SIEM Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 165 287
Rank change year-on-year -49 +122 -12
Contract jobs citing SIEM 142 389 395
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.94% 1.54% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.72% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 263 276
10th Percentile £425 £451 £381
25th Percentile £500 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £744 £738 £688
90th Percentile £825 £813 £769
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,241 22,603 40,082
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.03% 89.73% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,876 15,973 29,084
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 519 538
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £14.18
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +50.28% +44.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.60
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

SIEM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SIEM trend for jobs with a WFH option

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SIEM.

SIEM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SIEM over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

SIEM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SIEM
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SIEM.

SIEM hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (3.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) IBM Notes
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (16.20%) Azure
2 16 (11.27%) AWS
3 7 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (4.93%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (4.23%) AWS CloudTrail
4 6 (4.23%) GCP
5 5 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (2.11%) Serverless
8 2 (1.41%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.41%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (1.41%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.41%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.41%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.41%) IaaS
8 2 (1.41%) SaaS
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (26.76%) Firewall
2 16 (11.27%) Network Security
3 12 (8.45%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.34%) Intrusion Detection
5 7 (4.93%) Wireshark
6 6 (4.23%) VPN
7 5 (3.52%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (3.52%) DNS
8 4 (2.82%) DHCP
8 4 (2.82%) LAN
8 4 (2.82%) tcpdump
8 4 (2.82%) VLAN
8 4 (2.82%) WAN
9 3 (2.11%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (1.41%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (1.41%) SNMP
11 1 (0.70%) HTTP
11 1 (0.70%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.70%) SMTP
11 1 (0.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.75%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.82%) Apache Hive
2 4 (2.82%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.82%) Tableau
3 3 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.41%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.63%) JIRA
2 4 (2.82%) IDA Disassembler
3 3 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.41%) Git
General
1 25 (17.61%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.15%) Finance
4 12 (8.45%) Manufacturing
5 9 (6.34%) Banking
5 9 (6.34%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.82%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.70%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.70%) Legal
8 1 (0.70%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (21.83%) Analyst
2 24 (16.90%) Security Engineer
3 17 (11.97%) Architect
4 16 (11.27%) SOC Analyst
5 15 (10.56%) Senior
6 14 (9.86%) Security Analyst
7 13 (9.15%) SIEM Engineer
8 11 (7.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 11 (7.75%) Security Specialist
9 9 (6.34%) Security Architect
9 9 (6.34%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (5.63%) IT Security Specialist
10 8 (5.63%) Lead
10 8 (5.63%) Security Operations Specialist
10 8 (5.63%) Senior Security Analyst
10 8 (5.63%) SOC Engineer
11 7 (4.93%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
12 6 (4.23%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) Security Manager
12 6 (4.23%) SIEM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (2.82%) OLE
2 3 (2.11%) JSON
2 3 (2.11%) Regular Expression
2 3 (2.11%) XML
3 2 (1.41%) Ajax
3 2 (1.41%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.41%) AWS SAM
3 2 (1.41%) CSS
3 2 (1.41%) HTML
3 2 (1.41%) SOAP
3 2 (1.41%) Web Services
4 1 (0.70%) EDI
4 1 (0.70%) OAuth
4 1 (0.70%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.70%) RESTful
4 1 (0.70%) SAML
4 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.42%) Management Information System
2 16 (11.27%) Security Operations Centre
3 12 (8.45%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (7.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 10 (7.04%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.52%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.52%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.82%) YARA
8 3 (2.11%) CSOC
8 3 (2.11%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.11%) Cyberattack
8 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.41%) CMDB
9 2 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.41%) PKI
9 2 (1.41%) PMI
10 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.68%) Windows
2 17 (11.97%) Linux
3 6 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.41%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.41%) Unix
5 1 (0.70%) CentOS
5 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.70%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.70%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (40.85%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (34.51%) Incident Response
3 47 (33.10%) Security Operations
4 43 (30.28%) Vulnerability Management
5 37 (26.06%) Use Case
6 24 (16.90%) Information Security
7 23 (16.20%) Data Loss Prevention
8 22 (15.49%) Security Architecture
9 19 (13.38%) Data Security
9 19 (13.38%) Penetration Testing
10 17 (11.97%) Incident Management
10 17 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (11.27%) Threat Detection
12 15 (10.56%) Roadmaps
13 14 (9.86%) Cloud Security
13 14 (9.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 13 (9.15%) Mentoring
14 13 (9.15%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 13 (9.15%) Observability
14 13 (9.15%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.63%) Python
2 6 (4.23%) Bash
3 5 (3.52%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.52%) SQL
4 4 (2.82%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.41%) Go
7 1 (0.70%) C#
7 1 (0.70%) Ruby
7 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (34.51%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.49%) DV Cleared
2 22 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.56%) CISSP
4 11 (7.75%) CISM
5 9 (6.34%) Degree
6 8 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (4.23%) CCNA
7 6 (4.23%) CEH
7 6 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (4.23%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (4.23%) PMP
8 4 (2.82%) APMP
8 4 (2.82%) SANS
9 2 (1.41%) CCSP
9 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.41%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (1.41%) RHCE
10 1 (0.70%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (26.76%) NIST
2 21 (14.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.23%) GDPR
4 5 (3.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (3.52%) NCSC
5 4 (2.82%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.11%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.70%) GLBA
8 1 (0.70%) ISAE 3402
8 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (9.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.52%) Snort
3 4 (2.82%) Docker
4 2 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (6.34%) Terraform
2 6 (4.23%) QRadar
3 5 (3.52%) Ansible
3 5 (3.52%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.82%) Kibana
4 4 (2.82%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (2.11%) Grafana
5 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.11%) Nessus
6 2 (1.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (1.41%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.41%) Nagios
6 2 (1.41%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.41%) OpenView
6 2 (1.41%) Puppet
6 2 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.70%) CASB
7 1 (0.70%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (29.58%) Microsoft
2 30 (21.13%) LogRhythm
3 20 (14.08%) Splunk
4 19 (13.38%) Qualys
5 16 (11.27%) Forcepoint
5 16 (11.27%) Varonis
6 14 (9.86%) Cisco
7 9 (6.34%) Google
8 7 (4.93%) ArcSight
9 4 (2.82%) AlienVault
9 4 (2.82%) Rapid7
9 4 (2.82%) Sophos
10 3 (2.11%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.41%) Carbon Black
11 2 (1.41%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.41%) Citrix
11 2 (1.41%) Oracle
11 2 (1.41%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.41%) Symantec
11 2 (1.41%) VMware