SIEM Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 40 85
Rank change year-on-year -15 +45 +53
Contract jobs citing SIEM 44 79 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.19% 4.16% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 4.97% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 55 40
10th Percentile £321 £448 £434
25th Percentile £375 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £699 £691
90th Percentile £650 £840 £704
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,223 1,590 2,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.75% 83.77% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 796 1,057 1,387
10th Percentile £193 £275 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.59%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £654 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 114 47
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.71% +18.42% +12.93%
75th Percentile £24.10 £40.38 £28.13
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £50.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.67% +50.00%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in the West Midlands

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the West Midlands

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Contract 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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Birmingham +15 23 £525 -12.50% 10
Warwickshire +9 13 £551 -11.84% 3
Coventry - 6 £600 - 5
SIEM
England

SIEM
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.82%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.82%) Azure
2 2 (4.55%) AWS
2 2 (4.55%) GCP
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.27%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (27.27%) Firewall
2 8 (18.18%) Network Security
3 6 (13.64%) BGP
3 6 (13.64%) IPsec
3 6 (13.64%) OSPF
3 6 (13.64%) SSL
3 6 (13.64%) TCP/IP
3 6 (13.64%) VLAN
3 6 (13.64%) VPN
4 2 (4.55%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.27%) DKIM
5 1 (2.27%) DSL
5 1 (2.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Git
1 3 (6.82%) GitLab
1 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
1 3 (6.82%) JIRA
1 3 (6.82%) JMeter
1 3 (6.82%) Postman
1 3 (6.82%) REST Assured
1 3 (6.82%) Selenium
1 3 (6.82%) TestNG
1 3 (6.82%) Travis CI
General
1 19 (43.18%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (13.64%) Check Point Expert
1 6 (13.64%) Site Engineer
1 6 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Security Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Architect
4 3 (6.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Security Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Incident Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Incident Responder
5 2 (4.55%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Security Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Security Incident Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Security Operations Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Service Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) CSOC
2 5 (11.36%) Security Posture
3 4 (9.09%) Operational Technology
4 3 (6.82%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.82%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (4.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (4.55%) SCADA
5 2 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.27%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.27%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.00%) Windows
2 9 (20.45%) Linux
3 8 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (18.18%) VMS
4 6 (13.64%) Check Point GAiA
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (22.73%) Incident Response
4 8 (18.18%) Event Correlation
5 7 (15.91%) Computer Science
5 7 (15.91%) Security Operations
5 7 (15.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 7 (15.91%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (13.64%) High Availability
7 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (11.36%) Data Loss Prevention
7 5 (11.36%) Risk Management
8 4 (9.09%) Agile
8 4 (9.09%) CI/CD
8 4 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 4 (9.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 3 (6.82%) ITIL
9 3 (6.82%) Regression Testing
9 3 (6.82%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.45%) Python
2 7 (15.91%) Bash
3 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) SC Cleared
1 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.45%) CISSP
3 7 (15.91%) Degree
4 6 (13.64%) CCSE
4 6 (13.64%) CEH
4 6 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (11.36%) CISM
6 4 (9.09%) CISA
7 3 (6.82%) ISTQB
7 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (6.82%) SANS
8 2 (4.55%) GIAC
8 2 (4.55%) ISACA
9 1 (2.27%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) NIST
2 3 (6.82%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) NCSC
3 1 (2.27%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) FortiGate
2 6 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.36%) Ansible
4 4 (9.09%) Kibana
4 4 (9.09%) Terraform
5 1 (2.27%) logstash
5 1 (2.27%) Nessus
5 1 (2.27%) QRadar
5 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 14 (31.82%) Fortinet
2 11 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 10 (22.73%) Cisco
3 10 (22.73%) Splunk
4 8 (18.18%) F5
4 8 (18.18%) Palo Alto
4 8 (18.18%) Red Hat
4 8 (18.18%) ServiceNow
5 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
6 6 (13.64%) CheckPoint
7 3 (6.82%) Tenable
8 2 (4.55%) ArcSight
8 2 (4.55%) Proofpoint
9 1 (2.27%) BT
9 1 (2.27%) IBM
9 1 (2.27%) VMware