SIEM Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North West

SIEM Engineer
England > North West

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in the North West is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 114 139
Rank change year-on-year -32 +25 -
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.040% 0.047% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.050% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% +23.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,255 1,981 2,439
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.83% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,467 1,114 1,681
10th Percentile £213 £259 £300
25th Percentile £358 £383 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £664 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 121 165
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.49 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.44 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.99 £27.13 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% -22.50% +62.79%
75th Percentile £56.44 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £64.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SIEM Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

SIEM Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SIEM Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SIEM Engineer job vacancies in the North West

SIEM Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Manchester -6 1 £500 -4.76% 2
SIEM Engineer
England

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, SIEM Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) logstash