SIEM Contracts in West Yorkshire

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 62 54
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 +62
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SIEM 8 7 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.07% 0.81% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.95% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 26
10th Percentile £503 £553 -
25th Percentile £508 £613 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £530
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +22.64% +57.04%
75th Percentile £566 £710 £716
90th Percentile £584 £719 £800
Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £700 £590
% change year-on-year -23.21% +18.64% +32.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 667 735 1,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.81% 84.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 469 835
10th Percentile £285 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £625
90th Percentile £649 £657 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 27 20
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £13.17
Median hourly rate £23.57 £15.00 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year +57.13% -15.82% -10.90%
75th Percentile £81.25 £31.25 £21.31
90th Percentile - £38.75 £24.38
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +59.63% -30.65% +5.26%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in West Yorkshire

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SIEM

SIEM
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Leeds +4 6 £538 -14.00% 8
Halifax - 2 - -
SIEM
Yorkshire

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (25.00%) SSL
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) BGP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) IPsec
3 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
3 1 (12.50%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Security Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) IT Security Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security
1 5 (62.50%) Security Monitoring
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (25.00%) Application Security
4 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (25.00%) SOAR
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) SOC 2
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (12.50%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Kustomize
2 1 (12.50%) Nessus
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix
2 2 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) McAfee
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Qualys