SIEM Contracts in Central London

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with 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 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 113 135 171
Rank change year-on-year +22 +36 -37
Contract jobs citing SIEM 22 39 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.90% 1.01% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.10% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 28 11
10th Percentile £378 £463 £463
25th Percentile £438 £508 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.32% +5.00% +0.84%
75th Percentile £756 £756 £794
90th Percentile £925 £815 £838
London median daily rate £613 £645 £600
% change year-on-year -4.97% +7.42% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,217 3,532 4,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.53% 91.62% 91.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,570 2,396 3,180
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 41
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £19.36 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in Central London

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM in Central London.

Daily rate trend for SIEM in Central London

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Central London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in Central London

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Central London region 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +28 20 £583 -7.54% 8
West End of London - 1 - -
SIEM
London

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (4.55%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.55%) Mimecast
4 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (40.91%) Firewall
2 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
3 4 (18.18%) FTP
3 4 (18.18%) HTTP
3 4 (18.18%) ICMP
3 4 (18.18%) POP3
3 4 (18.18%) SMTP
3 4 (18.18%) SSH
4 3 (13.64%) Network Security
4 3 (13.64%) SD-WAN
4 3 (13.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
General
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Banking
3 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) ArcSight Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Security Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Security Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) SIEM Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Security Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) IT Security Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Information Officer
5 1 (4.55%) Information Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Security Posture
2 4 (18.18%) PKI
3 3 (13.64%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
4 2 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (4.55%) CSOC
5 1 (4.55%) Cyberattack
5 1 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Unix
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Cloud Security
1 8 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (36.36%) Security Monitoring
2 7 (31.82%) Data Loss Prevention
3 6 (27.27%) Information Security
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (27.27%) Security Operations
4 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (22.73%) Threat Detection
5 4 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (18.18%) Log Aggregation
5 4 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (13.64%) Data Encryption
6 3 (13.64%) Database Security
6 3 (13.64%) Incident Response
6 3 (13.64%) Key Management
6 3 (13.64%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (13.64%) Security Auditing
6 3 (13.64%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) CISSP
2 5 (22.73%) CISM
3 4 (18.18%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (13.64%) Degree
4 3 (13.64%) GIAC
5 2 (9.09%) GCIA
5 2 (9.09%) GCIH
6 1 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (4.55%) CCSP
6 1 (4.55%) CEH
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (9.09%) NIST
4 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) QRadar
2 4 (18.18%) Kibana
2 4 (18.18%) logstash
3 2 (9.09%) CASB
3 2 (9.09%) CSIRT
3 2 (9.09%) Nessus
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) ArcSight
2 4 (18.18%) Splunk
3 3 (13.64%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (9.09%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) Rapid7
5 1 (4.55%) Netskope
5 1 (4.55%) Zscaler