SIEM Contracts in the Midlands

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SIEM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SIEM over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 111 168
Rank change year-on-year +64 +57 -40
Contract jobs citing SIEM 87 55 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.19% 1.58% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 1.79% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 41 34
10th Percentile £430 £438 £415
25th Percentile £525 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.18%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £738
90th Percentile £750 £700 £1,014
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

SIEM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,238 3,065 4,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.07% 88.30% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,495 2,136 3,342
10th Percentile £233 £250 £233
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 122 155
10th Percentile £11.09 £11.82 £10.20
25th Percentile £13.96 £15.02 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.47 £22.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.88 £33.30
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in the Midlands

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +65 85 £600 - 7
East Midlands +10 2 £596 +6.43% 3
SIEM
England

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (1.15%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.49%) Azure
2 9 (10.34%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (2.30%) SaaS
4 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.15%) AWS
4 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.15%) GCP
4 1 (1.15%) IaaS
4 1 (1.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (27.59%) Firewall
2 21 (24.14%) Network Security
3 14 (16.09%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (8.05%) TCP/IP
5 5 (5.75%) DHCP
5 5 (5.75%) DNS
6 2 (2.30%) VPN
6 2 (2.30%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.15%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.15%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.24%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (14.94%) Big Data
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Fiddler
1 1 (1.15%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 29 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (19.54%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.49%) Legal
5 3 (3.45%) Finance
5 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.30%) Military
7 1 (1.15%) Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.15%) Law
7 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.15%) Police
Job Titles
1 26 (29.89%) Analyst
2 16 (18.39%) SOC Analyst
3 13 (14.94%) SIEM Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 8 (9.20%) Security Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) SOC Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Lead
9 4 (4.60%) Security Analyst
9 4 (4.60%) Splunk Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Elasticsearch Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Security Manager
11 2 (2.30%) Consultant
11 2 (2.30%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 2 (2.30%) Data Engineer
11 2 (2.30%) Systems Engineer
12 1 (1.15%) Automation Engineer
12 1 (1.15%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.09%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (14.94%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.30%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.15%) Kafka
4 1 (1.15%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 31 (35.63%) Cyber Defence
2 24 (27.59%) Management Information System
3 18 (20.69%) Distributed Applications
4 15 (17.24%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 14 (16.09%) Security Operations Centre
6 12 (13.79%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (11.49%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (10.34%) Security Posture
9 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
10 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 2 (2.30%) Taxonomies
11 1 (1.15%) Operational Technology
11 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
11 1 (1.15%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 41 (47.13%) Linux
2 30 (34.48%) Windows
3 16 (18.39%) Unix
4 11 (12.64%) Android
4 11 (12.64%) Apple iOS
5 10 (11.49%) Mac OS X
5 10 (11.49%) Ubuntu
6 5 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.75%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (70.11%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (29.89%) Security Operations
3 24 (27.59%) Information Security
4 23 (26.44%) Incident Response
5 22 (25.29%) Data Pipeline
5 22 (25.29%) Incident Management
6 21 (24.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 19 (21.84%) Analytics
8 18 (20.69%) Actionable Insight
9 17 (19.54%) Threat Intelligence
10 16 (18.39%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 15 (17.24%) Security Architecture
11 15 (17.24%) Vulnerability Management
12 14 (16.09%) Data Management
12 14 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (16.09%) Visualisation
13 13 (14.94%) Computer Science
13 13 (14.94%) Data Engineering
14 12 (13.79%) Infrastructure Monitoring
14 12 (13.79%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.20%) R
2 6 (6.90%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (5.75%) C#
3 5 (5.75%) Java
Qualifications
1 67 (77.01%) Security Cleared
2 38 (43.68%) SC Cleared
3 33 (37.93%) DV Cleared
4 14 (16.09%) Degree
5 13 (14.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (13.79%) CISSP
6 12 (13.79%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (6.90%) Azure Certification
7 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.45%) GIAC
9 2 (2.30%) BC Cleared
9 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.30%) CASP
9 2 (2.30%) CEH
9 2 (2.30%) GCED
9 2 (2.30%) GSEC
10 1 (1.15%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (32.18%) NIST
2 14 (16.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (14.94%) Actionable Recommendations
4 12 (13.79%) GDPR
5 10 (11.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 10 (11.49%) HIPAA
6 9 (10.34%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.15%) GPG13
7 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (11.49%) Active Directory
2 9 (10.34%) iptables
3 5 (5.75%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.75%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.15%) Snort
Systems Management
1 15 (17.24%) Kibana
2 14 (16.09%) logstash
3 5 (5.75%) SCCM
3 5 (5.75%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.64%) Red Hat
3 6 (6.90%) Splunk
4 5 (5.75%) Veeam
4 5 (5.75%) VMware
5 4 (4.60%) LogRhythm
6 3 (3.45%) TippingPoint
7 2 (2.30%) Citrix
7 2 (2.30%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.30%) Rapid7
7 2 (2.30%) Sophos
7 2 (2.30%) Trend Micro
8 1 (1.15%) F5
8 1 (1.15%) Google
8 1 (1.15%) Oracle
8 1 (1.15%) Qualys
8 1 (1.15%) Zscaler