SIEM Contracts in Leeds

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

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

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 63 56
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +55
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SIEM 6 3 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.02% 0.40% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.48% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 23
10th Percentile £503 £533 -
25th Percentile £508 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £566 £644 £744
90th Percentile £584 £648 £800
West Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £650 £530
% change year-on-year -17.31% +22.64% +57.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 529 630 1,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.66% 84.34% 91.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 414 704
10th Percentile £304 £350 £351
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £638
90th Percentile £628 £655 £718
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -1.60% -7.11% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 25 13
10th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £13.87 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.09% -27.00% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £28.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £38.75 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.50 £15.00 £17.82
% change year-on-year +70.00% -15.82% -10.90%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in Leeds

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SIEM

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (33.33%) AWS KMS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (33.33%) SSL
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
3 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
3 1 (16.67%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
2 3 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (33.33%) Application Security
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) SOAR
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
4 1 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) DDoS Mitigation
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Register
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) CISM
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
1 2 (33.33%) SOC 2
2 1 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (16.67%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Kustomize
1 1 (16.67%) Nessus
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Citrix
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) McAfee
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk