SIEM Job Trends in Yorkshire

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > Yorkshire

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 121 127
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +144
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 43 27 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.14% 0.99% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.07% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 39 19 53
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,350 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £55,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.03% -12.50% -
75th Percentile - £64,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £69,500 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +2.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,908 2,516 3,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 77.01% 91.86% 87.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,716 1,047 3,093
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,150 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +6.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £66,778
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,205 £55,440
% change year-on-year -11.58% +12.20% -11.30%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SIEM
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SIEM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SIEM

SIEM
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Salary histogram for SIEM in Yorkshire

SIEM
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 February 2026. 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 Yorkshire -29 8 £52,500 +2.44% 5
North Yorkshire -4 5 £75,000 +66.67% 4
East Yorkshire - 4 £46,250 -
South Yorkshire -18 2 £65,000 +5.69%
SIEM
England

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 21 (48.84%) Entra ID
1 21 (48.84%) Microsoft Purview
2 5 (11.63%) AWS
3 4 (9.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (9.30%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) SaaS
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.33%) Datadog
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (53.49%) Firewall
2 7 (16.28%) Network Security
3 3 (6.98%) Asterisk PBX
3 3 (6.98%) BGP
3 3 (6.98%) DHCP
3 3 (6.98%) DNS
3 3 (6.98%) LAN
3 3 (6.98%) MPLS
3 3 (6.98%) SD-WAN
3 3 (6.98%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (6.98%) VoIP
3 3 (6.98%) VPLS
3 3 (6.98%) VPN
3 3 (6.98%) WAN
4 2 (4.65%) SMTP
5 1 (2.33%) Internet
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) GitLab
2 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (67.44%) Social Skills
2 26 (60.47%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (6.98%) Legal
4 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Retail
5 1 (2.33%) Finance
5 1 (2.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (48.84%) Lead
2 9 (20.93%) Analyst
3 8 (18.60%) Security Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Cyber Defence Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Information Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Information Security Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) IT Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) IT Support
6 3 (6.98%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) CyberArk Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) Professional Services Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Security Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (4.65%) REST
2 2 (4.65%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (48.84%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.63%) Operational Technology
3 3 (6.98%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (6.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (6.98%) PKI
4 2 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Windows
2 5 (11.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (74.42%) Incident Response
2 29 (67.44%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (65.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (58.14%) Data Protection
5 24 (55.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (48.84%) BCP
6 21 (48.84%) Business Continuity
6 21 (48.84%) Business Continuity Planning
6 21 (48.84%) Decision-Making
6 21 (48.84%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (48.84%) Information Governance
6 21 (48.84%) Risk Management
6 21 (48.84%) Risk Register
6 21 (48.84%) Security Architecture
7 7 (16.28%) Cloud Security
8 6 (13.95%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (13.95%) Threat Detection
9 5 (11.63%) CI/CD
9 5 (11.63%) DevOps
9 5 (11.63%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.63%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.30%) Bicep
3 1 (2.33%) Bash
3 1 (2.33%) Python
3 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) CISSP
3 3 (6.98%) CCNA
3 3 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (6.98%) CISM
3 3 (6.98%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) GIAC
3 3 (6.98%) SANS
4 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) CEH
5 1 (2.33%) GCFA
5 1 (2.33%) GCFE
5 1 (2.33%) GCIA
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (67.44%) NIST
2 26 (60.47%) Cyber Essentials
2 26 (60.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (53.49%) GDPR
4 2 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (4.65%) GRC
4 2 (4.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.98%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.98%) VMware NSX
2 3 (6.98%) vSphere
3 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (6.98%) Ansible
1 3 (6.98%) Terraform
1 3 (6.98%) WSUS
2 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (60.47%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Splunk
2 3 (6.98%) VMware
3 2 (4.65%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.33%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle
4 1 (2.33%) Qualys
4 1 (2.33%) Rapid7