SIEM Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

SIEM Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.69% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £445 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £603 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £567 £675
% change year-on-year +1.41% -16.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 646 647 693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.47% 94.59% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 443 470
10th Percentile £213 £191 £258
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £609 £588
90th Percentile £638 £730 £676
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 20
10th Percentile - £17.33 £14.05
25th Percentile £12.62 £23.78 £15.41
Median hourly rate £17.69 £30.45 £43.02
Median % change year-on-year -41.90% -29.22% +126.42%
75th Percentile £25.00 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £32.25 £56.45 £67.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £23.82 £22.20
% change year-on-year +4.95% +7.32% +25.25%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SIEM Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SIEM Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SIEM Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SIEM Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM Engineer in Birmingham

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, SIEM Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (60.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) Kibana
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) logstash
3 2 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (20.00%) Behavioural Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) CISSP
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) GIAC
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (60.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (20.00%) Behavioural Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) GIAC
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kibana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) logstash
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) QRadar
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk