The first table below looks at the demand for SIEM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SIEM over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Edinburgh region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Rank 53 - 66
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SIEM 3 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.370% - 0.224%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.545% - 0.341%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £460 £338 £450
% change year-on-year
+36.29% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
550 740 881
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 67.90% 66.91% 65.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 373 484
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £488 £549
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 9
Average hourly rate £19.50 £25.75 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.27% +60.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £14.37 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.35 £32.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
SIEM
Scotland

SIEM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SIEM across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Edinburgh SIEM Jobs Demand Trend

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SIEM across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh SIEM Daily Rate Trend

SIEM
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing SIEM also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SIEM.

1 16 (84.21%) Information Security
2 15 (78.95%) Intrusion Detection
2 15 (78.95%) Firewall
3 12 (63.16%) Incident Management
4 10 (52.63%) ArcSight
5 8 (42.11%) CISSP
6 6 (31.58%) PMP
6 6 (31.58%) PMI Certification
6 6 (31.58%) Project Management
6 6 (31.58%) GIAC
7 4 (21.05%) UNIX
7 4 (21.05%) Windows
7 4 (21.05%) Linux
7 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
7 4 (21.05%) Finance
8 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
8 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
8 3 (15.79%) Financial Institution
8 3 (15.79%) Change Control
8 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
9 2 (10.53%) Network Security
9 2 (10.53%) Advertising
10 1 (5.263%) Service Management
10 1 (5.263%) Splunk
10 1 (5.263%) Banking

SIEM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing SIEM also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SIEM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 15 (78.95%) Firewall
1 15 (78.95%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
3 2 (10.53%) Network Security
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.53%) Advertising
4 1 (5.263%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Security Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Security Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Information Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Security Specialist
5 1 (5.263%) Network Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Information Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Information Security Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Security Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) IT Security Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) UNIX
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Information Security
2 12 (63.16%) Incident Management
3 6 (31.58%) Project Management
4 3 (15.79%) Change Control
4 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (5.263%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) CISSP
2 6 (31.58%) PMP
2 6 (31.58%) PMI Certification
2 6 (31.58%) GIAC
Systems Management
1 1 (5.263%) Splunk
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) ArcSight
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft