SIEM Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring SIEM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SIEM over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 103 125
Rank change year-on-year +9 +22 +46
Contract jobs citing SIEM 22 21 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.26% 0.97% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.07% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 28
10th Percentile £450 £419 £463
25th Percentile £475 £456 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £630
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -10.32% -14.29%
75th Percentile £726 £756 £775
90th Percentile £769 £925 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £545 £630
% change year-on-year +5.50% -13.49% -5.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

SIEM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,635 1,957 3,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.59% 90.48% 91.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 1,378 2,168
10th Percentile £353 £350 £354
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £564 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.50% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £14.75
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SIEM in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) GitHub
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (9.09%) AWS KMS
4 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
4 2 (9.09%) Serverless
5 1 (4.55%) Datadog
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) Firewall
2 4 (18.18%) Network Security
3 3 (13.64%) SMTP
3 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
3 3 (13.64%) VPN
4 2 (9.09%) DNS
4 2 (9.09%) FTP
4 2 (9.09%) HTTP
4 2 (9.09%) SSL
5 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
5 1 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (4.55%) VLAN
5 1 (4.55%) WAN
5 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Big Data
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Banking
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.55%) Military
5 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Security Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Architect
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Security Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Security Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Security Technical Architect
3 2 (9.09%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Technical Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Technical Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Technical Services Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (4.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) Ajax
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) SailPoint
2 1 (4.55%) SOAP
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
2 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
2 3 (13.64%) Security Posture
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) CSOC
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) CMDB
4 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Security Operations
2 8 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (36.36%) Incident Response
3 7 (31.82%) DevOps
4 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 5 (22.73%) SOAR
4 5 (22.73%) Threat Detection
5 4 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 4 (18.18%) Microservices
5 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Project Management
5 4 (18.18%) Security Architecture
5 4 (18.18%) Threat Intelligence
5 4 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (13.64%) Agile
6 3 (13.64%) Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (13.64%) Use Case
6 3 (13.64%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 2 (9.09%) CISSP
3 1 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (4.55%) CASP
3 1 (4.55%) CCSP
3 1 (4.55%) CISA
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) CISM
3 1 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.55%) GCIA
3 1 (4.55%) GCIH
3 1 (4.55%) GIAC
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (18.18%) NIST
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (4.55%) NIST 800
3 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) PingFederate
2 1 (4.55%) QRadar
2 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Splunk
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Planview
3 2 (9.09%) Rapid7
3 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco
4 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) LogRhythm
4 1 (4.55%) Okta
4 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.55%) Ping Identity
4 1 (4.55%) Tenable