SIEM Contracts in the Midlands

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 48 109
Rank change year-on-year -20 +61 +61
Contract jobs citing SIEM 43 90 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.25% 3.26% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 3.97% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 66 44
10th Percentile £321 £456 £438
25th Percentile £525 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% - -
75th Percentile £600 £675 £677
90th Percentile £753 £800 £700
England median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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

SIEM
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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the Midlands

SIEM
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 1 May 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
West Midlands -20 43 £551 -8.17% 24
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 3 (6.98%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.63%) Azure
2 2 (4.65%) AWS
2 2 (4.65%) GCP
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (27.91%) Firewall
2 6 (13.95%) Network Security
3 4 (9.30%) BGP
3 4 (9.30%) IPsec
3 4 (9.30%) OSPF
3 4 (9.30%) SSL
3 4 (9.30%) TCP/IP
3 4 (9.30%) VLAN
3 4 (9.30%) VPN
4 2 (4.65%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (4.65%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.33%) DKIM
5 1 (2.33%) DSL
5 1 (2.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Git
1 3 (6.98%) GitLab
1 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
1 3 (6.98%) JIRA
1 3 (6.98%) JMeter
1 3 (6.98%) Postman
1 3 (6.98%) REST Assured
1 3 (6.98%) Selenium
1 3 (6.98%) TestNG
1 3 (6.98%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.28%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (11.63%) Architect
1 5 (11.63%) Security Architect
2 4 (9.30%) Analyst
2 4 (9.30%) Check Point Expert
2 4 (9.30%) Security Engineer
2 4 (9.30%) Site Engineer
2 4 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (6.98%) Senior
3 3 (6.98%) Senior Architect
3 3 (6.98%) Senior Security Architect
4 2 (4.65%) Consultant
4 2 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Incident Analyst
4 2 (4.65%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (4.65%) QA Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Security Analyst
4 2 (4.65%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (4.65%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Service Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) CSOC
2 5 (11.63%) Management Information System
3 4 (9.30%) Operational Technology
3 4 (9.30%) Security Posture
4 3 (6.98%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.65%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (4.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (4.65%) SCADA
5 2 (4.65%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.23%) Windows
2 9 (20.93%) Linux
3 8 (18.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (18.60%) VMS
4 4 (9.30%) Check Point GAiA
5 2 (4.65%) Unix
6 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (25.58%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (20.93%) Incident Response
4 8 (18.60%) Agile
4 8 (18.60%) Event Correlation
5 7 (16.28%) Computer Science
5 7 (16.28%) Data Loss Prevention
5 7 (16.28%) Risk Management
5 7 (16.28%) Security Operations
6 6 (13.95%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (11.63%) Non-Functional Testing
7 5 (11.63%) Performance Testing
7 5 (11.63%) Regression Testing
7 5 (11.63%) Security Testing
7 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
8 4 (9.30%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (9.30%) DevSecOps
8 4 (9.30%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.93%) Python
2 7 (16.28%) Bash
3 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.65%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) SC Cleared
1 13 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.58%) CISSP
3 9 (20.93%) Degree
4 6 (13.95%) CEH
4 6 (13.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (11.63%) CISM
6 4 (9.30%) CCSE
6 4 (9.30%) CISA
7 3 (6.98%) ISTQB
7 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (6.98%) SANS
8 2 (4.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (4.65%) CCSP
8 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (4.65%) GIAC
8 2 (4.65%) ISACA
8 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
9 1 (2.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) NIST
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.33%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) FortiGate
1 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.63%) Ansible
3 4 (9.30%) Kibana
3 4 (9.30%) Terraform
4 2 (4.65%) CASB
5 1 (2.33%) logstash
5 1 (2.33%) Nessus
5 1 (2.33%) QRadar
5 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Fortinet
2 11 (25.58%) SolarWinds
3 10 (23.26%) Cisco
3 10 (23.26%) Splunk
4 8 (18.60%) F5
4 8 (18.60%) Palo Alto
4 8 (18.60%) Red Hat
4 8 (18.60%) ServiceNow
5 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
6 4 (9.30%) CheckPoint
7 3 (6.98%) Tenable
8 2 (4.65%) ArcSight
8 2 (4.65%) Oracle
8 2 (4.65%) Proofpoint
8 2 (4.65%) TOWER Software
9 1 (2.33%) BT
9 1 (2.33%) IBM
9 1 (2.33%) VMware