SIEM Contracts in Cheshire

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 45 23
Rank change year-on-year -19 -22 +36
Contract jobs citing SIEM 5 9 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.83% 1.83% 6.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 2.09% 7.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 16
10th Percentile £455 £533 £510
25th Percentile £463 £544 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £591
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -4.74% -6.27%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £611
90th Percentile £695 £638 £636
North West median daily rate £631 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +14.77% - -12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 556 430 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 92.05% 87.22% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 289 252
10th Percentile £312 £311 £288
25th Percentile £358 £390 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £521 £575 £585
90th Percentile £646 £638 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 23 34
10th Percentile - £11.60 £15.64
25th Percentile £12.82 £16.52 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £46.75 £38.73
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £30.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.77% +28.86%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in Cheshire

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for SIEM in Cheshire

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in Cheshire

SIEM
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 within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 July 2025. 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
Warrington - 1 - -
SIEM
North West

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Internet
2 4 (80.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Lead
3 2 (40.00%) Lead Network Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Network Design
2 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) SOAR
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CCNP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
1 4 (80.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (20.00%) LogRhythm
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft