SIEM Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

SIEM Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 131 161
Rank change year-on-year +32 +30 -36
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 13 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.68% 0.13% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.14% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £527 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £800 £603 £313
% change year-on-year +32.78% +92.80% -40.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,751 2,197 3,392
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 94.90% 96.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,505 2,468
10th Percentile £259 £250 £230
25th Percentile £363 £388 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +15.85%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £711 £697 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 63 77
10th Percentile £12.04 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.75 £14.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £41.13 £27.57 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.75 £56.75 £22.25
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured SIEM Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in the West Midlands

SIEM Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM Engineer in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SIEM Engineer in the West Midlands

SIEM Engineer
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 SIEM Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
Herefordshire - 13 £550 -
SIEM Engineer
England

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, SIEM Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) SIEM
1 13 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (92.31%) logstash
2 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 12 (92.31%) Kibana
2 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 12 (92.31%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (92.31%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (76.92%) Ubuntu
3 10 (76.92%) Windows
4 9 (69.23%) Visualisation
4 9 (69.23%) Active Directory
4 9 (69.23%) iptables
4 9 (69.23%) RBAC
5 8 (61.54%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (61.54%) DataOps
5 8 (61.54%) R
6 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
7 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
7 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
8 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
10 1 (7.69%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (7.69%) Project Management
10 1 (7.69%) Finance
10 1 (7.69%) Military
10 1 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
10 1 (7.69%) DevOps
10 1 (7.69%) Police
10 1 (7.69%) Fire and Rescue

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (7.69%) Military
2 1 (7.69%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 10 (76.92%) Ubuntu
2 10 (76.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) SIEM
2 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 9 (69.23%) RBAC
3 9 (69.23%) Visualisation
4 8 (61.54%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (61.54%) DataOps
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (7.69%) DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 1 (7.69%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Active Directory
1 9 (69.23%) iptables
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Kibana
1 12 (92.31%) logstash