Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SIEM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SIEM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 242 366
Rank change year-on-year -83 +124 -39
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 859 1,586 1,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 1.52% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.58% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 699 745 991
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% - +11.12%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,750 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £59,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.77% +8.64% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

SIEM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the UK

SIEM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SIEM.

Salary trend for SIEM in the UK

SIEM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SIEM in the UK

SIEM
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -32 789 £63,466 -2.36% 182
UK excluding London -134 498 £57,500 -3.77% 107
London +59 339 £69,500 +6.92% 84
Work from Home +16 331 £60,000 -7.69% 84
North of England +9 146 £55,750 +1.36% 27
South East -56 142 £57,500 - 34
South West -22 77 £72,500 +3.57% 19
Yorkshire +91 64 £61,250 +25.00% 12
North West -50 59 £47,000 -20.34% 14
Midlands -105 42 £52,500 -12.50% 9
East of England -7 37 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Scotland -165 30 £47,000 -32.86% 7
West Midlands -54 25 £46,000 -31.85% 7
North East +18 23 £42,500 -37.04% 1
East Midlands -58 17 £52,500 +10.53% 2
Wales -24 16 £58,750 +6.82% 6
Northern Ireland +23 6 £90,000 +75.61% 1
Isle of Man -18 1 - -
Channel Islands - 1 - -

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 33 (3.84%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.75%) IIS
4 3 (0.35%) CMS
5 2 (0.23%) Apache
5 2 (0.23%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.12%) Confluence
6 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 302 (35.16%) Azure
2 158 (18.39%) Microsoft 365
3 137 (15.95%) AWS
4 84 (9.78%) Azure Sentinel
5 39 (4.54%) Cloud Computing
6 37 (4.31%) Entra ID
7 36 (4.19%) SaaS
8 26 (3.03%) GCP
9 23 (2.68%) Microsoft Purview
10 20 (2.33%) IaaS
10 20 (2.33%) PaaS
11 14 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.16%) Power Platform
13 8 (0.93%) Azure AKS
14 7 (0.81%) Amazon S3
14 7 (0.81%) GitHub
15 6 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 6 (0.70%) Twilio
15 6 (0.70%) WhatsApp
16 5 (0.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 320 (37.25%) Firewall
2 139 (16.18%) Network Security
3 107 (12.46%) Intrusion Detection
4 70 (8.15%) TCP/IP
5 66 (7.68%) WAN
6 60 (6.98%) LAN
7 55 (6.40%) DNS
8 53 (6.17%) Internet
9 35 (4.07%) VPN
10 31 (3.61%) DKIM
10 31 (3.61%) DMARC
11 26 (3.03%) Wireshark
12 24 (2.79%) SD-WAN
12 24 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
13 20 (2.33%) Wireless
14 16 (1.86%) DHCP
15 11 (1.28%) VLAN
16 10 (1.16%) WLAN
17 9 (1.05%) BGP
17 9 (1.05%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.10%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.05%) Power BI
3 6 (0.70%) Hadoop
4 5 (0.58%) BigQuery
4 5 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.35%) Redis
7 2 (0.23%) Big Data
8 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (1.63%) Jenkins
2 11 (1.28%) JIRA
3 3 (0.35%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.12%) Git
4 1 (0.12%) GitLab
4 1 (0.12%) Snyk
General
1 195 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 169 (19.67%) Finance
3 122 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (7.10%) Law
5 54 (6.29%) Banking
6 37 (4.31%) Military
7 36 (4.19%) Games
7 36 (4.19%) Public Sector
8 34 (3.96%) Legal
9 25 (2.91%) Aerospace
10 24 (2.79%) Retail
11 23 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.51%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.16%) Marketing
14 9 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.58%) Police
18 3 (0.35%) Advertising
18 3 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 356 (41.44%) Analyst
2 236 (27.47%) Security Analyst
3 143 (16.65%) Senior
4 122 (14.20%) Security Engineer
5 112 (13.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 88 (10.24%) SOC Analyst
7 84 (9.78%) Lead
8 76 (8.85%) Senior Analyst
9 69 (8.03%) Architect
10 67 (7.80%) Consultant
11 60 (6.98%) Security Consultant
12 57 (6.64%) Information Analyst
12 57 (6.64%) Information Security Analyst
13 51 (5.94%) IT Analyst
13 51 (5.94%) IT Security Analyst
14 46 (5.36%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 46 (5.36%) Senior Security Analyst
15 39 (4.54%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 36 (4.19%) Security Architect
17 35 (4.07%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (1.51%) Fluent Bit
3 5 (0.58%) REST
4 4 (0.47%) Kafka
5 3 (0.35%) .NET
5 3 (0.35%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.35%) LDAP
5 3 (0.35%) Next.js
5 3 (0.35%) Node.js
5 3 (0.35%) React
5 3 (0.35%) RESTful
5 3 (0.35%) Web Services
5 3 (0.35%) web3js
6 2 (0.23%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.23%) EDI
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.23%) OAuth
6 2 (0.23%) Sass
7 1 (0.12%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.12%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 157 (18.28%) Security Operations Centre
2 125 (14.55%) Management Information System
3 113 (13.15%) Cyber Threat
4 81 (9.43%) Cyberattack
5 57 (6.64%) Security Posture
6 56 (6.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 55 (6.40%) Cyber Defence
8 28 (3.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 27 (3.14%) Data Centre
10 25 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 21 (2.44%) IoT
11 21 (2.44%) Onboarding
11 21 (2.44%) Operational Technology
11 21 (2.44%) PKI
12 19 (2.21%) Client/Server
12 19 (2.21%) Cyber Security Posture
13 17 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.40%) Cloud Native
15 10 (1.16%) SCADA
16 9 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 176 (20.49%) Windows
2 96 (11.18%) Linux
3 63 (7.33%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.86%) Android
4 16 (1.86%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.51%) Unix
5 13 (1.51%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.70%) Mac OS X
10 5 (0.58%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.47%) CentOS
11 4 (0.47%) Solaris
11 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.47%) zOS
12 3 (0.35%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (71.83%) Cybersecurity
2 331 (38.53%) Security Operations
3 253 (29.45%) Incident Response
3 253 (29.45%) Information Security
4 215 (25.03%) Vulnerability Management
5 153 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
6 126 (14.67%) Cloud Security
7 103 (11.99%) Incident Management
8 102 (11.87%) SOAR
9 96 (11.18%) Threat Intelligence
10 88 (10.24%) Identity Access Management
10 88 (10.24%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 85 (9.90%) Security Architecture
12 82 (9.55%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 80 (9.31%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 80 (9.31%) Data Loss Prevention
13 80 (9.31%) ITIL
14 79 (9.20%) Kalman Filter
15 74 (8.61%) Penetration Testing
16 66 (7.68%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 97 (11.29%) Python
2 84 (9.78%) PowerShell
3 42 (4.89%) Bash
3 42 (4.89%) SQL
4 14 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (0.70%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.58%) Java
7 3 (0.35%) C#
7 3 (0.35%) VBScript
8 1 (0.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 229 (26.66%) Security Cleared
2 192 (22.35%) CISSP
3 130 (15.13%) Degree
4 108 (12.57%) SC Cleared
5 105 (12.22%) DV Cleared
6 67 (7.80%) CompTIA Security+
7 57 (6.64%) Cisco Certification
8 51 (5.94%) CISM
9 46 (5.36%) CCSP
9 46 (5.36%) CEH
10 41 (4.77%) CISA
11 40 (4.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 40 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 35 (4.07%) CompTIA CySA+
13 31 (3.61%) Master's Degree
14 30 (3.49%) SANS
15 24 (2.79%) SSCP
16 23 (2.68%) Azure Certification
17 22 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
18 21 (2.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (23.05%) NIST
2 186 (21.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 70 (8.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 67 (7.80%) PCI DSS
5 46 (5.36%) GDPR
6 41 (4.77%) NCSC
7 38 (4.42%) SOC 2
8 21 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 21 (2.44%) GRC
9 18 (2.10%) NIST 800
10 14 (1.63%) HIPAA
11 13 (1.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 9 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.70%) QA
14 5 (0.58%) Data Quality
14 5 (0.58%) SLA
15 4 (0.47%) COBIT
16 3 (0.35%) HMG Infosec
16 3 (0.35%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.35%) RMADS
System Software
1 83 (9.66%) Active Directory
2 33 (3.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (3.73%) vSphere
4 27 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (1.28%) VMware Workstation
7 10 (1.16%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.05%) Forefront TMG
9 8 (0.93%) Docker
10 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.23%) XenApp
12 1 (0.12%) Snort
12 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 58 (6.75%) CASB
2 33 (3.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (3.49%) QRadar
4 21 (2.44%) CSIRT
5 18 (2.10%) logstash
6 17 (1.98%) Kubernetes
6 17 (1.98%) Nessus
7 15 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (1.63%) Nmap
8 14 (1.63%) Terraform
9 13 (1.51%) Fluentd
9 13 (1.51%) WSUS
10 10 (1.16%) Ansible
11 9 (1.05%) SCOM
12 4 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.47%) SCCM
13 3 (0.35%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.35%) Suricata
13 3 (0.35%) ZENworks
14 2 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 219 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 134 (15.60%) Splunk
3 43 (5.01%) Cisco
4 34 (3.96%) Qualys
4 34 (3.96%) VMware
5 33 (3.84%) SolarWinds
6 32 (3.73%) Rapid7
7 29 (3.38%) Juniper
8 26 (3.03%) Tanium
8 26 (3.03%) Tripwire
9 24 (2.79%) ServiceNow
10 20 (2.33%) IBM
11 18 (2.10%) McAfee
12 17 (1.98%) ArcSight
13 15 (1.75%) CheckPoint
14 14 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
14 14 (1.63%) Palo Alto
14 14 (1.63%) Thycotic
15 13 (1.51%) Citrix
15 13 (1.51%) Darktrace