SIEM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 147 267
Rank change year-on-year +37 +120 -38
Contract jobs citing SIEM 398 414 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.94% 1.76% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 1.97% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 309 190
10th Percentile £425 £413 £331
25th Percentile £513 £470 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £558 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% -3.04% +13.86%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £688
90th Percentile £825 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £72.90 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -45.13% +10.79% +31.60%
75th Percentile £63.44 £77.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £77.98 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year -46.67% +13.98% +19.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SIEM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South West +61 165 £570 +8.57% 15
South East +20 121 £625 +7.53% 28
Midlands +51 86 £600 - 7
West Midlands +54 84 £600 - 6
North of England -58 31 £700 +24.38% 28
Yorkshire -7 21 £800 +39.13% 14
Scotland +41 15 £515 -10.43% 10
North West -39 10 £625 +13.64% 13
East of England +7 6 £600 +41.18% 7
Wales +6 2 £298 -30.00% 6
East Midlands +5 2 £596 -1.65% 1
SIEM
UK

SIEM
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.25%) Confluence
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 48 (12.06%) Azure
2 23 (5.78%) AWS
3 13 (3.27%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (1.01%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.50%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.50%) GCP
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.25%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.25%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.25%) IaaS
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.25%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.25%) PaaS
7 1 (0.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (12.31%) Firewall
2 43 (10.80%) Network Security
3 19 (4.77%) Intrusion Detection
4 13 (3.27%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.51%) Cisco ISE
6 9 (2.26%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.76%) DHCP
7 7 (1.76%) DNS
8 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.50%) LAN
9 2 (0.50%) SNMP
9 2 (0.50%) WAN
9 2 (0.50%) Wireless
10 1 (0.25%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.25%) VPN
10 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.29%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (3.77%) Big Data
3 4 (1.01%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.25%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (3.02%) JIRA
2 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.25%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 105 (26.38%) Social Skills
2 56 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 18 (4.52%) Finance
5 17 (4.27%) Legal
6 15 (3.77%) Manufacturing
6 15 (3.77%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.02%) Military
8 3 (0.75%) Banking
9 2 (0.50%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.50%) Police
10 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.25%) Electronics
10 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.25%) Law
10 1 (0.25%) Marketing
10 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.25%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 136 (34.17%) Analyst
2 66 (16.58%) SOC Analyst
3 40 (10.05%) Architect
4 31 (7.79%) Security Engineer
4 31 (7.79%) SIEM Engineer
5 30 (7.54%) Lead
5 30 (7.54%) Network Architect
6 28 (7.04%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 26 (6.53%) Senior
7 26 (6.53%) SOC Engineer
8 25 (6.28%) Consultant
8 25 (6.28%) Security Analyst
9 20 (5.03%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 20 (5.03%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
10 18 (4.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 17 (4.27%) Cyber Defence Analyst
12 14 (3.52%) Security Consultant
13 11 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (2.76%) Security Specialist
13 11 (2.76%) SIEM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.77%) Apache NiFi
1 15 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.01%) Kafka
3 3 (0.75%) Regular Expression
4 2 (0.50%) OAuth
4 2 (0.50%) OpenID
4 2 (0.50%) SAML
5 1 (0.25%) Ajax
5 1 (0.25%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.25%) CSS
5 1 (0.25%) HTML
5 1 (0.25%) JSON
5 1 (0.25%) OLE
5 1 (0.25%) SOAP
5 1 (0.25%) Web Services
5 1 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (22.11%) Cyber Defence
2 86 (21.61%) Cyber Threat
3 84 (21.11%) Management Information System
4 68 (17.09%) Security Operations Centre
5 67 (16.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 26 (6.53%) CSOC
7 21 (5.28%) Distributed Applications
8 14 (3.52%) Security Posture
9 12 (3.02%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (2.26%) Cloud Native
10 9 (2.26%) Operational Technology
10 9 (2.26%) PKI
11 8 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.76%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.51%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.01%) Onboarding
14 4 (1.01%) SCADA
15 3 (0.75%) Cyberattack
15 3 (0.75%) Data Centre
15 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 70 (17.59%) Linux
2 60 (15.08%) Windows
3 21 (5.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (5.03%) Unix
5 14 (3.52%) Windows Server
6 13 (3.27%) Android
6 13 (3.27%) Apple iOS
7 11 (2.76%) Mac OS X
7 11 (2.76%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (57.79%) Cybersecurity
2 140 (35.18%) Incident Response
3 139 (34.92%) Security Operations
4 97 (24.37%) Use Case
5 94 (23.62%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 93 (23.37%) SOAR
7 90 (22.61%) Information Security
8 83 (20.85%) Incident Management
9 79 (19.85%) Threat Intelligence
10 74 (18.59%) Vulnerability Management
11 73 (18.34%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 57 (14.32%) Mentoring
13 55 (13.82%) Analytics
13 55 (13.82%) Protective Monitoring
14 47 (11.81%) Security Architecture
15 42 (10.55%) Root Cause Analysis
16 38 (9.55%) Case Management
17 35 (8.79%) Network Management
18 34 (8.54%) CRM
19 29 (7.29%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 15 (3.77%) PowerShell
2 11 (2.76%) C#
3 8 (2.01%) R
4 7 (1.76%) Java
5 5 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (1.26%) Python
6 3 (0.75%) VBScript
7 2 (0.50%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.25%) Bash
8 1 (0.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 291 (73.12%) Security Cleared
2 214 (53.77%) DV Cleared
3 63 (15.83%) SC Cleared
4 41 (10.30%) Degree
5 27 (6.78%) SANS
6 24 (6.03%) CISSP
7 12 (3.02%) CompTIA Security+
8 11 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.01%) CISM
10 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.75%) CEH
10 3 (0.75%) GIAC
10 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.50%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.50%) CASP
11 2 (0.50%) CCNA
11 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.50%) GCED
11 2 (0.50%) GSEC
12 1 (0.25%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (22.36%) NIST
2 52 (13.07%) NIST 800
3 39 (9.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.77%) Actionable Recommendations
4 15 (3.77%) GDPR
5 11 (2.76%) HIPAA
6 10 (2.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 9 (2.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 7 (1.76%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.26%) NCSC
10 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.50%) COBIT
11 2 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.50%) GRC
12 1 (0.25%) GPG13
12 1 (0.25%) ISA99
System Software
1 22 (5.53%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.26%) iptables
4 7 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.76%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.50%) Docker
5 2 (0.50%) XenApp
6 1 (0.25%) Snort
Systems Management
1 15 (3.77%) Kibana
2 14 (3.52%) logstash
3 8 (2.01%) SCCM
4 7 (1.76%) vCenter Server
5 5 (1.26%) Terraform
6 4 (1.01%) Nessus
6 4 (1.01%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (0.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 3 (0.75%) QRadar
8 2 (0.50%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.50%) Nagios
8 2 (0.50%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.50%) OpenView
9 1 (0.25%) Ansible
9 1 (0.25%) Nmap
9 1 (0.25%) Puppet
9 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 106 (26.63%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.79%) Splunk
3 25 (6.28%) LogRhythm
4 22 (5.53%) Qualys
5 17 (4.27%) Cisco
6 16 (4.02%) Forcepoint
6 16 (4.02%) Varonis
7 14 (3.52%) ArcSight
7 14 (3.52%) Red Hat
8 12 (3.02%) VMware
9 7 (1.76%) Veeam
10 6 (1.51%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (1.26%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.01%) Citrix
12 4 (1.01%) Rapid7
12 4 (1.01%) Sophos
12 4 (1.01%) TippingPoint
13 3 (0.75%) F5
13 3 (0.75%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.75%) Trend Micro