Security Monitoring Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Monitoring
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Security Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 94 101
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +70
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 7 14 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.42% 0.75% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.92% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 16
10th Percentile - £166 £325
25th Percentile £468 £200 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -6.67% -2.17%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £678
90th Percentile - - £781
England median daily rate £538 £529 £586
% change year-on-year +1.65% -9.69% +1.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Security Monitoring 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,460 1,525 1,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.32% 81.81% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,034 1,283
10th Percentile £223 £287 £263
25th Percentile £368 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £663 £738 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 61 38
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.25 £20.12
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -32.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £32.44 £37.50 £30.78
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £46.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in the West Midlands

Security Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Monitoring in the West Midlands

Security Monitoring
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 Security Monitoring within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Worcestershire -3 3 £575 +4.55% 1
Herefordshire - 2 £485 -
Coventry - 1 - -
Security Monitoring
England

Security Monitoring
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
1 3 (42.86%) Change Management
1 3 (42.86%) Coaching
1 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
1 3 (42.86%) Data Management
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) Programme Delivery
1 3 (42.86%) SIEM
1 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
1 3 (42.86%) Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) Anomaly Detection
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) Observability
2 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
2 2 (28.57%) Server Management
2 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Atlassian
3 2 (28.57%) Splunk
4 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (14.29%) Qualys