SIEM Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

SIEM Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 435 504
Rank change year-on-year +63 +69 -86
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 31 22 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.092% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.098% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 17 15
10th Percentile £541 £449 -
25th Percentile £550 - £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £470 £313
Median % change year-on-year +70.21% +50.40% -40.48%
75th Percentile £825 £600 £319
90th Percentile - £622 -
UK median daily rate £800 £603 £313
% change year-on-year +32.78% +92.80% -40.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,132 22,540 29,612
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.26% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,680 15,813 20,744
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,158 1,481
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.01 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured SIEM Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in the UK excluding London

SIEM Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SIEM Engineer in the UK excluding London

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM Engineer in the UK excluding London

SIEM Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Midlands +39 13 £550 -
West Midlands +35 13 £550 -
South West - 11 £800 -
South East +11 5 £800 +70.21% 3
Yorkshire +22 2 £800 +18.52% 1
North of England +22 2 £800 +34.45% 1
SIEM Engineer
UK

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, SIEM Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) SIEM
2 27 (87.10%) Elasticsearch
3 24 (77.42%) Security Cleared
4 22 (70.97%) DV Cleared
5 14 (45.16%) Observability
6 13 (41.94%) Linux
7 12 (38.71%) logstash
7 12 (38.71%) Kibana
7 12 (38.71%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (38.71%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 12 (38.71%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (35.48%) Windows
9 10 (32.26%) Ubuntu
10 9 (29.03%) Active Directory
10 9 (29.03%) Visualisation
10 9 (29.03%) iptables
10 9 (29.03%) RBAC
11 8 (25.81%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (25.81%) DataOps
11 8 (25.81%) R
12 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
12 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
13 3 (9.68%) Incident Response
13 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
13 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 2 (6.45%) Cyber Defence
14 2 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
14 2 (6.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 2 (6.45%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 2 (6.45%) Social Skills

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (87.10%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
1 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.23%) Finance
2 1 (3.23%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (3.23%) Military
2 1 (3.23%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (38.71%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.45%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (6.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.23%) CSOC
3 1 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (41.94%) Linux
2 11 (35.48%) Windows
3 10 (32.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) SIEM
2 14 (45.16%) Observability
3 12 (38.71%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 9 (29.03%) RBAC
4 9 (29.03%) Visualisation
5 8 (25.81%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (25.81%) DataOps
6 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (9.68%) Incident Response
7 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
8 2 (6.45%) Incident Management
8 2 (6.45%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 2 (6.45%) Protective Monitoring
9 1 (3.23%) Analytics
9 1 (3.23%) Data Visualisation
9 1 (3.23%) DevOps
9 1 (3.23%) Project Management
9 1 (3.23%) Time Management
9 1 (3.23%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) R
2 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (77.42%) Security Cleared
2 22 (70.97%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) SANS
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Active Directory
1 9 (29.03%) iptables
Systems Management
1 12 (38.71%) Kibana
1 12 (38.71%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) ArcSight