SIEM Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for SIEM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SIEM over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 78 145
Rank change year-on-year +38 +67 -37
Contract jobs citing SIEM 77 52 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.07% 2.29% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 2.60% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 43 30
10th Percentile £421 £445 £411
25th Percentile £525 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £700 £681 £700
90th Percentile £848 £700 £1,100
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,583 2,001 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.71% 88.19% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,364 2,356
10th Percentile £275 £263 £274
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% +15.29%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 67
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +3.09%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.10
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in the West Midlands

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Herefordshire +4 39 £583 -10.31%
Birmingham +29 21 £600 0.00% 8
Worcestershire +14 6 £550 +4.76%
Staffordshire +5 1 - - 1
Warwickshire -4 1 £625 +8.70% 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 (1.30%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.49%) Azure
1 5 (6.49%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (1.30%) Amazon S3
2 1 (1.30%) AWS
2 1 (1.30%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (25.97%) Firewall
1 20 (25.97%) Network Security
2 16 (20.78%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (7.79%) TCP/IP
4 5 (6.49%) DHCP
4 5 (6.49%) DNS
5 1 (1.30%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.30%) VPN
5 1 (1.30%) Wireless
5 1 (1.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.48%) Big Data
1 15 (19.48%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.30%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 26 (33.77%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (20.78%) Public Sector
3 12 (15.58%) Social Skills
4 11 (14.29%) Legal
5 3 (3.90%) Finance
5 3 (3.90%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.60%) Military
7 1 (1.30%) Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.30%) Law
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (35.06%) Analyst
2 18 (23.38%) SOC Analyst
3 13 (16.88%) SIEM Engineer
4 9 (11.69%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 8 (10.39%) Security Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Security Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Elasticsearch Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) SOC Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Data Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Lead
10 2 (2.60%) Security Manager
10 2 (2.60%) Systems Engineer
11 1 (1.30%) Consultant
11 1 (1.30%) Junior
11 1 (1.30%) Linux Engineer
11 1 (1.30%) Programme Manager
11 1 (1.30%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (19.48%) Apache NiFi
2 14 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.60%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.30%) Kafka
4 1 (1.30%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 33 (42.86%) Cyber Defence
2 22 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 19 (24.68%) Distributed Applications
4 14 (18.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 12 (15.58%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (12.99%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (10.39%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.60%) Security Posture
9 2 (2.60%) Taxonomies
10 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
10 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.30%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 44 (57.14%) Linux
2 32 (41.56%) Windows
3 18 (23.38%) Unix
4 13 (16.88%) Android
4 13 (16.88%) Apple iOS
5 11 (14.29%) Mac OS X
6 10 (12.99%) Ubuntu
7 5 (6.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (6.49%) Windows Server
8 1 (1.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (68.83%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (32.47%) Information Security
3 23 (29.87%) Data Pipeline
4 22 (28.57%) Incident Management
5 21 (27.27%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 21 (27.27%) Security Operations
6 17 (22.08%) Security Architecture
7 16 (20.78%) Actionable Insight
7 16 (20.78%) Data Management
8 15 (19.48%) Data Engineering
9 14 (18.18%) Incident Response
9 14 (18.18%) Visualisation
10 13 (16.88%) Analytics
10 13 (16.88%) Kalman Filter
10 13 (16.88%) Risk Management
10 13 (16.88%) Vulnerability Management
11 12 (15.58%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure Monitoring
11 12 (15.58%) Malware Reverse Engineering
11 12 (15.58%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.39%) R
2 5 (6.49%) C#
2 5 (6.49%) Java
3 2 (2.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 62 (80.52%) Security Cleared
2 34 (44.16%) DV Cleared
3 29 (37.66%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.19%) CISSP
4 4 (5.19%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.19%) Degree
5 3 (3.90%) GIAC
6 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.60%) BC Cleared
6 2 (2.60%) CASP
6 2 (2.60%) CEH
6 2 (2.60%) GCED
6 2 (2.60%) GSEC
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (35.06%) NIST
2 15 (19.48%) Actionable Recommendations
3 13 (16.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (15.58%) GDPR
5 11 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (14.29%) HIPAA
6 8 (10.39%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.30%) GPG13
7 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 9 (11.69%) Active Directory
1 9 (11.69%) iptables
2 5 (6.49%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (6.49%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.30%) Snort
Systems Management
1 15 (19.48%) Kibana
2 14 (18.18%) logstash
3 5 (6.49%) SCCM
3 5 (6.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 5 (6.49%) Veeam
3 5 (6.49%) VMware
4 4 (5.19%) LogRhythm
5 3 (3.90%) TippingPoint
6 2 (2.60%) Citrix
6 2 (2.60%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.60%) Splunk
6 2 (2.60%) Trend Micro
7 1 (1.30%) F5
7 1 (1.30%) Google
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle
7 1 (1.30%) Qualys
7 1 (1.30%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.30%) Sophos