SIEM Job Trends in Birmingham

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SIEM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 106 84
Rank change year-on-year +22 -22 +40
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 17 21 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.99% 1.11% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.21% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 14 16 13
10th Percentile £51,250 £41,250 £26,200
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,309 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.20% -5.97% -12.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £55,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £61,000 £72,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £51,814
% change year-on-year -3.51% +10.01% -18.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

SIEM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,377 1,742 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 80.01% 92.41% 89.92%
Number of salaries quoted 968 820 930
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,060 £44,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,875 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SIEM relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SIEM job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SIEM
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SIEM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SIEM

SIEM
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SIEM in Birmingham

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) DNS
1 5 (29.41%) Firewall
1 5 (29.41%) VPN
2 3 (17.65%) BGP
2 3 (17.65%) DHCP
2 3 (17.65%) IPsec
2 3 (17.65%) Network Security
2 3 (17.65%) OSPF
2 3 (17.65%) SD-WAN
2 3 (17.65%) VLAN
2 3 (17.65%) WAN
2 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (17.65%) Wireshark
3 2 (11.76%) HTTP
3 2 (11.76%) SSH
3 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
General
1 5 (29.41%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Analyst
1 4 (23.53%) SIEM Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Lead DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Network Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Digital Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Information Security Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Security Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Security Posture
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
3 3 (17.65%) Cyber Security Posture
3 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
3 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 3 (17.65%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (41.18%) Incident Response
2 7 (41.18%) Information Security
3 6 (35.29%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) Data Protection
4 5 (29.41%) Security Operations
4 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 4 (23.53%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (23.53%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (23.53%) SDLC
5 4 (23.53%) Threat Detection
6 3 (17.65%) Change Control
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) Product Backlog
6 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
6 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (17.65%) Threat Intelligence
6 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Go
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) CEH
2 4 (23.53%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
3 3 (17.65%) CCNP
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (17.65%) CISSP
4 2 (11.76%) Degree
4 2 (11.76%) GSEC
4 2 (11.76%) OSCP
5 1 (5.88%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (29.41%) NIST
3 2 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
3 2 (11.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
1 3 (17.65%) Firmware
1 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Dell DRAC
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Nessus
2 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.88%) Kibana
3 1 (5.88%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco
2 3 (17.65%) Dell
2 3 (17.65%) Meraki
2 3 (17.65%) Palo Alto
2 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
2 3 (17.65%) Zscaler
3 2 (11.76%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) Qualys