Security Operations Contracts in the Midlands

Security Operations (SecOps)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Security Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 109 167
Rank change year-on-year +10 +58 -31
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 38 46 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.41% 1.40% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.58% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 28 33
10th Percentile £448 £410 £470
25th Percentile £534 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £634 £635 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.12% +10.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £725 £703 £700
90th Percentile £850 £766 £1,040
England median daily rate £600 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Security Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,205 2,903 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.06% 88.08% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,037 3,263
10th Percentile £235 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 103 148
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.10 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.76 £13.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.26 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -19.14% +26.98% +15.14%
75th Percentile £33.25 £37.66 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £57.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in the Midlands

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in the Midlands

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in the Midlands

Security Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Security Operations in the Midlands

Security Operations
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +21 36 £635 -2.31% 13
East Midlands +10 2 £521 -14.03% 9
Security Operations
England

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 5 (13.16%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.53%) Azure
1 4 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (2.63%) AWS
2 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 16 (42.11%) Network Security
2 13 (34.21%) Intrusion Detection
3 11 (28.95%) Firewall
4 1 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (34.21%) Big Data
2 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
General
1 18 (47.37%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.89%) Games
4 1 (2.63%) Legal
4 1 (2.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) Analyst
2 19 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Lead
3 4 (10.53%) Security Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Security Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Security Operations Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Team Leader
6 1 (2.63%) Architect
6 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence Analyst
6 1 (2.63%) Lead Architect
6 1 (2.63%) Lead Security Architect
6 1 (2.63%) Security Architect
6 1 (2.63%) Senior
6 1 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (2.63%) SOC Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (55.26%) Security Operations Centre
2 18 (47.37%) Cyber Defence
3 14 (36.84%) Distributed Applications
4 13 (34.21%) Management Information System
5 5 (13.16%) Cyberattack
6 3 (7.89%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (47.37%) Linux
1 18 (47.37%) Windows
2 11 (28.95%) Android
2 11 (28.95%) Apple iOS
2 11 (28.95%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (57.89%) SIEM
3 16 (42.11%) Information Security
4 14 (36.84%) Actionable Insight
5 13 (34.21%) Analytics
5 13 (34.21%) Data Engineering
5 13 (34.21%) Data Management
5 13 (34.21%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (34.21%) Security Architecture
6 11 (28.95%) Data Analysis
6 11 (28.95%) Kalman Filter
7 10 (26.32%) Incident Response
8 7 (18.42%) Threat Detection
9 6 (15.79%) Threat Intelligence
10 5 (13.16%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
11 4 (10.53%) Data Analytics
11 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (7.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 2 (5.26%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 35 (92.11%) Security Cleared
2 15 (39.47%) DV Cleared
3 14 (36.84%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.53%) CISSP
4 4 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (10.53%) Degree
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.26%) CEH
5 2 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (34.21%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Kibana
1 2 (5.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Red Hat
2 5 (13.16%) Darktrace
2 5 (13.16%) FireEye
2 5 (13.16%) LogRhythm
2 5 (13.16%) Splunk
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.26%) Sage