SIEM Jobs in the Midlands

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring SIEM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SIEM over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 312 141
Rank change year-on-year +103 -171 +112
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 55 30 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.81% 0.21% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.27% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 34 24 69
10th Percentile £39,500 £29,000 £39,995
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,813 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% -2.61%
75th Percentile £58,438 £68,470 £72,500
90th Percentile £66,575 £78,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,162 11,128 8,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 90.93% 79.24% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,588 7,655 4,352
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the Midlands

SIEM
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the Midlands.

Salary trend for SIEM in the Midlands

SIEM
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for SIEM in the Midlands

SIEM
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +81 40 £55,000 +4.76% 28
East Midlands +54 15 £45,000 -14.29% 17
SIEM
England

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (45.45%) Azure
2 10 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (14.55%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (9.09%) AWS
5 4 (7.27%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.64%) IaaS
6 2 (3.64%) SaaS
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon Macie
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.82%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.82%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (45.45%) Firewall
2 16 (29.09%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (16.36%) LAN
3 9 (16.36%) WAN
4 6 (10.91%) Network Security
5 3 (5.45%) DHCP
6 2 (3.64%) DNS
6 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.64%) VPN
7 1 (1.82%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.82%) Internet
7 1 (1.82%) SAN
7 1 (1.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
General
1 24 (43.64%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.00%) Finance
3 10 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (9.09%) Retail
6 2 (3.64%) Law
6 2 (3.64%) Legal
6 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Automotive
7 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (23.64%) Analyst
2 11 (20.00%) Lead
2 11 (20.00%) Senior
3 9 (16.36%) SOC Analyst
3 9 (16.36%) Support Engineer
4 8 (14.55%) Senior Analyst
4 8 (14.55%) Technical Engineer
4 8 (14.55%) Technical Support
4 8 (14.55%) Technical Support Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Head of Operations
5 5 (9.09%) Head of Security
5 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Security Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Active Directory Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Backup Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Cybersecurity Practitioner
8 2 (3.64%) Monitoring Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) SOC Manager
9 1 (1.82%) Systems Monitoring Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.91%) Management Information System
2 10 (18.18%) Private Cloud
3 8 (14.55%) Data Centre
4 5 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (7.27%) Security Posture
6 3 (5.45%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (3.64%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (3.64%) PKI
8 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (7.27%) Linux
2 4 (7.27%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) Problem-Solving
1 23 (41.82%) Security Operations
2 21 (38.18%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (38.18%) Incident Response
3 18 (32.73%) Information Security
4 17 (30.91%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 15 (27.27%) ITIL
5 15 (27.27%) Security Monitoring
6 14 (25.45%) Incident Management
7 12 (21.82%) Kalman Filter
8 11 (20.00%) Change Control
8 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 11 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
9 10 (18.18%) Commercial Awareness
9 10 (18.18%) IT Governance
10 9 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (16.36%) Proactive Monitoring
11 8 (14.55%) Agile
11 8 (14.55%) ITSM
11 8 (14.55%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.45%) PowerShell
1 14 (25.45%) Python
2 13 (23.64%) Bash
3 10 (18.18%) C#
4 8 (14.55%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (5.45%) Perl
6 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.82%) Go
7 1 (1.82%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) Degree
2 10 (18.18%) CISSP
3 8 (14.55%) CISM
4 6 (10.91%) SANS
4 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
5 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
6 3 (5.45%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.64%) CASP
7 2 (3.64%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.64%) IISP
8 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.82%) CCNA
8 1 (1.82%) CISA
8 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.82%) GIAC
8 1 (1.82%) ISACA
8 1 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (32.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (18.18%) COBIT
2 10 (18.18%) SLA
3 4 (7.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (7.27%) NIST
4 3 (5.45%) GDPR
5 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (16.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (14.55%) Docker
3 6 (10.91%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) QRadar
2 2 (3.64%) Ansible
2 2 (3.64%) Progress Chef
2 2 (3.64%) Puppet
2 2 (3.64%) SCOM
3 1 (1.82%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.82%) Kibana
3 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.18%) Cisco
2 10 (18.18%) Splunk
2 10 (18.18%) VMware
3 8 (14.55%) Dell
3 8 (14.55%) Juniper
3 8 (14.55%) McAfee
4 3 (5.45%) LogRhythm
5 2 (3.64%) ArcSight
5 2 (3.64%) Google
5 2 (3.64%) Rapid7
5 2 (3.64%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.64%) Veeam
6 1 (1.82%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.82%) Datto
6 1 (1.82%) IBM
6 1 (1.82%) Meraki
6 1 (1.82%) Pega