SIEM Contracts in Edinburgh

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 63 103
Rank change year-on-year +4 +40 +5
Contract jobs citing SIEM 8 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.28% 1.10% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.25% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 6
10th Percentile £464 - £389
25th Percentile £466 £508 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% -6.36% -12.00%
75th Percentile £516 £538 £625
90th Percentile £521 - £688
Scotland median daily rate £500 £520 £575
% change year-on-year -3.85% -9.57% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in Edinburgh

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (12.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) CloudFront
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Retail Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 2 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Architect
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Security Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
1 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
1 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Measurement
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Identification
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Event Correlation
3 1 (12.50%) Fintech
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CEH
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) GCFA
2 1 (12.50%) GCIH
2 1 (12.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) HAProxy
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) linkerd
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 1 (12.50%) ForgeRock
3 1 (12.50%) VMware