SIEM Contracts in the Thames Valley

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 124 92 133
Rank change year-on-year -32 +41 -13
Contract jobs citing SIEM 17 54 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.65% 1.92% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 2.11% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 47 22
10th Percentile £482 £444 £381
25th Percentile £500 £470 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% +28.49%
75th Percentile £593 £627 £650
90th Percentile £620 £660 £723
South East median daily rate £615 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +6.96% - +16.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,273 2,564 3,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.09% 91.12% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,262 1,770 2,157
10th Percentile £213 £320 £227
25th Percentile £370 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year - +2.99% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +1.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 64 87
10th Percentile £14.17 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.13 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.05 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.85% +200.29% -19.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.42
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SIEM in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -25 11 £575 +4.55% 8
Buckinghamshire -1 5 £550 -1.79%
Oxfordshire +8 1 - - 1
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) LAN
2 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.76%) WAN
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) SOC Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Head of Information
3 3 (17.65%) Head of Information Security
3 3 (17.65%) Head of Operations
3 3 (17.65%) Head of Security
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Security Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Security Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Security Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) ArcSight Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) OAuth
1 2 (11.76%) OpenID
1 2 (11.76%) SAML
2 1 (5.88%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.88%) CSOC
3 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Linux
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (47.06%) Security Operations
3 6 (35.29%) Information Security
3 6 (35.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
4 4 (23.53%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (17.65%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (17.65%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (11.76%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
6 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
6 2 (11.76%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (11.76%) SOAR
6 2 (11.76%) Use Case
7 1 (5.88%) Application Security
7 1 (5.88%) Blue Team
7 1 (5.88%) Red Team
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) PCI DSS
2 2 (11.76%) COBIT
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.76%) XenApp
3 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 3 (17.65%) Nessus
2 2 (11.76%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Splunk
2 4 (23.53%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco
4 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
4 2 (11.76%) Citrix
4 2 (11.76%) VMware
5 1 (5.88%) ArcSight
5 1 (5.88%) LogRhythm
5 1 (5.88%) Netskope
5 1 (5.88%) Proofpoint
5 1 (5.88%) TippingPoint
5 1 (5.88%) Trend Micro
5 1 (5.88%) Zscaler