SIEM Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

SIEM Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 96 119
Rank change year-on-year -13 +23 +60
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 7 14 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.40% 0.74% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.80% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 1
10th Percentile £468 £513 -
25th Percentile £494 £527 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -18.52% -
75th Percentile £619 - £688
90th Percentile £631 - -
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.20% +4.32%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,571 1,755 2,028
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.98% 92.17% 94.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,012 1,165 1,390
10th Percentile £235 £241 £250
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £581 £613 £600
90th Percentile £648 £713 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 74 61
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.82 £14.36
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.93 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.59 £22.10
Median % change year-on-year +28.38% -11.36% +22.78%
75th Percentile £39.39 £32.27 £31.04
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £44.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -42.84% +0.32% +68.69%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured SIEM Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in the West Midlands

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM Engineer in the West Midlands

SIEM Engineer
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Herefordshire +2 2 £485 -11.82%
Worcestershire - 2 £600 -
Birmingham - 2 £625 - 1
SIEM Engineer
England

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, SIEM Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) SIEM
2 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) Python
4 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
4 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (57.14%) Azure
4 4 (57.14%) Bash
4 4 (57.14%) Splunk
4 4 (57.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 4 (57.14%) logstash
4 4 (57.14%) Anomaly Detection
4 4 (57.14%) Kibana
5 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (42.86%) Case Management
5 3 (42.86%) Linux
5 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
6 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
6 2 (28.57%) SLA
6 2 (28.57%) IBM
6 2 (28.57%) CISSP
6 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
6 2 (28.57%) Server Management
6 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (28.57%) Observability
6 2 (28.57%) QRadar

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DSL
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) MISP
2 1 (14.29%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (57.14%) Anomaly Detection
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (42.86%) Case Management
3 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
4 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
4 2 (28.57%) Server Management
4 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
5 1 (14.29%) Behavioural Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) CISSP
5 1 (14.29%) CEH
5 1 (14.29%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kibana
1 4 (57.14%) logstash
2 2 (28.57%) QRadar
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Fluentd
3 1 (14.29%) Rsyslog
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft