SIEM Contracts in Birmingham

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring SIEM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SIEM over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 46 69
Rank change year-on-year +16 +23 +14
Contract jobs citing SIEM 20 21 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.83% 2.72% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 3.26% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 3
10th Percentile £356 £397 -
25th Percentile £375 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% 0.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £619
90th Percentile £660 £725 £630
West Midlands median daily rate £551 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.17% - +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

SIEM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

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

SIEM
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

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Network Security
2 5 (25.00%) Firewall
3 4 (20.00%) BGP
3 4 (20.00%) IPsec
3 4 (20.00%) OSPF
3 4 (20.00%) SSL
3 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (20.00%) VLAN
3 4 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (5.00%) DSL
4 1 (5.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) GitLab
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
1 2 (10.00%) JMeter
1 2 (10.00%) Postman
1 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (10.00%) Selenium
1 2 (10.00%) TestNG
1 2 (10.00%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Check Point Expert
1 4 (20.00%) Site Engineer
1 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Incident Responder
3 2 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) QA Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Security Incident Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Information Security Advisor
4 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Advisor
4 1 (5.00%) SIEM Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Check Point GAiA
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (30.00%) Incident Response
3 5 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) High Availability
4 4 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Task Automation
5 3 (15.00%) Use Case
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (10.00%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Bash
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (20.00%) CCSE
4 3 (15.00%) CEH
4 3 (15.00%) CISSP
5 2 (10.00%) ISTQB
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (5.00%) CISA
6 1 (5.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Ansible
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) FortiGate
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Kibana
4 1 (5.00%) logstash
4 1 (5.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (10.00%) ArcSight
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.00%) BT
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk