SIEM Contracts in Manchester

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 90 82
Rank change year-on-year +18 -8 +39
Contract jobs citing SIEM 8 7 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.90% 0.49% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.57% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 24
10th Percentile £405 £442 £405
25th Percentile - £467 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £619 £485
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +27.58% -22.40%
75th Percentile £669 £756 £647
90th Percentile £710 £768 £719
North West median daily rate £525 £596 £550
% change year-on-year -11.91% +8.36% -12.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 794 1,233 1,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.21% 86.89% 90.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 843 1,202
10th Percentile £300 £325 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - -
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £675 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 75 50
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.44 £16.53
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -25.71% +93.21%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.35 £73.70 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £24.19 £35.03
% change year-on-year +32.29% -30.94% +52.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (12.50%) tcpdump
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Responder
2 2 (25.00%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Security Incident Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Security Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
1 1 (12.50%) OpenID
1 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) MISP
3 1 (12.50%) PKI
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (25.00%) Data Management
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) Information Security
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) OWASP
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) CISM
3 1 (12.50%) CISSP
3 1 (12.50%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 1 (12.50%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Nessus
1 1 (12.50%) OpenVAS
1 1 (12.50%) QRadar
1 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Thycotic
2 1 (12.50%) ArcSight
2 1 (12.50%) Carbon Black
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) LogRhythm
2 1 (12.50%) Meraki
2 1 (12.50%) Qualys
2 1 (12.50%) Rapid7
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk