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 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 52 55
Rank change year-on-year +16 +3 +29
Contract jobs citing SIEM 24 10 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.14% 1.41% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 1.74% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 15
10th Percentile £315 - £475
25th Percentile - £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% -4.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £594 £700 £664
90th Percentile £600 £720 £718
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -13.50% - +9.09%

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 510 576 723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.93% 81.47% 83.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 387 477
10th Percentile £182 £200 £263
25th Percentile £363 £384 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £623
90th Percentile £639 £750 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 15 30
10th Percentile - £14.60 £13.58
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.88 £16.19
Median hourly rate £18.87 £43.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.12% +56.36% +57.14%
75th Percentile £22.08 £55.13 £64.06
90th Percentile £26.89 £56.85 £72.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £21.59 £27.50
% change year-on-year +12.74% -21.49% +62.60%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SIEM

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in Birmingham

SIEM
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 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) AWS
1 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) Network Security
1 8 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 7 (29.17%) Firewall
3 6 (25.00%) BGP
3 6 (25.00%) IPsec
3 6 (25.00%) OSPF
3 6 (25.00%) SSL
3 6 (25.00%) VLAN
3 6 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (4.17%) DSL
4 1 (4.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
1 2 (8.33%) JMeter
1 2 (8.33%) Postman
1 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
1 2 (8.33%) Selenium
1 2 (8.33%) TestNG
1 2 (8.33%) Travis CI
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 12 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Check Point Expert
1 6 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Analyst
2 3 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Lead
3 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Tester
4 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Incident Responder
4 1 (4.17%) Information Security Advisor
4 1 (4.17%) Python Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Security Advisor
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) SIEM Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.17%) Cyberattack
2 1 (4.17%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Check Point GAiA
2 3 (12.50%) Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Mac OS X
3 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (29.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 6 (25.00%) High Availability
4 5 (20.83%) Computer Science
4 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.50%) Ethical Hacking
6 3 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (12.50%) Use Case
7 2 (8.33%) Agile
7 2 (8.33%) API Testing
7 2 (8.33%) Performance Testing
7 2 (8.33%) Regression Testing
7 2 (8.33%) Security Testing
7 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Test Scripting
7 2 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) CCSE
2 5 (20.83%) Degree
3 4 (16.67%) CISSP
3 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (12.50%) CEH
4 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 2 (8.33%) ISTQB
6 1 (4.17%) CISA
6 1 (4.17%) CISM
6 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.17%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) QRadar
3 3 (12.50%) Ansible
3 3 (12.50%) Kibana
3 3 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (4.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 6 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) BT
4 1 (4.17%) Google