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 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 231 162 193
Rank change year-on-year -69 +31 -60
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 22 108 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.29% 1.73% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.79% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16 47 50
10th Percentile £29,000 £48,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £29,863 £54,375 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +6.12% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66,595 £72,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,059 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.08% -2.99% +6.56%

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 6,171 6,037 7,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.41% 96.78% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,565 3,154 4,756
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64,375 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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

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 20 May 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -43 15 £55,233 -18.78% 8
Warwickshire +36 3 £45,000 -25.00% 1
Staffordshire -22 3 - - 1
Coventry +24 1 £52,500 -34.38% 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 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (40.91%) Firewall
2 5 (22.73%) Network Security
3 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 2 (9.09%) Wireshark
4 1 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 5 (22.73%) Legal
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Electronics
5 1 (4.55%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Analyst
2 7 (31.82%) Security Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) Security Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Junior
4 4 (18.18%) Junior Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 3 (13.64%) Head of Security
5 3 (13.64%) IT Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) IT Security Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) Junior Security Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) Senior
6 2 (9.09%) Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Incident Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Security Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Security Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) EDI
1 1 (4.55%) OAuth
1 1 (4.55%) OpenID
1 1 (4.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Management Information System
2 5 (22.73%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (13.64%) Security Posture
4 2 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 2 (9.09%) Driving Licence
4 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (54.55%) Security Operations
3 10 (45.45%) ITIL
4 9 (40.91%) Incident Response
5 7 (31.82%) Information Security
5 7 (31.82%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (27.27%) Agile
6 6 (27.27%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (22.73%) Business Continuity
7 5 (22.73%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (18.18%) Analytics
8 4 (18.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (18.18%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 4 (18.18%) Threat Intelligence
8 4 (18.18%) Time Management
9 3 (13.64%) Code Quality
9 3 (13.64%) Digital Strategy
9 3 (13.64%) Problem Management
9 3 (13.64%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) Degree
3 4 (18.18%) CEH
3 4 (18.18%) CISSP
3 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 3 (13.64%) CITP
5 2 (9.09%) CISA
5 2 (9.09%) CISM
5 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (9.09%) CRISC
5 2 (9.09%) GCFA
5 2 (9.09%) GCFE
5 2 (9.09%) GCIH
5 2 (9.09%) GIAC
5 2 (9.09%) GREM
5 2 (9.09%) OSCP
5 2 (9.09%) SANS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 3 (13.64%) QA
3 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.55%) ISO 9001
4 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (4.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) CSIRT
2 1 (4.55%) CASB
2 1 (4.55%) EnCase
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Sun
3 1 (4.55%) LogRhythm