SIEM Contracts in Birmingham

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for SIEM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SIEM over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 69 83
Rank change year-on-year +21 +14 -33
Contract jobs citing SIEM 20 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.61% 0.66% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 0.75% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 9
10th Percentile £395 - £533
25th Percentile £406 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% -14.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £675 £619 £750
90th Percentile £730 £630 £800
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

SIEM 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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 640 798 1,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.55% 88.27% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 537 880
10th Percentile £248 £263 £219
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £512 £488
% change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 23
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £27.25 £15.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +81.67% -14.19% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for SIEM in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in Birmingham

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (50.00%) Legal
2 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Analyst
1 14 (70.00%) SOC Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Junior
4 1 (5.00%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Regular Expression
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (10.00%) Taxonomies
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Linux
2 10 (50.00%) Mac OS X
3 1 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 12 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 11 (55.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 10 (50.00%) Computer Forensics
4 10 (50.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
4 10 (50.00%) Purple Team
4 10 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 10 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 10 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 10 (50.00%) Threat Analysis
5 5 (25.00%) Line Management
5 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
7 2 (10.00%) Contingency Planning
7 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (10.00%) Offensive Security
7 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 17 (85.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) BC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) CASP
3 2 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (10.00%) GCED
3 2 (10.00%) GIAC
3 2 (10.00%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (65.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (65.00%) NIST
2 10 (50.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 10 (50.00%) GDPR
2 10 (50.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Citrix
1 2 (10.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (10.00%) Rapid7
1 2 (10.00%) Sophos
1 2 (10.00%) TippingPoint
1 2 (10.00%) Trend Micro
2 1 (5.00%) F5
2 1 (5.00%) Qualys
2 1 (5.00%) Splunk