SIEM Contracts in England

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 161 337
Rank change year-on-year +11 +176 -42
Contract jobs citing SIEM 580 752 566
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.60% 1.57% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.74% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 553 402
10th Percentile £425 £450 £387
25th Percentile £513 £500 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £783 £799
UK median daily rate £595 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -0.83% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 6
10th Percentile - £62.75 £56.25
25th Percentile - £67.63 £58.01
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +13.98% +31.60%
75th Percentile £63.44 £77.63 £69.31
90th Percentile £74.63 £88.15 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year -46.67% +13.98% +31.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,359 43,239 64,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.26% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,563 30,348 45,861
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,244 1,528 1,759
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.02 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% +47.08% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM in England.

Daily rate trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in England

SIEM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIEM in England.

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SIEM in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SIEM in England

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the England region over the 6 months to 21 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
London -10 188 £600 -6.83% 99
South West +58 162 £570 +6.05% 16
South East +23 118 £615 +6.96% 51
Midlands +27 77 £584 -2.67% 16
West Midlands +34 75 £584 -2.67% 13
North of England -63 30 £750 +33.27% 48
Yorkshire -15 21 £800 +39.13% 32
North West -39 9 £596 +8.36% 15
East of England +15 5 £600 +41.18% 7
East Midlands +3 2 £596 -1.65% 3
SIEM
UK

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (1.38%) Confluence
2 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.17%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 97 (16.72%) Azure
2 41 (7.07%) AWS
3 28 (4.83%) Azure Sentinel
4 20 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (2.93%) SaaS
6 12 (2.07%) IaaS
7 10 (1.72%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (1.38%) GCP
10 7 (1.21%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (0.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (0.69%) PaaS
12 3 (0.52%) AWS KMS
12 3 (0.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (0.52%) Mimecast
12 3 (0.52%) Serverless
13 2 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.34%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 102 (17.59%) Firewall
2 60 (10.34%) Network Security
3 26 (4.48%) TCP/IP
4 25 (4.31%) Intrusion Detection
5 21 (3.62%) SD-WAN
6 17 (2.93%) DNS
7 15 (2.59%) WAN
8 12 (2.07%) Cisco ISE
9 10 (1.72%) DHCP
10 9 (1.55%) HTTP
11 5 (0.86%) LAN
11 5 (0.86%) VPN
11 5 (0.86%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.69%) FTP
12 4 (0.69%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.69%) SMTP
13 3 (0.52%) ICMP
13 3 (0.52%) IPsec
13 3 (0.52%) POP3
13 3 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.10%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (2.41%) Big Data
3 4 (0.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.34%) Power BI
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.17%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.17%) MySQL
5 1 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (2.76%) JIRA
2 3 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.34%) Git
4 1 (0.17%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 131 (22.59%) Social Skills
2 93 (16.03%) Finance
3 73 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (6.55%) Public Sector
5 37 (6.38%) Banking
6 18 (3.10%) Legal
7 15 (2.59%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.41%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.07%) Military
10 3 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.34%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.34%) Law
11 2 (0.34%) Police
11 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.34%) Retail
12 1 (0.17%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.17%) Electronics
12 1 (0.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 175 (30.17%) Analyst
2 88 (15.17%) SOC Analyst
3 76 (13.10%) Security Engineer
4 68 (11.72%) Architect
5 56 (9.66%) SIEM Engineer
6 41 (7.07%) Senior
7 40 (6.90%) Consultant
7 40 (6.90%) Lead
8 35 (6.03%) Security Analyst
9 34 (5.86%) Network Architect
10 33 (5.69%) SOC Engineer
11 31 (5.34%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
12 27 (4.66%) Security Consultant
13 26 (4.48%) Security Architect
14 21 (3.62%) ArcSight Engineer
15 20 (3.45%) Cyber Threat Analyst
15 20 (3.45%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
16 18 (3.10%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 18 (3.10%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 17 (2.93%) Cyber Defence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (2.41%) Apache NiFi
3 8 (1.38%) SAML
4 6 (1.03%) OAuth
5 5 (0.86%) Regular Expression
6 4 (0.69%) JSON
6 4 (0.69%) OpenID
7 3 (0.52%) Kafka
7 3 (0.52%) XML
8 2 (0.34%) Ajax
8 2 (0.34%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.34%) AWS SAM
8 2 (0.34%) CSS
8 2 (0.34%) HTML
8 2 (0.34%) REST
8 2 (0.34%) RESTful
8 2 (0.34%) SOAP
8 2 (0.34%) Web Services
8 2 (0.34%) YAML
9 1 (0.17%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 111 (19.14%) Cyber Threat
2 97 (16.72%) Cyber Defence
3 83 (14.31%) Management Information System
4 78 (13.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 77 (13.28%) Security Operations Centre
6 31 (5.34%) Security Posture
7 27 (4.66%) CSOC
8 24 (4.14%) PKI
9 19 (3.28%) Distributed Applications
10 15 (2.59%) Cloud Native
11 12 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.72%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.55%) Operational Technology
14 8 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.38%) Cyberattack
14 8 (1.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 8 (1.38%) Onboarding
15 7 (1.21%) Private Cloud
16 6 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 82 (14.14%) Linux
2 78 (13.45%) Windows
3 27 (4.66%) Unix
4 21 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.10%) Windows Server
6 13 (2.24%) Mac OS X
7 12 (2.07%) Android
7 12 (2.07%) Apple iOS
8 11 (1.90%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.34%) zOS
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (52.24%) Cybersecurity
2 180 (31.03%) Security Operations
3 176 (30.34%) Incident Response
4 123 (21.21%) Information Security
5 113 (19.48%) Use Case
6 110 (18.97%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 104 (17.93%) SOAR
8 98 (16.90%) Threat Intelligence
9 96 (16.55%) Vulnerability Management
10 91 (15.69%) Incident Management
11 86 (14.83%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 66 (11.38%) Mentoring
13 63 (10.86%) Security Architecture
14 62 (10.69%) Protective Monitoring
15 59 (10.17%) Cloud Security
16 58 (10.00%) Analytics
17 51 (8.79%) Data Loss Prevention
18 50 (8.62%) Root Cause Analysis
19 44 (7.59%) Case Management
20 39 (6.72%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 41 (7.07%) PowerShell
2 30 (5.17%) Python
3 13 (2.24%) Kusto Query Language
4 12 (2.07%) C#
5 9 (1.55%) Bash
6 8 (1.38%) R
7 7 (1.21%) Java
8 5 (0.86%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.69%) SQL
10 3 (0.52%) VBScript
11 2 (0.34%) Go
12 1 (0.17%) Perl
12 1 (0.17%) Ruby
12 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 323 (55.69%) Security Cleared
2 236 (40.69%) DV Cleared
3 74 (12.76%) SC Cleared
4 63 (10.86%) Degree
5 62 (10.69%) CISSP
6 31 (5.34%) SANS
7 25 (4.31%) CISM
8 18 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (2.93%) CEH
10 16 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (2.24%) CompTIA Security+
11 13 (2.24%) GIAC
12 9 (1.55%) CCNP
13 6 (1.03%) CCNA
13 6 (1.03%) CCSP
14 5 (0.86%) GCIA
14 5 (0.86%) GCIH
15 4 (0.69%) CISA
15 4 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
15 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (22.41%) NIST
2 64 (11.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (10.00%) NIST 800
4 22 (3.79%) GDPR
5 19 (3.28%) PCI DSS
6 16 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 15 (2.59%) HIPAA
8 14 (2.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (1.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (1.21%) NCSC
11 6 (1.03%) GRC
12 4 (0.69%) COBIT
12 4 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.52%) QA
14 2 (0.34%) ISA99
14 2 (0.34%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.34%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.17%) GPG13
15 1 (0.17%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 34 (5.86%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.55%) iptables
4 7 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.21%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.03%) Docker
6 2 (0.34%) Snort
6 2 (0.34%) XenApp
7 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (3.79%) Kibana
2 21 (3.62%) logstash
3 15 (2.59%) Terraform
4 14 (2.41%) QRadar
5 11 (1.90%) SCCM
6 10 (1.72%) Nessus
7 7 (1.21%) ArcSight ESM
7 7 (1.21%) Kubernetes
7 7 (1.21%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.03%) Ansible
8 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.69%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 4 (0.69%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 3 (0.52%) CASB
11 3 (0.52%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.52%) Grafana
11 3 (0.52%) Nmap
12 2 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 160 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 51 (8.79%) Splunk
3 35 (6.03%) ArcSight
3 35 (6.03%) LogRhythm
4 27 (4.66%) Cisco
5 23 (3.97%) Qualys
6 18 (3.10%) Varonis
7 17 (2.93%) Forcepoint
8 13 (2.24%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.24%) VMware
9 11 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (1.72%) Palo Alto
10 10 (1.72%) Rapid7
11 7 (1.21%) Veeam
12 6 (1.03%) Zscaler
13 5 (0.86%) CheckPoint
13 5 (0.86%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.86%) Oracle
13 5 (0.86%) Sophos
14 4 (0.69%) Citrix