SIEM Engineer Contracts in England

SIEM Engineer
UK > England

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in England is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 605 755
Rank change year-on-year +105 +150 -122
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 50 31 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.066% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.070% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 26 22
10th Percentile £524 - -
25th Percentile £550 £470 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £601 £313
Median % change year-on-year +33.06% +92.40% -40.48%
75th Percentile £825 £669 £578
90th Percentile £850 £694 £831
UK median daily rate £800 £601 £313
% change year-on-year +33.06% +92.40% -40.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SIEM Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in England

SIEM Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM Engineer in England

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM Engineer in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM Engineer in England

SIEM Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
London +102 29 £800 +23.08% 3
West Midlands +28 13 £550 -
Midlands +27 13 £550 -
South West - 4 £800 - 1
Yorkshire +15 2 £800 +18.52%
North of England +10 2 £800 +34.45%
South East +6 1 £625 +32.98%
SIEM Engineer
UK

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 June 2024, SIEM Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) SIEM
2 33 (66.00%) Elasticsearch
3 28 (56.00%) Security Cleared
4 26 (52.00%) DV Cleared
5 17 (34.00%) Observability
6 15 (30.00%) Kibana
6 15 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (30.00%) logstash
7 14 (28.00%) Linux
8 12 (24.00%) Windows
8 12 (24.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 12 (24.00%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (22.00%) Splunk
10 10 (20.00%) Ubuntu
11 9 (18.00%) Active Directory
11 9 (18.00%) Visualisation
11 9 (18.00%) iptables
11 9 (18.00%) RBAC
12 8 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (16.00%) DataOps
12 8 (16.00%) R
12 8 (16.00%) CISSP
13 7 (14.00%) Cybersecurity
14 5 (10.00%) Incident Response
14 5 (10.00%) ArcSight
14 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
14 5 (10.00%) Finance
15 4 (8.00%) Firewall
15 4 (8.00%) Banking
15 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) Firewall
2 3 (6.00%) FTP
2 3 (6.00%) HTTP
2 3 (6.00%) ICMP
2 3 (6.00%) POP3
2 3 (6.00%) SMTP
2 3 (6.00%) SSH
2 3 (6.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.00%) BGP
3 1 (2.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (2.00%) Network Security
3 1 (2.00%) OSPF
3 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (66.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 5 (10.00%) Finance
2 4 (8.00%) Banking
3 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.00%) Military
5 1 (2.00%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (6.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.00%) CSOC
4 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.00%) Linux
2 12 (24.00%) Windows
3 10 (20.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (6.00%) Unix
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) SIEM
2 17 (34.00%) Observability
3 12 (24.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 9 (18.00%) RBAC
4 9 (18.00%) Visualisation
5 8 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (16.00%) DataOps
6 7 (14.00%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (10.00%) Incident Response
8 3 (6.00%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (6.00%) Mentoring
8 3 (6.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 3 (6.00%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (6.00%) Security Monitoring
8 3 (6.00%) Use Case
9 2 (4.00%) Incident Management
9 2 (4.00%) Information Security
9 2 (4.00%) Security Operations
9 2 (4.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.00%) R
2 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.00%) Bash
3 1 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (52.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (16.00%) CISSP
4 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (18.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 15 (30.00%) Kibana
1 15 (30.00%) logstash
2 3 (6.00%) QRadar
3 2 (4.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Splunk
2 5 (10.00%) ArcSight
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (2.00%) AlgoSec
4 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.00%) Cisco
4 1 (2.00%) FireEye
4 1 (2.00%) McAfee
4 1 (2.00%) Okta
4 1 (2.00%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds