SIEM Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 100 102 68
Rank change year-on-year +2 -34 +91
Contract jobs citing SIEM 25 20 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.14% 0.84% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.99% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 58
10th Percentile £367 £448 £406
25th Percentile £440 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -10.57%
75th Percentile £763 £606 £622
90th Percentile £775 £698 £785
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,934 2,021 2,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.07% 84.42% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,236 1,852
10th Percentile £278 £301 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £593
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 184 169
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.90 £33.61 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.97% +1.83% +43.48%
75th Percentile £57.57 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.38 £70.90 £63.15
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in the North West

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the North West over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the North West

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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 within the North West 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
Manchester +10 14 £725 +38.10% 21
Cheshire -20 6 £475 -15.56% 3
Merseyside - 3 £430 - 2
Lancashire - 2 - - 14
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England

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (24.00%) Azure
1 6 (24.00%) SaaS
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) Firewall
1 8 (32.00%) Network Security
2 5 (20.00%) Internet
2 5 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) MPLS
3 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.00%) tcpdump
3 1 (4.00%) WAN
3 1 (4.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Military
4 1 (4.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Security Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Lead
4 4 (16.00%) Security Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Analyst
5 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Security Manager
5 3 (12.00%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Network Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Security Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Security Specialist
6 2 (8.00%) Security Support Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Service Security Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Service Transition Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Streamlit
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) LDAP
2 1 (4.00%) OAuth
2 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.00%) OpenID
2 1 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (16.00%) CSOC
3 4 (16.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (4.00%) CMDB
5 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.00%) MISP
5 1 (4.00%) PKI
5 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (52.00%) Incident Response
3 11 (44.00%) Security Operations
4 5 (20.00%) SOAR
4 5 (20.00%) Use Case
5 4 (16.00%) Analytics
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) Information Security
5 4 (16.00%) Migration
5 4 (16.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
5 4 (16.00%) Threat Detection
6 3 (12.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 3 (12.00%) Data Loss Prevention
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (12.00%) RBAC
6 3 (12.00%) Risk Register
6 3 (12.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 3 (12.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 3 (12.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (4.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) CCNP
2 5 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
4 2 (8.00%) CISM
4 2 (8.00%) CISSP
4 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.00%) GCIA
4 2 (8.00%) GCIH
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (4.00%) CRISC
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) NIST
2 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.00%) NCSC
4 1 (4.00%) GDPR
4 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Nessus
1 1 (4.00%) OpenVAS
1 1 (4.00%) QRadar
1 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Cisco
2 5 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 5 (20.00%) Splunk
2 5 (20.00%) Zscaler
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.00%) LogRhythm
4 2 (8.00%) Thycotic
5 1 (4.00%) ArcSight
5 1 (4.00%) Carbon Black
5 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (4.00%) Darktrace
5 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.00%) IBM
5 1 (4.00%) Meraki
5 1 (4.00%) Qualys
5 1 (4.00%) Rapid7
5 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.00%) Varonis