SIEM Contracts in the North of England

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 95 197
Rank change year-on-year -58 +102 -45
Contract jobs citing SIEM 31 133 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.66% 2.33% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 2.57% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 92 32
10th Percentile £453 £418 £400
25th Percentile £578 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -6.20% +14.29%
75th Percentile £850 £638 £662
90th Percentile - £700 £757
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,023 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.72% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for SIEM in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Yorkshire -7 21 £800 +39.13% 14
North West -39 10 £625 +13.64% 13
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England

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (9.68%) Azure
2 2 (6.45%) AWS
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.23%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
General
1 20 (64.52%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Lead
2 4 (12.90%) Security Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Consultant
3 3 (9.68%) SIEM Consultant
4 2 (6.45%) SIEM Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Information Security Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Lead Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Lead Security Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Security Advisor
5 1 (3.23%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (3.23%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Ajax
1 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.23%) CSS
1 1 (3.23%) HTML
1 1 (3.23%) JSON
1 1 (3.23%) Kafka
1 1 (3.23%) SOAP
1 1 (3.23%) Web Services
1 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (64.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 19 (61.29%) Cyber Defence
2 19 (61.29%) Cyber Threat
3 18 (58.06%) Management Information System
4 3 (9.68%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.23%) CMDB
5 1 (3.23%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.23%) Insider Threat
5 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (83.87%) Incident Response
2 25 (80.65%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (64.52%) Incident Management
3 20 (64.52%) Mentoring
4 19 (61.29%) Information Security
5 18 (58.06%) Protective Monitoring
5 18 (58.06%) Threat Intelligence
6 15 (48.39%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 15 (48.39%) Use Case
7 14 (45.16%) Case Management
7 14 (45.16%) CRM
7 14 (45.16%) Root Cause Analysis
7 14 (45.16%) SOAR
8 13 (41.94%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 7 (22.58%) Vulnerability Management
10 5 (16.13%) Security Operations
11 3 (9.68%) OWASP
11 3 (9.68%) Threat Detection
11 3 (9.68%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 2 (6.45%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.23%) Bash
2 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (61.29%) Security Cleared
2 18 (58.06%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) CISSP
3 2 (6.45%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.23%) CISM
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (67.74%) NIST
2 14 (45.16%) NIST 800
3 9 (29.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (9.68%) PCI DSS
5 2 (6.45%) GRC
5 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (3.23%) GDPR
6 1 (3.23%) HIPAA
6 1 (3.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (70.97%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Qualys
2 2 (6.45%) Rapid7
2 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.45%) Sophos
2 2 (6.45%) Zscaler
3 1 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (3.23%) F5
3 1 (3.23%) Proofpoint
3 1 (3.23%) Splunk
3 1 (3.23%) Symantec