Security Operations Centre Contract Job Trends 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 8 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 119 118
Rank change year-on-year -55 -1 +14
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 1 11 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.026% 0.50% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.081% 1.57% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 3
10th Percentile - £213 £553
25th Percentile - £525 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -0.99%
75th Percentile - £775 £644
90th Percentile - - £648
England median daily rate £540 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -2.04%

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 1,241 702 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.73% 32.08% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 759 463 391
10th Percentile £343 £298 £313
25th Percentile £413 £377 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £581 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 39 36
10th Percentile £16.50 £21.77 £12.13
25th Percentile £24.16 £26.88 £15.92
Median hourly rate £43.96 £35.50 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.83% +30.28% -23.24%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £91.85 £79.20 £80.94
England median hourly rate £43.56 £32.05 £47.50
% change year-on-year +35.91% -32.53% +15.74%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Operations Centre relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in the North West

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Security Operations Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Security Operations Centre

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 8 August 2026. 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
Cheshire - 1 £700 - 2
Security Operations Centre
England

Security Operations Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CSOC
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow