SIEM Jobs with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 319 354
Rank change year-on-year +11 +35 -69
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 325 409 667
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.96% 0.99% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.03% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 291 314 532
10th Percentile £42,547 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,063 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £63,466 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.36% - +8.33%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,857 39,858 66,375
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.38% 96.10% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,439 27,686 41,025
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SIEM salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SIEM
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SIEM over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

SIEM salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 17 (5.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.69%) IIS
3 9 (2.77%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 150 (46.15%) Azure
2 82 (25.23%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (19.08%) AWS
4 28 (8.62%) Azure Sentinel
5 24 (7.38%) GCP
6 20 (6.15%) Cloud Computing
7 16 (4.92%) SaaS
8 15 (4.62%) Microsoft Purview
9 14 (4.31%) Entra ID
10 13 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.15%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.85%) IaaS
13 5 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.54%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.54%) PaaS
14 3 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 3 (0.92%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (0.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 134 (41.23%) Firewall
2 54 (16.62%) Network Security
3 53 (16.31%) Intrusion Detection
4 41 (12.62%) TCP/IP
5 40 (12.31%) WAN
6 39 (12.00%) Internet
7 35 (10.77%) LAN
8 33 (10.15%) DNS
9 24 (7.38%) DKIM
9 24 (7.38%) DMARC
10 20 (6.15%) Wireshark
11 16 (4.92%) SD-WAN
12 12 (3.69%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.85%) DHCP
14 4 (1.23%) VLAN
14 4 (1.23%) Wireless
15 3 (0.92%) Broadband
15 3 (0.92%) VPN
16 2 (0.62%) Ethernet
16 2 (0.62%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.08%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.54%) BigQuery
2 5 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.54%) Hadoop
2 5 (1.54%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.62%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (2.77%) JIRA
2 7 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.92%) CircleCI
General
1 75 (23.08%) Finance
2 53 (16.31%) Social Skills
3 43 (13.23%) Law
4 37 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.31%) Legal
8 12 (3.69%) Banking
9 10 (3.08%) Aerospace
9 10 (3.08%) Retail
10 7 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.62%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.62%) Marketing
13 2 (0.62%) Publishing
14 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (39.08%) Analyst
2 91 (28.00%) Security Analyst
3 60 (18.46%) Security Engineer
4 44 (13.54%) Senior
5 43 (13.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 43 (13.23%) Lead
6 40 (12.31%) Information Analyst
6 40 (12.31%) Information Security Analyst
7 32 (9.85%) SOC Analyst
8 24 (7.38%) Team Leader
9 22 (6.77%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 15 (4.62%) Operations Engineer
11 14 (4.31%) Security Manager
11 14 (4.31%) Senior Security Engineer
12 12 (3.69%) SIEM Engineer
13 11 (3.38%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 11 (3.38%) Information Security Engineer
13 11 (3.38%) SIEM Analyst
14 10 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.23%) Kafka
2 3 (0.92%) Fluent Bit
2 3 (0.92%) OAuth
3 2 (0.62%) OpenID
3 2 (0.62%) SAML
4 1 (0.31%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.23%) Management Information System
2 44 (13.54%) Security Operations Centre
3 39 (12.00%) Cyberattack
4 34 (10.46%) Cyber Threat
5 19 (5.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 19 (5.85%) Security Posture
6 15 (4.62%) IoT
7 11 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (3.38%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.77%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.77%) Operational Technology
8 9 (2.77%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.46%) Client/Server
9 8 (2.46%) Cyber Defence
9 8 (2.46%) iPad
10 7 (2.15%) Cloud Native
10 7 (2.15%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.85%) Cyber Security Posture
11 6 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 68 (20.92%) Windows
2 34 (10.46%) Linux
3 19 (5.85%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.00%) Android
4 13 (4.00%) Apple iOS
4 13 (4.00%) Unix
5 9 (2.77%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (2.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.23%) CentOS
6 4 (1.23%) Solaris
6 4 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.23%) zOS
7 3 (0.92%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (66.15%) Cybersecurity
2 134 (41.23%) Security Operations
3 105 (32.31%) Information Security
4 99 (30.46%) Incident Response
5 73 (22.46%) Vulnerability Management
6 69 (21.23%) Cloud Security
7 55 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (16.62%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 42 (12.92%) ITIL
10 37 (11.38%) SOAR
11 34 (10.46%) Kalman Filter
12 33 (10.15%) Security Management
13 32 (9.85%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 31 (9.54%) Threat Intelligence
14 31 (9.54%) Zero Trust
15 30 (9.23%) Mentoring
16 29 (8.92%) Identity Access Management
16 29 (8.92%) Security Monitoring
17 28 (8.62%) Vulnerability Remediation
18 27 (8.31%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 33 (10.15%) PowerShell
2 32 (9.85%) Python
3 15 (4.62%) SQL
4 8 (2.46%) Bash
5 5 (1.54%) Java
6 2 (0.62%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 54 (16.62%) CISSP
2 36 (11.08%) Degree
3 30 (9.23%) Security Cleared
4 27 (8.31%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (6.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 22 (6.77%) CCSP
6 20 (6.15%) SSCP
7 19 (5.85%) CEH
8 18 (5.54%) CompTIA Security+
9 17 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (4.92%) SANS
10 16 (4.92%) SC Cleared
11 15 (4.62%) DV Cleared
12 14 (4.31%) CISM
13 10 (3.08%) CISA
14 8 (2.46%) DBS Check
15 7 (2.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 6 (1.85%) CompTIA CySA+
16 6 (1.85%) GIAC
16 6 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (31.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (23.69%) NIST
3 44 (13.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 35 (10.77%) PCI DSS
5 26 (8.00%) NCSC
6 20 (6.15%) GDPR
6 20 (6.15%) SOC 2
7 15 (4.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 14 (4.31%) GRC
9 5 (1.54%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (1.23%) SLA
11 3 (0.92%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.92%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.92%) QA
12 2 (0.62%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.31%) GxP
13 1 (0.31%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 37 (11.38%) Active Directory
2 24 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (2.77%) Forefront TMG
4 9 (2.77%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.77%) VMware Workstation
5 7 (2.15%) vSphere
6 6 (1.85%) Docker
6 6 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.31%) Snort
7 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.31%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 31 (9.54%) CASB
2 22 (6.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (5.23%) QRadar
4 13 (4.00%) Nmap
5 12 (3.69%) Terraform
5 12 (3.69%) WSUS
6 9 (2.77%) SCOM
7 8 (2.46%) CSIRT
7 8 (2.46%) Kubernetes
7 8 (2.46%) logstash
7 8 (2.46%) Nessus
8 6 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.92%) Fluentd
9 3 (0.92%) ZENworks
10 2 (0.62%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.31%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.31%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 77 (23.69%) Microsoft
2 63 (19.38%) Splunk
3 30 (9.23%) Qualys
4 24 (7.38%) VMware
5 23 (7.08%) ServiceNow
6 17 (5.23%) IBM
7 16 (4.92%) Cisco
8 15 (4.62%) Rapid7
9 13 (4.00%) Thycotic
10 11 (3.38%) Fortinet
10 11 (3.38%) Meraki
11 8 (2.46%) Google
11 8 (2.46%) Veeam
12 5 (1.54%) LogRhythm
13 4 (1.23%) Citrix
13 4 (1.23%) Darktrace
13 4 (1.23%) Intel
13 4 (1.23%) Sun
14 3 (0.92%) Forcepoint
14 3 (0.92%) Juniper