SIEM Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

SIEM Engineer
North West > Cheshire

As of 30 July 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median SIEM Engineer daily rate in Cheshire.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - - £525
% change year-on-year - - -7.08%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 704 537 451
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.26% 90.10% 94.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 403 305
10th Percentile £300 £268 £297
25th Percentile £408 £358 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £437 £463
Median % change year-on-year +12.59% -5.51% -7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £520 £575
90th Percentile £649 £638 £638
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 26 27
10th Percentile £15.83 £12.82 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.25 £25.49 £14.00
Median hourly rate £32.23 £31.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% +77.74% -41.98%
75th Percentile £83.75 £39.30 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £50.00 £45.25
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £26.14 £32.90
% change year-on-year +91.30% -20.54% +14.02%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

SIEM Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

SIEM Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 30 July 2026. 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
Knutsford - 1 - - 3
SIEM Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 30 July 2026, 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 Cheshire region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) CASB
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) CASB
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk