Security Operations Centre Contracts in the North West

Security Operations Centre
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 132 125
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 +46
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 7 3 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.34% 0.11% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.15% 0.42% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 18
10th Percentile £150 £553 £400
25th Percentile £394 £559 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £600 £606
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -0.99% -16.41%
75th Percentile £775 £644 £628
90th Percentile - £648 £658
England median daily rate £575 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.04% -1.21%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 607 710 954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 29.25% 25.53% 31.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 443 627
10th Percentile £268 £297 £288
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +3.36%
75th Percentile £562 £585 £611
90th Percentile £650 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 74 37
10th Percentile £22.65 £13.00 £16.76
25th Percentile £26.88 £15.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% -6.14% +47.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £53.35
90th Percentile £79.65 £57.50 £68.20
England median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -12.61% +59.57% -11.32%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in the North West

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in the North West

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations Centre in the North West over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations Centre in the North West

Security Operations Centre
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Manchester +22 6 £750 +25.00% 29
Merseyside - 1 £225 - 1
Security Operations Centre
England

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (57.14%) SaaS
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Security Architect
2 3 (42.86%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) CSOC
2 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 6 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (71.43%) SIEM
4 4 (57.14%) SOAR
5 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
6 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 2 (28.57%) Digital Forensics
6 2 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 2 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
6 2 (28.57%) Use Case
7 1 (14.29%) Fintech
7 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
7 1 (14.29%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Splunk
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Darktrace
3 1 (14.29%) Varonis