SIEM Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing SIEM 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.90% 0.93% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.01% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £340 -
25th Percentile - £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £473 £488 -
90th Percentile £516 £510 -
North East median daily rate £400 £425 -
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 300 199 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 90.36% 92.13% 85.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 104 106
10th Percentile £174 £302 £204
25th Percentile £363 £350 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £452 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% -4.84% -13.64%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £580
90th Percentile £583 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £450 £481 £450
% change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 3
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £15.65
25th Percentile £16.88 £14.97 £15.88
Median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.66% -8.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £54.38 £37.25 -
North East median hourly rate £28.91 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +52.16% +8.57% -22.22%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SIEM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

SIEM job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SIEM

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 15 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -9 3 £400 -5.88%
SIEM
North East

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) SABSA
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
1 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
1 1 (33.33%) Use Case
1 1 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISA
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Icinga
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft