SIEM Jobs in the West Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for SIEM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SIEM over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 173 182
Rank change year-on-year -49 +9 -37
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 25 110 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.35% 1.65% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.70% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 20 53 52
10th Percentile £25,500 £43,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.85% +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £66,294 £73,000 £72,813
90th Percentile £81,750 £84,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £64,158 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.30% - +8.33%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,016 6,455 6,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.09% 96.85% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,532 3,272 4,743
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,510 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for SIEM in the West Midlands

SIEM
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SIEM in the West Midlands

SIEM
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -39 17 £44,500 -34.56% 4
Warwickshire +47 4 £45,000 +8.43%
Coventry +29 2 £58,750 -26.56%
Staffordshire -16 1 - - 1
Solihull -22 1 - -
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 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) Firewall
2 5 (20.00%) Network Security
3 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (4.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (24.00%) Legal
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.00%) Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Police
5 2 (8.00%) Finance
6 1 (4.00%) Games
6 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Security Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Junior
3 5 (20.00%) Junior Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 3 (12.00%) Head of Security
4 3 (12.00%) IT Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) IT Security Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Junior Security Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Security Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Incident Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Security Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Information Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) EDI
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth
1 1 (4.00%) OpenID
1 1 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.00%) Driving Licence
4 2 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (48.00%) Security Operations
3 9 (36.00%) Incident Response
4 8 (32.00%) ITIL
5 6 (24.00%) Agile
5 6 (24.00%) Information Security
5 6 (24.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 5 (20.00%) Time Management
7 4 (16.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 4 (16.00%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (16.00%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (16.00%) SOAR
7 4 (16.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 3 (12.00%) Code Quality
8 3 (12.00%) Creative Thinking
8 3 (12.00%) Cyber Intelligence
8 3 (12.00%) Digital Strategy
8 3 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (12.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (12.00%) CITP
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
4 2 (8.00%) CEH
4 2 (8.00%) CISSP
4 2 (8.00%) GCFA
4 2 (8.00%) GCFE
4 2 (8.00%) GCIH
4 2 (8.00%) GREM
4 2 (8.00%) OSCP
4 2 (8.00%) SANS
5 1 (4.00%) CISA
5 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.00%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (12.00%) QA
4 2 (8.00%) ISO 9001
4 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (4.00%) GDPR
5 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (4.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) CSIRT
1 2 (8.00%) EnCase
2 1 (4.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Sun
3 1 (4.00%) LogRhythm