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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 53 78
Rank change year-on-year -46 +25 +101
Contract jobs citing SIEM 41 80 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.65% 3.02% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 3.73% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 48 57
10th Percentile £293 £500 £433
25th Percentile £375 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £725 £688
90th Percentile £580 £850 £743
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 2,178 2,145 2,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.75% 81.04% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 1,471 1,875
10th Percentile £219 £275 £256
25th Percentile £355 £363 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £600
90th Percentile £644 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 101 81
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.70 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.04 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% -32.73% +46.28%
75th Percentile £26.51 £37.50 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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 2 August 2025.

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 2 August 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 -39 39 £480 -20.00% 11
East Midlands -1 2 - - 16
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 (7.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) Azure
2 4 (9.76%) AWS
3 3 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.88%) GCP
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (41.46%) Firewall
2 10 (24.39%) Network Security
3 7 (17.07%) TCP/IP
4 6 (14.63%) BGP
4 6 (14.63%) IPsec
4 6 (14.63%) OSPF
4 6 (14.63%) SSL
4 6 (14.63%) VLAN
4 6 (14.63%) VPN
5 4 (9.76%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (4.88%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (2.44%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Git
1 3 (7.32%) GitLab
1 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
1 3 (7.32%) JIRA
1 3 (7.32%) JMeter
1 3 (7.32%) Postman
1 3 (7.32%) REST Assured
1 3 (7.32%) Selenium
1 3 (7.32%) TestNG
1 3 (7.32%) Travis CI
General
1 18 (43.90%) Social Skills
2 13 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Legal
5 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.44%) Military
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) Security Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Site Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Check Point Expert
4 4 (9.76%) Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Application Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Security Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Security Operations Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Service Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Service Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Tester
7 1 (2.44%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.44%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Security Posture
2 3 (7.32%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.88%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.88%) CSOC
3 2 (4.88%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.44%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (2.44%) SCADA
4 1 (2.44%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Check Point GAiA
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
1 6 (14.63%) Windows
2 4 (9.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.88%) VMS
3 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.44%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (29.27%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (29.27%) Incident Response
3 8 (19.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 8 (19.51%) Threat Intelligence
4 7 (17.07%) Computer Science
4 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 7 (17.07%) Security Operations
5 6 (14.63%) Agile
5 6 (14.63%) Data Ingestion
5 6 (14.63%) DevOps
5 6 (14.63%) High Availability
5 6 (14.63%) Task Automation
5 6 (14.63%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (12.20%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (12.20%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (12.20%) Threat Detection
6 5 (12.20%) Use Case
7 4 (9.76%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) Python
2 9 (21.95%) Bash
3 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.32%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (4.88%) VBScript
6 1 (2.44%) Korn
6 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.51%) CISSP
3 7 (17.07%) Degree
3 7 (17.07%) SC Cleared
4 6 (14.63%) CCSE
4 6 (14.63%) CEH
4 6 (14.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (12.20%) CISM
6 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared
7 3 (7.32%) CISA
7 3 (7.32%) ISTQB
8 2 (4.88%) GIAC
8 2 (4.88%) ISACA
8 2 (4.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) SLA
2 3 (7.32%) NIST
2 3 (7.32%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.44%) NCSC
3 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Snort
Systems Management
1 8 (19.51%) FortiGate
2 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.76%) Ansible
3 4 (9.76%) Kibana
3 4 (9.76%) Terraform
4 1 (2.44%) logstash
4 1 (2.44%) Nessus
4 1 (2.44%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Fortinet
1 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) CheckPoint
3 5 (12.20%) Splunk
4 4 (9.76%) Cisco
5 3 (7.32%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (7.32%) Tenable
6 2 (4.88%) ArcSight
6 2 (4.88%) F5
6 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.88%) Proofpoint
6 2 (4.88%) Qualys
6 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.88%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.88%) VMware
7 1 (2.44%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (2.44%) BT
7 1 (2.44%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.44%) IBM