Security Operations Centre Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Security Operations Centre
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 64 83
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 +41
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.23% 0.26% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.64% 1.00% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £469 - £556
25th Percentile £481 £808 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £815 £663
Median % change year-on-year -37.88% +23.02% +15.22%
75th Percentile £526 £823 £734
90th Percentile £534 - £759
Yorkshire median daily rate £506 £815 £700
% change year-on-year -37.88% +16.43% +21.74%

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 314 201 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 35.76% 26.07% 27.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 133 221
10th Percentile £345 £167 £307
25th Percentile £425 £359 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £594
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £17.19 £15.32
25th Percentile - £21.75 £17.07
Median hourly rate £21.30 £27.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.55% +44.74% -10.06%
75th Percentile - £40.63 £21.64
90th Percentile - £48.00 £22.25
Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.03 £37.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year -54.59% +75.97% +12.16%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Security Operations Centre
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Leeds -16 2 £506 -37.88% 3
Security Operations Centre
Yorkshire

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

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Services Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Transition Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Transformation Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Transition Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk