The first table below looks at the demand for SIEM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SIEM over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Rank 131 124 123
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -1
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 16 8 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.615% 0.379% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.784% 0.480% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 1
Average salary £35,000 £47,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.31% +46.15%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +35.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2042 1666 1324
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 78.54% 78.88% 73.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1611 1428 1133
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SIEM
West Yorkshire

SIEM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SIEM across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Leeds SIEM Jobs Demand Trend

SIEM
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SIEM across the Leeds region.

Leeds SIEM Salary Trend

SIEM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SIEM across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Leeds SIEM Salary Histogram

SIEM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region citing SIEM also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited SIEM.

1 15 (65.22%) Firewall
2 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
3 11 (47.83%) Information Security
3 11 (47.83%) Windows
4 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
5 9 (39.13%) Degree
6 8 (34.78%) GCIH
7 7 (30.43%) ITIL
7 7 (30.43%) UNIX
7 7 (30.43%) CEH
8 6 (26.09%) ArcSight
9 5 (21.74%) Service Management
9 5 (21.74%) SSCP
10 4 (17.39%) Data Security
10 4 (17.39%) Project Management
10 4 (17.39%) VMware
10 4 (17.39%) Subversion
10 4 (17.39%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (17.39%) Puppet
10 4 (17.39%) Git (software)
10 4 (17.39%) OSSEC
10 4 (17.39%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (13.04%) Nessus
11 3 (13.04%) Change Control
11 3 (13.04%) Juniper
11 3 (13.04%) CheckPoint
11 3 (13.04%) Linux
11 3 (13.04%) GIAC
11 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
12 2 (8.696%) CISSP

SIEM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region citing SIEM also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited SIEM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (8.696%) HTML
2 1 (4.348%) .NET
2 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.348%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.348%) Apache
1 1 (4.348%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.348%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (65.22%) Firewall
2 4 (17.39%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (8.696%) Wireless
3 2 (8.696%) Network Security
4 1 (4.348%) Wireshark
4 1 (4.348%) LAN
4 1 (4.348%) WAN
4 1 (4.348%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.348%) HTTPS
4 1 (4.348%) SSL
4 1 (4.348%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Subversion
1 4 (17.39%) Git (software)
2 1 (4.348%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.348%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 1 (4.348%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Analyst
2 10 (43.48%) Security Analyst
3 6 (26.09%) Team Leader
4 4 (17.39%) IT Security Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Business Analyst
5 3 (13.04%) Support Analyst
6 2 (8.696%) Applications Support
6 2 (8.696%) Junior
6 2 (8.696%) Junior Analyst
6 2 (8.696%) Operations Team Leader
6 2 (8.696%) Security Operations Analyst
6 2 (8.696%) Technical Team Leader
6 2 (8.696%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (8.696%) IT Operations Analyst
6 2 (8.696%) Applications Support Analyst
7 1 (4.348%) Security Engineer
7 1 (4.348%) Network Engineer
7 1 (4.348%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (4.348%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (4.348%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.696%) Cryptography
3 1 (4.348%) PKI
3 1 (4.348%) Mathematics
3 1 (4.348%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Windows
2 7 (30.43%) UNIX
3 3 (13.04%) Linux
4 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (4.348%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Information Security
2 7 (30.43%) ITIL
3 5 (21.74%) Service Management
4 4 (17.39%) Project Management
4 4 (17.39%) Data Security
5 3 (13.04%) Change Control
6 2 (8.696%) Analytics
6 2 (8.696%) ISMS
6 2 (8.696%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 1 (4.348%) Problem Management
7 1 (4.348%) Computer Security
7 1 (4.348%) Service Delivery
7 1 (4.348%) Change Management
7 1 (4.348%) ETL
7 1 (4.348%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.696%) JavaScript
1 2 (8.696%) Perl
1 2 (8.696%) Python
2 1 (4.348%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.348%) C#
2 1 (4.348%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 9 (39.13%) Degree
4 8 (34.78%) GCIH
5 7 (30.43%) CEH
6 5 (21.74%) SSCP
7 4 (17.39%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (13.04%) GIAC
9 2 (8.696%) GCFA
9 2 (8.696%) PhD
9 2 (8.696%) CISSP
9 2 (8.696%) GCED
10 1 (4.348%) CISM
10 1 (4.348%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.696%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (4.348%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.348%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) OSSEC
1 4 (17.39%) Puppet
2 3 (13.04%) Nessus
3 1 (4.348%) OpenView
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) ArcSight
2 4 (17.39%) VMware
3 3 (13.04%) Juniper
3 3 (13.04%) CheckPoint
4 2 (8.696%) CA
4 2 (8.696%) Cisco
4 2 (8.696%) HP
4 2 (8.696%) LogLogic
4 2 (8.696%) Q1 Labs
5 1 (4.348%) Talend
5 1 (4.348%) Blue Coat
5 1 (4.348%) Tripwire
5 1 (4.348%) F5
5 1 (4.348%) EMC
5 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.348%) Novell
5 1 (4.348%) Symantec
Leeds, West Yorkshire
The Junior IT Security Analyst role includes monitoring and analysing Intrusion detection systems, firewall event logs and SIEM Security Incident and Event Management logs... Requirements: Experience in operational...
Alderbridge Network Recruitment
Salary: From £19,000 to £25,000 per annum + shift allowance+ benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
E-Commerce environment. An understanding of project management methodologies, processes and practices... Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent... Application Firewalls (WAF), incident reporting, monitoring and alerting... Solutions...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Competivite Salary - Negoitbale on application
Posted: 17 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Maintaining, managing and updating the analytics cluster and SIEM (Security Incident Event Management) toolset... Working knowledge of web technologies, HTML and JavaScript. Knowledge of supporting SIEM technologies such...
Alderbridge Network Recruitment
Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Experience in defining new workflows for automated infrastructure builds and software deployments (build orchestration) and helping to deliver IS business process / culture change (puppet, VMWare, Git/SVN, OSSec)...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: Excellent Basic with Benefits
Posted: 7 May 2013