CSOC Contracts in the West Midlands

Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CSOC in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CSOC over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 - 131
Rank change year-on-year - - +39
Contract jobs citing CSOC 8 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% - 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% - 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 8
10th Percentile £539 - £594
25th Percentile £546 - £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.74%
75th Percentile - - £763
90th Percentile £563 - £766
England median daily rate £551 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -15.23% +4.00% +8.70%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

CSOC 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 418 647 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.08% 33.23% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 410 525
10th Percentile £197 £307 £263
25th Percentile £406 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £632 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 47 19
10th Percentile £16.23 £10.42 £17.10
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.71 £17.99
Median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%
75th Percentile £31.49 £40.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.50
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

CSOC
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CSOC in the West Midlands

CSOC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CSOC in the West Midlands

CSOC
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 CSOC within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Warwickshire - 8 £551 -
CSOC
England

CSOC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 8 (100.00%) VMS
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 8 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) F5
1 8 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 8 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 8 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 8 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 8 (100.00%) Splunk