
90th Percentile £638 £795 -
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

SOAR 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 2,540 2,224 2,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 89.41% 83.48% 84.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 1,402 1,678
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £368 £373 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.15% -1.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £661 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 67 108
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.68 £13.91
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £21.30 £23.60 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -13.39% +55.45%
75th Percentile £26.51 £37.34 £51.50
90th Percentile £40.46 £53.50 £67.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOAR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

SOAR job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SOAR
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SOAR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SOAR

SOAR
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAR in the Midlands over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 21 October 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 -14 15 £519 -32.82% 5
East Midlands - 2 £375 - 4
SOAR
England

SOAR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) Internet
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Security Engineer
1 3 (17.65%) SOC Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) CyberArk Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Operations Director
3 1 (5.88%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.88%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Operational Technology
1 4 (23.53%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (17.65%) PKI
2 3 (17.65%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) MISP
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) SIEM
2 9 (52.94%) Incident Response
3 8 (47.06%) Identity Access Management
3 8 (47.06%) Regulatory Compliance
4 7 (41.18%) Cloud Security
4 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (41.18%) Unit Testing
5 6 (35.29%) Task Automation
5 6 (35.29%) Threat Intelligence
6 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (29.41%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (29.41%) Security Operations
6 5 (29.41%) Threat Detection
6 5 (29.41%) Use Case
7 4 (23.53%) Vulnerability Management
8 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
8 3 (17.65%) Kalman Filter
8 3 (17.65%) Performance Metrics
8 3 (17.65%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) CISSP
4 1 (5.88%) BC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) CEH
4 1 (5.88%) CISM
4 1 (5.88%) CRISC
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Snort
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) QRadar
2 1 (5.88%) Fluentd
2 1 (5.88%) Kibana
2 1 (5.88%) logstash
2 1 (5.88%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) BeyondTrust
1 7 (41.18%) CyberArk
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) Google
3 3 (17.65%) Splunk
4 2 (11.76%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (11.76%) Qualys
4 2 (11.76%) Tenable
5 1 (5.88%) Cribl.io
5 1 (5.88%) Darktrace