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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 92 136
Rank change year-on-year +57 +44 -16
Contract jobs citing SIEM 154 74 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.74% 2.18% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.77% 2.43% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 67 23
10th Percentile £463 £420 £325
25th Percentile £525 £450 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £690 £669 £638
90th Percentile £825 £738 £698
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £72.50 £63.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £66.90
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +12.11% +167.60%
75th Percentile £63.44 £77.56 £71.50
90th Percentile £74.63 £77.68 £75.10
England median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year -46.67% +13.98% +31.60%

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 2,669 3,041 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.20% 89.41% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,686 2,207 2,346
10th Percentile £225 £313 £300
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.37%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 314 205
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.29 £21.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £59.90 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +23.56% +7.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.07 £68.81
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

SIEM
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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +32 113 £570 +8.57% 4
Gloucestershire +15 16 £625 -3.85% 1
Bristol +8 14 £579 +10.24% 3
Somerset - 6 £700 - 3
Dorset - 4 £800 - 1
SIEM
England

SIEM
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 17 (11.04%) Azure
2 10 (6.49%) AWS
3 4 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (2.60%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (0.65%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.99%) Network Security
2 11 (7.14%) Firewall
3 10 (6.49%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (1.95%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.30%) DHCP
5 2 (1.30%) DNS
6 1 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (5.19%) JIRA
2 2 (1.30%) Artifactory
General
1 75 (48.70%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (7.79%) Telecoms
4 11 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 9 (5.84%) Military
5 9 (5.84%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.55%) Legal
7 6 (3.90%) Finance
8 2 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.65%) Electronics
9 1 (0.65%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.65%) Marketing
9 1 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 72 (46.75%) Analyst
2 28 (18.18%) SOC Analyst
3 22 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 18 (11.69%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 18 (11.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 13 (8.44%) Lead
5 13 (8.44%) SOC Engineer
6 12 (7.79%) Security Engineer
7 11 (7.14%) Cyber Defence Analyst
8 9 (5.84%) Consultant
9 8 (5.19%) Compliance Analyst
9 8 (5.19%) Data Analyst
9 8 (5.19%) Data Compliance Analyst
9 8 (5.19%) Project Manager
9 8 (5.19%) SOC Manager
10 7 (4.55%) SIEM Consultant
11 5 (3.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 5 (3.25%) Security Analyst
11 5 (3.25%) SIEM Engineer
12 4 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.65%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 64 (41.56%) Cyber Threat
2 54 (35.06%) Cyber Defence
3 43 (27.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 42 (27.27%) Security Operations Centre
5 32 (20.78%) Management Information System
6 25 (16.23%) CSOC
7 6 (3.90%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.90%) Operational Technology
7 6 (3.90%) Private Cloud
8 5 (3.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (3.25%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.60%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.95%) SCADA
11 1 (0.65%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.65%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.65%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.60%) Linux
1 4 (2.60%) Windows
2 3 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.95%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.30%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (74.68%) Cybersecurity
2 81 (52.60%) Incident Response
3 80 (51.95%) Use Case
4 77 (50.00%) SOAR
5 66 (42.86%) Security Operations
6 61 (39.61%) Threat Intelligence
7 60 (38.96%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 58 (37.66%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 51 (33.12%) Incident Management
10 46 (29.87%) Information Security
11 44 (28.57%) Mentoring
12 43 (27.92%) Protective Monitoring
13 39 (25.32%) Root Cause Analysis
14 36 (23.38%) Case Management
15 35 (22.73%) CRM
16 32 (20.78%) Analytics
17 24 (15.58%) Security Architecture
17 24 (15.58%) Time Management
18 22 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
18 22 (14.29%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.90%) C#
2 2 (1.30%) Java
Qualifications
1 133 (86.36%) Security Cleared
2 118 (76.62%) DV Cleared
3 27 (17.53%) SANS
4 26 (16.88%) Degree
5 14 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 8 (5.19%) CISSP
7 7 (4.55%) CISM
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.65%) CCNA
8 1 (0.65%) CEH
8 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.65%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.65%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (36.36%) NIST
2 48 (31.17%) NIST 800
3 4 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.60%) NCSC
4 2 (1.30%) GDPR
4 2 (1.30%) ISA99
System Software
1 3 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.30%) Docker
2 2 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (4.55%) Kibana
1 7 (4.55%) logstash
2 5 (3.25%) Terraform
3 4 (2.60%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 2 (1.30%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.30%) SCCM
4 2 (1.30%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.65%) Puppet
5 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (37.01%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.09%) Splunk
3 10 (6.49%) Cisco
4 9 (5.84%) Tanium
5 2 (1.30%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.30%) LogRhythm
5 2 (1.30%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.30%) SAP
5 2 (1.30%) Veeam
5 2 (1.30%) VMware
6 1 (0.65%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.65%) Qualys