Security Operations Centre Contracts in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 72 92
Rank change year-on-year +23 +20 -33
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 14 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.89% 0.45% 0.077%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.64% 1.29% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £700 £425 £475
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £635 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -0.39% +10.87% +4.55%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Security Operations Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 211 309 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 28.44% 34.64% 29.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 183 268
10th Percentile £261 £350 £263
25th Percentile £355 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £499
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.26% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £647 £600
90th Percentile £739 £700 £691
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £513 £498
% change year-on-year +2.44% +3.02% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 7
10th Percentile £18.88 £15.65 £12.40
25th Percentile £22.33 £20.22 £13.83
Median hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +61.76% -9.26%
75th Percentile £40.81 £30.00 £17.70
90th Percentile £54.80 £88.75 £18.42
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.65 £27.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -10.36% +66.67% -2.94%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Security Operations Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations Centre in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Operations Centre in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Security Operations Centre in Birmingham

Security Operations Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 5 (35.71%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
General
1 3 (21.43%) Games
2 1 (7.14%) Legal
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Analyst
1 14 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Security Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Team Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (35.71%) Incident Response
4 3 (21.43%) SIEM
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Forensics
5 1 (7.14%) Malware Reverse Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (7.14%) Purple Team
5 1 (7.14%) Reverse Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.14%) Threat Analysis
5 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Darktrace
1 5 (35.71%) FireEye
1 5 (35.71%) LogRhythm
1 5 (35.71%) Splunk
2 2 (14.29%) Sage