SIEM Jobs in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 234 172
Rank change year-on-year -25 -62 +25
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 30 57 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.37% 0.58% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.70% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 26 51 54
10th Percentile £47,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £47,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +59.57% -18.97% +10.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - £67,968 £74,250
England median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,669 8,165 7,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.77% 82.81% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,125 6,197 3,919
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £30,831
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the North West

SIEM
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for SIEM in the North West

SIEM
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SIEM in the North West

SIEM
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +60 26 £75,000 +25.00% 25
Lancashire -67 3 £42,384 -15.23% 13
Merseyside +19 1 £58,500 +26.49% 1
SIEM
England

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
1 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.33%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (56.67%) Firewall
2 16 (53.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (6.67%) DNS
3 2 (6.67%) HTTP
3 2 (6.67%) SMTP
3 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) DB2
1 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 21 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.33%) Electronics
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Architect
2 14 (46.67%) Security Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Security Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) SOC Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Incident Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Incident Responder
5 2 (6.67%) Presales Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Security Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) SIEM Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Threat Hunter
6 1 (3.33%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Security Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Senior
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) JSON
1 1 (3.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 17 (56.67%) Management Information System
3 14 (46.67%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (46.67%) Social Media
3 14 (46.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (10.00%) Cyberattack
5 2 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (3.33%) Blog
6 1 (3.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (53.33%) Windows
2 14 (46.67%) Windows Vista
3 3 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (93.33%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (76.67%) Incident Response
3 20 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 19 (63.33%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (56.67%) Information Security
7 16 (53.33%) Cloud Security
7 16 (53.33%) Ethical Hacking
7 16 (53.33%) Security Architecture
8 15 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
8 15 (50.00%) Identity Management
8 15 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
8 15 (50.00%) Risk Management
9 14 (46.67%) Computer Science
9 14 (46.67%) Data Protection
9 14 (46.67%) DevSecOps
9 14 (46.67%) Information Assurance
9 14 (46.67%) Proactive Management
9 14 (46.67%) TOGAF
10 3 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.33%) Python
2 1 (3.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (63.33%) Degree
2 17 (56.67%) CEH
2 17 (56.67%) CISSP
3 16 (53.33%) CISM
4 14 (46.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 14 (46.67%) CISA
4 14 (46.67%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (46.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (46.67%) DBS Check
4 14 (46.67%) Master's Degree
5 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 4 (13.33%) CompTIA CySA+
6 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
7 1 (3.33%) MCSA
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (53.33%) NIST
3 14 (46.67%) GDPR
4 4 (13.33%) SLA
5 2 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) QRadar
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) AlienVault
2 4 (13.33%) Splunk
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco
3 2 (6.67%) Juniper
3 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.33%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) Imperva
4 1 (3.33%) Netskope
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Zscaler