SIEM Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for SIEM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SIEM over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 72 140
Rank change year-on-year +28 +68 -23
Contract jobs citing SIEM 76 57 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.79% 2.58% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 2.94% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 47 29
10th Percentile £491 £450 £410
25th Percentile £525 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.57% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £850 £738 £1,100
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

SIEM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,649 1,938 3,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.24% 87.65% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,313 2,350
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £586
90th Percentile £734 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

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 9 June 2024.

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 9 June 2024. 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
Herefordshire +4 43 £585 -10.00% 1
Birmingham +21 19 £525 +0.96% 5
Worcestershire +8 6 £550 +4.76%
Staffordshire +5 1 - - 3
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 2 (2.63%) Apache
2 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.58%) Azure
1 5 (6.58%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
2 1 (1.32%) AWS
2 1 (1.32%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (28.95%) Network Security
2 19 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 16 (21.05%) Firewall
4 6 (7.89%) TCP/IP
5 5 (6.58%) DHCP
5 5 (6.58%) DNS
6 1 (1.32%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.32%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.32%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.32%) Wireless
6 1 (1.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.68%) Big Data
2 15 (19.74%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.32%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 29 (38.16%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (18.42%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.16%) Legal
3 10 (13.16%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.95%) Finance
4 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.63%) Military
6 1 (1.32%) Banking
6 1 (1.32%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 25 (32.89%) Analyst
2 17 (22.37%) SOC Analyst
3 13 (17.11%) SIEM Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 8 (10.53%) Security Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Security Analyst
7 3 (3.95%) Elasticsearch Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Lead
8 2 (2.63%) Security Manager
8 2 (2.63%) Systems Engineer
9 1 (1.32%) Junior
9 1 (1.32%) Network Engineer
9 1 (1.32%) Network Security Engineer
9 1 (1.32%) Programme Manager
9 1 (1.32%) Security Incident Manager
9 1 (1.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.68%) Apache NiFi
2 14 (18.42%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.32%) Kafka
3 1 (1.32%) OLE
3 1 (1.32%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 36 (47.37%) Cyber Defence
2 23 (30.26%) Management Information System
3 22 (28.95%) Distributed Applications
4 12 (15.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 12 (15.79%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (11.84%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (10.53%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.32%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.32%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 45 (59.21%) Linux
2 34 (44.74%) Windows
3 21 (27.63%) Unix
4 16 (21.05%) Android
4 16 (21.05%) Apple iOS
5 10 (13.16%) Mac OS X
5 10 (13.16%) Ubuntu
6 5 (6.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (6.58%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (68.42%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (36.84%) Data Pipeline
3 27 (35.53%) Information Security
4 25 (32.89%) Security Operations
5 20 (26.32%) Security Architecture
6 19 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
6 19 (25.00%) Data Management
6 19 (25.00%) Incident Management
7 18 (23.68%) Data Engineering
7 18 (23.68%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 17 (22.37%) Analytics
9 16 (21.05%) Kalman Filter
10 15 (19.74%) Data Analysis
11 14 (18.42%) Visualisation
12 12 (15.79%) Incident Response
12 12 (15.79%) Infrastructure Monitoring
12 12 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
13 11 (14.47%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 11 (14.47%) Malware Reverse Engineering
13 11 (14.47%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.53%) R
2 5 (6.58%) C#
2 5 (6.58%) Java
3 2 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 63 (82.89%) Security Cleared
2 39 (51.32%) DV Cleared
3 25 (32.89%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.58%) CISSP
5 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.26%) Degree
6 3 (3.95%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.63%) CEH
7 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.32%) BC Cleared
8 1 (1.32%) CCIE
8 1 (1.32%) CCNA
8 1 (1.32%) CCNP
8 1 (1.32%) CCSA
8 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.32%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.32%) GCED
8 1 (1.32%) GIAC
8 1 (1.32%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (31.58%) NIST
2 18 (23.68%) Actionable Recommendations
3 11 (14.47%) GDPR
3 11 (14.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (13.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (13.16%) HIPAA
5 7 (9.21%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.32%) GPG13
6 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 9 (11.84%) Active Directory
1 9 (11.84%) iptables
2 5 (6.58%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (6.58%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.32%) Snort
Systems Management
1 15 (19.74%) Kibana
2 14 (18.42%) logstash
3 5 (6.58%) SCCM
3 5 (6.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Red Hat
2 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.58%) Veeam
3 5 (6.58%) VMware
4 2 (2.63%) F5
4 2 (2.63%) LogRhythm
4 2 (2.63%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.63%) Splunk
5 1 (1.32%) AlgoSec
5 1 (1.32%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.32%) Cisco
5 1 (1.32%) Citrix
5 1 (1.32%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.32%) Google
5 1 (1.32%) Qualys
5 1 (1.32%) TippingPoint
5 1 (1.32%) Trend Micro