SIEM Contracts in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 88 145
Rank change year-on-year +60 +57 -21
Contract jobs citing SIEM 168 84 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.26% 2.32% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.34% 2.58% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 69 28
10th Percentile £463 £425 £343
25th Percentile £525 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -7.08% +2.73%
75th Percentile £660 £660 £638
90th Percentile £825 £729 £713
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.75 £63.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £72.90 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -45.13% +10.79% -
75th Percentile £63.44 £77.50 £72.90
90th Percentile £74.63 £77.98 £75.66
England median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year -46.67% +13.98% +19.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,648 3,251 3,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.98% 89.66% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 2,398 2,327
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.30%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 334 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SIEM in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SIEM in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Wiltshire +32 121 £570 +11.22% 3
Gloucestershire +22 16 £625 -3.85% 1
Bristol +8 14 £579 +7.67% 8
Dorset - 11 £800 - 2
Somerset +10 4 £700 +10.67% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 23 (13.69%) Azure
2 10 (5.95%) AWS
3 4 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (2.38%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (0.60%) Azure Stack
4 1 (0.60%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.31%) Network Security
2 16 (9.52%) Firewall
3 10 (5.95%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (2.98%) Unified Communications
4 5 (2.98%) WAN
5 3 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.19%) DHCP
6 2 (1.19%) DNS
7 1 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (4.76%) JIRA
2 2 (1.19%) Artifactory
General
1 68 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.55%) Manufacturing
3 11 (6.55%) Telecoms
4 10 (5.95%) Finance
4 10 (5.95%) Military
5 9 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.17%) Legal
7 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.60%) Electronics
8 1 (0.60%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.60%) Marketing
8 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 82 (48.81%) Analyst
2 35 (20.83%) SOC Analyst
3 27 (16.07%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 20 (11.90%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 20 (11.90%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 17 (10.12%) SOC Engineer
6 13 (7.74%) Lead
7 12 (7.14%) SIEM Engineer
8 11 (6.55%) Cyber Defence Analyst
8 11 (6.55%) Security Engineer
9 8 (4.76%) Compliance Analyst
9 8 (4.76%) Data Analyst
9 8 (4.76%) Data Compliance Analyst
9 8 (4.76%) Project Manager
9 8 (4.76%) SOC Manager
10 7 (4.17%) Architect
11 6 (3.57%) Consultant
12 5 (2.98%) Network Architect
12 5 (2.98%) Security Analyst
13 4 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 55 (32.74%) Cyber Threat
2 48 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 43 (25.60%) Cyber Defence
4 34 (20.24%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 25 (14.88%) CSOC
5 25 (14.88%) Management Information System
6 7 (4.17%) Private Cloud
7 6 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.57%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.38%) Operational Technology
8 4 (2.38%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.60%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.60%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.38%) Linux
1 4 (2.38%) Windows
2 3 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.79%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.19%) Unix
4 1 (0.60%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 83 (49.40%) SOAR
3 76 (45.24%) Security Operations
4 75 (44.64%) Incident Response
5 72 (42.86%) Use Case
6 58 (34.52%) Threat Intelligence
7 56 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 53 (31.55%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 40 (23.81%) Incident Management
10 38 (22.62%) Information Security
11 33 (19.64%) Analytics
11 33 (19.64%) Mentoring
12 31 (18.45%) Protective Monitoring
12 31 (18.45%) Root Cause Analysis
13 28 (16.67%) Case Management
14 27 (16.07%) CRM
14 27 (16.07%) Open Source
14 27 (16.07%) OSINT
15 26 (15.48%) Malware Analysis
16 24 (14.29%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.57%) C#
2 2 (1.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 149 (88.69%) Security Cleared
2 128 (76.19%) DV Cleared
3 27 (16.07%) SANS
4 26 (15.48%) Degree
5 21 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 9 (5.36%) CISSP
7 7 (4.17%) CISM
8 2 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.60%) CEH
9 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.60%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (27.98%) NIST
2 39 (23.21%) NIST 800
3 4 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.38%) NCSC
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) ISA99
System Software
1 3 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.19%) Docker
2 2 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (2.98%) Terraform
2 4 (2.38%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 2 (1.19%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.19%) SCCM
3 2 (1.19%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.60%) Puppet
4 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.93%) Cisco
3 14 (8.33%) Splunk
4 2 (1.19%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.19%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.19%) SAP
4 2 (1.19%) Veeam
4 2 (1.19%) VMware
5 1 (0.60%) ArcSight
5 1 (0.60%) LogRhythm