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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 301 371
Rank change year-on-year -11 +70 -76
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 323 412 689
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.93% 1.07% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.11% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 284 325 545
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,750 £48,750 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £69,200
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -6.07% +19.31%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £84,625 £88,449 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% +7.84%

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 31,253 37,089 72,078
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.24% 96.02% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,514 26,211 41,851
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 31 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 15 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.10%) IIS
4 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 150 (46.44%) Azure
2 83 (25.70%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (18.58%) AWS
4 28 (8.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 24 (7.43%) GCP
6 20 (6.19%) Cloud Computing
7 16 (4.95%) Microsoft Purview
8 15 (4.64%) SaaS
9 14 (4.33%) Entra ID
10 13 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.17%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.86%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.55%) IaaS
13 5 (1.55%) PaaS
14 3 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.93%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 3 (0.93%) GitHub
14 3 (0.93%) Route 53
14 3 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 134 (41.49%) Firewall
2 58 (17.96%) Intrusion Detection
3 55 (17.03%) Network Security
4 40 (12.38%) TCP/IP
5 38 (11.76%) WAN
6 37 (11.46%) Internet
7 35 (10.84%) LAN
8 34 (10.53%) DNS
9 24 (7.43%) DKIM
9 24 (7.43%) DMARC
10 20 (6.19%) Wireshark
11 15 (4.64%) SD-WAN
12 12 (3.72%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.86%) DHCP
14 3 (0.93%) Broadband
14 3 (0.93%) SAN
14 3 (0.93%) VLAN
14 3 (0.93%) VPN
14 3 (0.93%) Wireless
15 2 (0.62%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.48%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.55%) BigQuery
2 5 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.55%) Hadoop
2 5 (1.55%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.62%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (2.79%) JIRA
2 7 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.93%) CircleCI
General
1 74 (22.91%) Finance
2 57 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 44 (13.62%) Law
4 33 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (6.50%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.64%) Legal
8 12 (3.72%) Banking
9 10 (3.10%) Retail
10 9 (2.79%) Aerospace
11 7 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.93%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.93%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.62%) Marketing
14 2 (0.62%) Publishing
15 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (37.15%) Analyst
2 83 (25.70%) Security Analyst
3 64 (19.81%) Security Engineer
4 45 (13.93%) Lead
5 41 (12.69%) Information Analyst
5 41 (12.69%) Information Security Analyst
5 41 (12.69%) Senior
6 35 (10.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 34 (10.53%) SOC Analyst
8 25 (7.74%) Team Leader
9 23 (7.12%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 14 (4.33%) Senior Security Engineer
11 13 (4.02%) Operations Engineer
11 13 (4.02%) Security Manager
12 11 (3.41%) Information Security Engineer
12 11 (3.41%) SIEM Engineer
13 10 (3.10%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 9 (2.79%) Data Engineer
14 9 (2.79%) Product Owner
14 9 (2.79%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.24%) Kafka
2 3 (0.93%) Fluent Bit
2 3 (0.93%) OAuth
3 2 (0.62%) LDAP
3 2 (0.62%) OpenID
3 2 (0.62%) SAML
4 1 (0.31%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 58 (17.96%) Management Information System
2 42 (13.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 39 (12.07%) Cyberattack
4 29 (8.98%) Cyber Threat
5 21 (6.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 16 (4.95%) Security Posture
7 13 (4.02%) IoT
8 10 (3.10%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.79%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.79%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.48%) Client/Server
10 8 (2.48%) Cloud Native
10 8 (2.48%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (2.48%) iPad
10 8 (2.48%) Public Cloud
11 7 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.86%) Operational Technology
13 5 (1.55%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 62 (19.20%) Windows
2 33 (10.22%) Linux
3 17 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.02%) Android
4 13 (4.02%) Apple iOS
5 11 (3.41%) Unix
6 9 (2.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (2.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (2.48%) Windows 10
8 6 (1.86%) CentOS
9 4 (1.24%) Solaris
9 4 (1.24%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.24%) zOS
10 3 (0.93%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (65.02%) Cybersecurity
2 127 (39.32%) Security Operations
3 109 (33.75%) Information Security
4 96 (29.72%) Incident Response
5 70 (21.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 69 (21.36%) Cloud Security
7 60 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (15.79%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 39 (12.07%) ITIL
10 37 (11.46%) SOAR
11 32 (9.91%) Identity Access Management
11 32 (9.91%) Kalman Filter
11 32 (9.91%) Security Management
12 31 (9.60%) Zero Trust
13 30 (9.29%) Mentoring
13 30 (9.29%) Threat Intelligence
13 30 (9.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 29 (8.98%) Cryptography
14 29 (8.98%) Security Monitoring
15 27 (8.36%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 36 (11.15%) Python
2 33 (10.22%) PowerShell
3 14 (4.33%) SQL
4 7 (2.17%) Bash
4 7 (2.17%) Java
5 2 (0.62%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 57 (17.65%) CISSP
2 39 (12.07%) Degree
3 29 (8.98%) Security Cleared
4 22 (6.81%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (6.19%) CISM
6 20 (6.19%) SSCP
7 18 (5.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 18 (5.57%) CCSP
7 18 (5.57%) CEH
8 15 (4.64%) CompTIA Security+
8 15 (4.64%) DV Cleared
8 15 (4.64%) SANS
8 15 (4.64%) SC Cleared
9 13 (4.02%) CISA
10 9 (2.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 8 (2.48%) DBS Check
12 6 (1.86%) GIAC
13 5 (1.55%) GCIA
14 4 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (31.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (23.84%) NIST
3 44 (13.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 36 (11.15%) PCI DSS
5 27 (8.36%) NCSC
6 20 (6.19%) GDPR
7 18 (5.57%) SOC 2
8 16 (4.95%) GRC
9 15 (4.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.55%) Data Quality
11 4 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.93%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.93%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.93%) QA
12 3 (0.93%) SLA
13 2 (0.62%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.31%) GxP
14 1 (0.31%) IEC 61508
14 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 36 (11.15%) Active Directory
2 22 (6.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (2.79%) Forefront TMG
4 9 (2.79%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.79%) VMware Workstation
5 7 (2.17%) vSphere
6 6 (1.86%) Docker
6 6 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.31%) Snort
7 1 (0.31%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 31 (9.60%) CASB
2 18 (5.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (5.57%) QRadar
3 13 (4.02%) Nmap
4 12 (3.72%) Terraform
5 11 (3.41%) WSUS
6 9 (2.79%) Kubernetes
6 9 (2.79%) SCOM
7 8 (2.48%) CSIRT
7 8 (2.48%) logstash
7 8 (2.48%) Nessus
8 6 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.93%) Fluentd
10 3 (0.93%) ZENworks
11 2 (0.62%) Ansible
11 2 (0.62%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.31%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.31%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 74 (22.91%) Microsoft
2 63 (19.50%) Splunk
3 28 (8.67%) Qualys
4 26 (8.05%) ServiceNow
5 22 (6.81%) VMware
6 18 (5.57%) IBM
7 15 (4.64%) Rapid7
8 14 (4.33%) Cisco
9 13 (4.02%) Thycotic
10 11 (3.41%) Fortinet
11 10 (3.10%) Meraki
12 8 (2.48%) Google
13 7 (2.17%) Veeam
14 5 (1.55%) LogRhythm
15 4 (1.24%) Darktrace
15 4 (1.24%) Intel
16 3 (0.93%) Aruba
16 3 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
16 3 (0.93%) McAfee
16 3 (0.93%) Sun