SIEM Jobs in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 233 154
Rank change year-on-year +72 -79 +46
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 36 20 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.86% 0.25% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.31% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 18 14 45
10th Percentile £38,750 £29,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £47,813 £29,288 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,983 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% -10.80% +4.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,198 £72,500
90th Percentile £59,575 £84,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,814 6,401 5,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.20% 81.10% 96.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,573 4,665 3,155
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,350 £30,602
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
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 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

SIEM
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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
Warwickshire +13 11 - - 7
Solihull - 10 £55,000 - 1
Birmingham +34 9 £57,500 -9.40% 3
Staffordshire +21 2 £39,500 - 4
Herefordshire - 2 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Azure
2 4 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 3 (8.33%) AWS
4 2 (5.56%) SaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 24 (66.67%) Firewall
2 15 (41.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (19.44%) LAN
3 7 (19.44%) WAN
4 3 (8.33%) Network Security
5 2 (5.56%) DHCP
5 2 (5.56%) DNS
5 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.78%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (2.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Finance
3 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (13.89%) Retail
6 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.56%) Law
7 2 (5.56%) Legal
8 1 (2.78%) Automotive
8 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Lead
2 8 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Technical Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Technical Support
3 7 (19.44%) Technical Support Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Head of Operations
4 5 (13.89%) Head of Security
5 3 (8.33%) SOC Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Practitioner
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior
7 1 (2.78%) Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.78%) IT Security Officer
7 1 (2.78%) Security Officer
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Service Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (44.44%) Management Information System
2 10 (27.78%) Private Cloud
3 7 (19.44%) Data Centre
4 5 (13.89%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (13.89%) Security Posture
5 3 (8.33%) PKI
6 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 19 (52.78%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) Security Operations
2 19 (52.78%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (47.22%) Information Security
4 15 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (38.89%) ITIL
6 13 (36.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 12 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
8 11 (30.56%) Security Monitoring
9 10 (27.78%) Change Control
9 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
9 10 (27.78%) Commercial Awareness
9 10 (27.78%) Incident Management
9 10 (27.78%) Incident Response
9 10 (27.78%) IT Governance
10 8 (22.22%) Agile
10 8 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
11 7 (19.44%) Risk Assessment
11 7 (19.44%) Risk Management
12 5 (13.89%) Malware Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) Bash
1 13 (36.11%) Python
2 12 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 10 (27.78%) C#
4 3 (8.33%) Perl
5 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Degree
2 8 (22.22%) CISM
2 8 (22.22%) CISSP
3 6 (16.67%) SANS
4 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 3 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (5.56%) CASP
6 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.56%) IISP
6 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.78%) CISA
7 1 (2.78%) GIAC
7 1 (2.78%) ISACA
7 1 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (47.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (27.78%) COBIT
3 8 (22.22%) SLA
4 3 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (8.33%) NIST
5 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) QRadar
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.56%) Puppet
2 2 (5.56%) SCOM
3 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.22%) Cisco
3 7 (19.44%) Dell
3 7 (19.44%) Juniper
3 7 (19.44%) McAfee
3 7 (19.44%) Splunk
3 7 (19.44%) VMware
4 3 (8.33%) Google
5 2 (5.56%) ArcSight
5 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.78%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.78%) Tenable