CSIRT Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring CSIRT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 104 -
Rank change year-on-year -25 - -
Contract jobs citing CSIRT 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.36% 0.060% -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.89% 0.54% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £420 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £488 £538 £650
% change year-on-year -9.30% -17.31% +18.18%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

CSIRT falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 424 186 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.93% 11.18% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 124 174
10th Percentile £290 £200 £259
25th Percentile £419 £372 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +17.65% -11.91%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £538
90th Percentile £660 £685 £684
England median daily rate £513 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.32% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £43.30 - -
25th Percentile £54.25 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £12.18 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +515.76% -77.85% +221.45%
75th Percentile £77.38 £14.67 -
90th Percentile £77.45 £16.16 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £30.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +55.74% -33.95% +31.94%

CSIRT
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

CSIRT job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

CSIRT
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CSIRT

CSIRT
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSIRT within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Birmingham - 8 £483 -
CSIRT
England

CSIRT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Akamai
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
1 8 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Application Security
1 8 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 8 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) OWASP
2 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) Security Testing
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) F5
1 8 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft