SIEM Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 137 172
Rank change year-on-year +33 +35 -36
Contract jobs citing SIEM 20 37 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.90% 1.01% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.10% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 10
10th Percentile £419 £463 £463
25th Percentile £456 £536 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £643 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% -4.81% +23.57%
75th Percentile £856 £775 £803
90th Percentile £925 £820 £839
Central London median daily rate £583 £643 £600
% change year-on-year -9.34% +7.08% +0.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,999 3,351 3,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.37% 91.78% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,247 2,967
10th Percentile £356 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.93 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.25 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +5.49% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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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 24 April 2024.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) Firewall
2 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (25.00%) FTP
3 5 (25.00%) HTTP
3 5 (25.00%) ICMP
3 5 (25.00%) POP3
3 5 (25.00%) SMTP
3 5 (25.00%) SSH
4 3 (15.00%) Network Security
5 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Banking
3 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Analyst
1 5 (25.00%) ArcSight Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Security Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Security Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Information Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Information Security Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) IT Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) IT Security Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.00%) PKI
3 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.00%) CSOC
4 1 (5.00%) Cyberattack
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Unix
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
3 3 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 8 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
2 7 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 5 (25.00%) Threat Detection
5 4 (20.00%) Information Security
5 4 (20.00%) Log Aggregation
6 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (15.00%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
7 2 (10.00%) Database Security
7 2 (10.00%) ERP
7 2 (10.00%) Information Assurance
7 2 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) CISSP
2 5 (25.00%) CISM
3 4 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (10.00%) GCIA
4 2 (10.00%) GCIH
4 2 (10.00%) GIAC
5 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (5.00%) CCSP
5 1 (5.00%) CEH
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (10.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) QRadar
2 5 (25.00%) Kibana
2 5 (25.00%) logstash
3 2 (10.00%) CSIRT
3 2 (10.00%) Nessus
4 1 (5.00%) CASB
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) ArcSight
2 5 (25.00%) Splunk
3 3 (15.00%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (10.00%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) Rapid7
5 1 (5.00%) Netskope
5 1 (5.00%) Zscaler