SIEM Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SIEM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SIEM over the 3 months to 22 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) UK / England
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	350	369	402
Rank change year-on-year	+19	+33
Contract jobs citing SIEM	260	284	227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.60%	0.57%	0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.71%	0.69%	0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted	182	181	136
Median daily rate	£525	£500	£475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.00%	+5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£388	£357	£350
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£679	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£525	£435	£451
% change year-on-year	+20.68%	-3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	0
Median hourly rate	£68.00	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£68.00	-	-

SIEM is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	36460	41364	41331
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	84.71%	83.50%	80.82%
Number of daily rates quoted	23944	27759	26979
Median daily rate	£450	£446	£415
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+0.84%	+7.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£300	£288
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£593
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£385
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted	956	965	1150
Median hourly rate	£32.00	£27.25	£26.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+17.43%	+4.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£12.55	£12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£47.83	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.50	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+17.54%	-5.00%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing SIEM as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing SIEM in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SIEM in England over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for SIEM in England

SIEM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
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 within the England region over the 3 months to 22 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	+36	124	£525	-	31
South East	+14	49	£540	+2.85%	14
South West	+14	31	£520	+37.02%	3
North West	+3	21	£525	+23.52%	10
East of England	-5	13	£475	-13.63%	2
Yorkshire	+18	10	£675	+58.82%	2
West Midlands	+20	7	£394	+3.27%	7
East Midlands	-6	6	£820	+33.33%	2
SIEM UK

SIEM
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing SIEM also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for SIEM.

1	190 (41.76%)	Information Security
2	153 (33.63%)	Firewall
3	124 (27.25%)	Windows
4	111 (24.40%)	CISSP
5	100 (21.98%)	Security Operations
6	97 (21.32%)	Splunk
7	95 (20.88%)	Cybersecurity
8	90 (19.78%)	Linux
9	88 (19.34%)	Finance
10	81 (17.80%)	Security Cleared
11	71 (15.60%)	PCI DSS
12	70 (15.38%)	Network Security
13	69 (15.16%)	ISO/IEC 27001
14	64 (14.07%)	ArcSight
15	60 (13.19%)	CISM

15	60 (13.19%)	Unix
15	60 (13.19%)	ITIL
15	60 (13.19%)	Microsoft
15	60 (13.19%)	SC Cleared
16	58 (12.75%)	Vulnerability Management
17	56 (12.31%)	Intrusion Detection
17	56 (12.31%)	TCP/IP
17	56 (12.31%)	Security Operations Centre
18	54 (11.87%)	Incident Management
19	49 (10.77%)	Management Information System
19	49 (10.77%)	Cisco
20	46 (10.11%)	SANS
21	45 (9.89%)	Analytical Skills
22	44 (9.67%)	Penetration Testing
23	41 (9.01%)	VPN

SIEM
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	24 (5.27%)	Tomcat
2	19 (4.18%)	Apache
3	12 (2.64%)	WebSphere
4	10 (2.20%)	ArcGIS
4	10 (2.20%)	Elasticsearch
4	10 (2.20%)	JBoss
5	9 (1.98%)	nginx
6	7 (1.54%)	Apache Solr
7	5 (1.10%)	Apache Pig
7	5 (1.10%)	IIS
7	5 (1.10%)	Mule
8	4 (0.88%)	Apache Spark
8	4 (0.88%)	SAS
8	4 (0.88%)	SharePoint
9	2 (0.44%)	Adobe Experience Manager
9	2 (0.44%)	Cloud Foundry
9	2 (0.44%)	CMS
9	2 (0.44%)	Confluence
9	2 (0.44%)	Jetty
9	2 (0.44%)	Skype for Business

Applications
1	3 (0.66%)	MS Visio
2	2 (0.44%)	Microsoft Office
2	2 (0.44%)	Microsoft Project
2	2 (0.44%)	Spreadsheet
3	1 (0.22%)	Microsoft Excel

Business Applications
1	2 (0.44%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	1 (0.22%)	Oracle ERP

Cloud Services
1	38 (8.35%)	Amazon AWS
2	20 (4.40%)	SaaS
3	19 (4.18%)	Microsoft Azure
4	10 (2.20%)	IaaS
4	10 (2.20%)	PaaS
5	6 (1.32%)	Cloud Computing
5	6 (1.32%)	Office 365
5	6 (1.32%)	OpenDNS
6	3 (0.66%)	Akamai
6	3 (0.66%)	Google Cloud Platform
6	3 (0.66%)	Sumo Logic
7	2 (0.44%)	Amazon EC2
7	2 (0.44%)	Bluemix
7	2 (0.44%)	Google App Engine
7	2 (0.44%)	IBM Cloud
7	2 (0.44%)	SoftLayer

Communications & Networking
1	153 (33.63%)	Firewall
2	70 (15.38%)	Network Security
3	56 (12.31%)	Intrusion Detection
3	56 (12.31%)	TCP/IP
4	41 (9.01%)	VPN
5	39 (8.57%)	DNS
6	36 (7.91%)	WAN
7	34 (7.47%)	LAN
8	31 (6.81%)	Internet
9	26 (5.71%)	Wireless
10	19 (4.18%)	Cisco ASA
11	17 (3.74%)	HTTP
12	12 (2.64%)	SSL
13	11 (2.42%)	NetScaler
13	11 (2.42%)	TACACS
13	11 (2.42%)	VoIP
14	10 (2.20%)	LDAP
14	10 (2.20%)	SNMP
15	9 (1.98%)	DHCP
16	6 (1.32%)	DMZ

Database & Business Intelligence
1	23 (5.05%)	SQL Server
2	19 (4.18%)	Big Data
3	15 (3.30%)	Hadoop
4	11 (2.42%)	Apache Hive
4	11 (2.42%)	Data Mining
5	8 (1.76%)	Redis
6	7 (1.54%)	DataStax
6	7 (1.54%)	GIS
7	6 (1.32%)	DB2
7	6 (1.32%)	Maltego
8	4 (0.88%)	HBase
8	4 (0.88%)	Sqoop
9	3 (0.66%)	MariaDB
9	3 (0.66%)	MongoDB
9	3 (0.66%)	Relational Database
10	1 (0.22%)	Apache Cassandra
10	1 (0.22%)	Data Warehouse
10	1 (0.22%)	Oracle Database
10	1 (0.22%)	RDBMS
10	1 (0.22%)	SQL Server 2005

Development Applications
1	14 (3.08%)	Jenkins
2	8 (1.76%)	Sonatype Nexus
3	7 (1.54%)	Maven
3	7 (1.54%)	Team Foundation Server
4	5 (1.10%)	Hudson
4	5 (1.10%)	Metasploit
5	2 (0.44%)	JIRA
5	2 (0.44%)	Travis CI
6	1 (0.22%)	Git (software)
6	1 (0.22%)	Talend Open Studio

General
1	88 (19.34%)	Finance
2	23 (5.05%)	Banking
3	12 (2.64%)	Retail
3	12 (2.64%)	Telecoms
4	11 (2.42%)	Legal
5	8 (1.76%)	Financial Institution
6	4 (0.88%)	Manufacturing
6	4 (0.88%)	Pharmaceutical
7	3 (0.66%)	Law
8	2 (0.44%)	Aerospace
8	2 (0.44%)	Billing
8	2 (0.44%)	Electronics
8	2 (0.44%)	Local Government
8	2 (0.44%)	Marketing
8	2 (0.44%)	Publishing
8	2 (0.44%)	Spanish Language
9	1 (0.22%)	Advertising
9	1 (0.22%)	Back Office
9	1 (0.22%)	French Language
9	1 (0.22%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	140 (30.77%)	Analyst
2	112 (24.62%)	Security Analyst
3	80 (17.58%)	Consultant
4	64 (14.07%)	Architect
5	56 (12.31%)	Security Consultant
6	51 (11.21%)	SOC Analyst
7	44 (9.67%)	Security Engineer
8	38 (8.35%)	Security Architect
9	33 (7.25%)	Security Manager
10	27 (5.93%)	Project Manager
11	23 (5.05%)	Security Project Manager
11	23 (5.05%)	Security Specialist
12	20 (4.40%)	SIEM Analyst
13	19 (4.18%)	IT Analyst
14	18 (3.96%)	IT Security Analyst
14	18 (3.96%)	Senior Analyst
15	17 (3.74%)	Information Security Consultant
15	17 (3.74%)	Operations Analyst
15	17 (3.74%)	Security Operations Analyst
16	14 (3.08%)	Cybersecurity Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	23 (5.05%)	Elastic Stack
2	18 (3.96%)	Web Services
3	14 (3.08%)	Regular Expression
4	13 (2.86%)	REST
5	11 (2.42%)	.NET
6	10 (2.20%)	RESTful
7	8 (1.76%)	Middleware
7	8 (1.76%)	XML
8	7 (1.54%)	Servlets
9	6 (1.32%)	DOM
9	6 (1.32%)	JMS
9	6 (1.32%)	SAX
9	6 (1.32%)	XSD
9	6 (1.32%)	XSLT
10	5 (1.10%)	CSS
10	5 (1.10%)	Hibernate
10	5 (1.10%)	HTML
10	5 (1.10%)	JSP
10	5 (1.10%)	Struts
10	5 (1.10%)	WebSphere MQ

Miscellaneous
1	56 (12.31%)	Security Operations Centre
2	49 (10.77%)	Management Information System
3	45 (9.89%)	Analytical Skills
4	20 (4.40%)	Cyber Attack
4	20 (4.40%)	Data Centre
4	20 (4.40%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
5	19 (4.18%)	Computer Science
6	18 (3.96%)	PKI
7	13 (2.86%)	Cyberthreat
8	10 (2.20%)	Replication
9	8 (1.76%)	iSeries
10	7 (1.54%)	PMI
10	7 (1.54%)	Private Cloud
10	7 (1.54%)	Tandem
11	6 (1.32%)	Cyber Defence
12	5 (1.10%)	Client/Server
12	5 (1.10%)	Public Cloud
13	4 (0.88%)	BYOD
13	4 (0.88%)	Enterprise Software
13	4 (0.88%)	Mainframe

Operating Systems
1	124 (27.25%)	Windows
2	90 (19.78%)	Linux
3	60 (13.19%)	Unix
4	15 (3.30%)	Windows Server
5	12 (2.64%)	Mac OS X
5	12 (2.64%)	MVS
6	8 (1.76%)	VMS
7	7 (1.54%)	CentOS
8	6 (1.32%)	OpenVMS
9	5 (1.10%)	Windows NT
10	4 (0.88%)	AIX
10	4 (0.88%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11	3 (0.66%)	Solaris
12	2 (0.44%)	Apple iOS
12	2 (0.44%)	Windows 7
12	2 (0.44%)	Windows Server 2008
12	2 (0.44%)	Windows Server 2012
13	1 (0.22%)	HPUX
13	1 (0.22%)	Windows Server 2003

Processes & Methodologies
1	190 (41.76%)	Information Security
2	100 (21.98%)	Security Operations
3	95 (20.88%)	Cybersecurity
4	60 (13.19%)	ITIL
5	58 (12.75%)	Vulnerability Management
6	54 (11.87%)	Incident Management
7	44 (9.67%)	Penetration Testing
8	41 (9.01%)	Identity Access Management
9	38 (8.35%)	Vulnerability Assessment
10	36 (7.91%)	Stakeholder Management
11	35 (7.69%)	Project Management
11	35 (7.69%)	Security Monitoring
12	33 (7.25%)	Kalman Filter
13	32 (7.03%)	Agile Software Development
14	31 (6.81%)	Open Source
14	31 (6.81%)	Threat Intelligence
15	30 (6.59%)	Security Management
16	29 (6.37%)	DevOps
17	28 (6.15%)	Enterprise Architecture
17	28 (6.15%)	Security Architecture

Programming Languages
1	40 (8.79%)	SQL
2	33 (7.25%)	Python
3	27 (5.93%)	PowerShell
4	24 (5.27%)	Java
5	22 (4.84%)	Perl
6	8 (1.76%)	Bash Shell
7	7 (1.54%)	C
7	7 (1.54%)	Dart
7	7 (1.54%)	JavaScript
7	7 (1.54%)	PHP
8	4 (0.88%)	C++
8	4 (0.88%)	PL/SQL
9	3 (0.66%)	Ruby
10	1 (0.22%)	WebLogic Scripting Tool

Qualifications
1	111 (24.40%)	CISSP
2	81 (17.80%)	Security Cleared
3	60 (13.19%)	CISM
3	60 (13.19%)	SC Cleared
4	46 (10.11%)	SANS
5	30 (6.59%)	CISA
6	29 (6.37%)	Degree
7	24 (5.27%)	DV Cleared
8	23 (5.05%)	Cisco Certification
8	23 (5.05%)	GIAC
9	22 (4.84%)	GCIH
10	19 (4.18%)	CEH
11	17 (3.74%)	Computer Science Degree
12	15 (3.30%)	(ISC)2 CCSP
12	15 (3.30%)	SSCP
13	14 (3.08%)	CCSP
14	13 (2.86%)	GCIA
15	9 (1.98%)	CESG Certified Professional
15	9 (1.98%)	CREST Certified
16	8 (1.76%)	CRISC

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	71 (15.60%)	PCI DSS
2	69 (15.16%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	20 (4.40%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4	17 (3.74%)	GDPR
5	8 (1.76%)	FedRAMP
5	8 (1.76%)	GPG13
5	8 (1.76%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
6	7 (1.54%)	COBIT
7	6 (1.32%)	JSP 440
7	6 (1.32%)	SLA
8	4 (0.88%)	ISO 22301
8	4 (0.88%)	ISO/IEC 27005
9	3 (0.66%)	Cyber Essentials
9	3 (0.66%)	PMO
9	3 (0.66%)	QA
10	2 (0.44%)	Disclosure Scotland
10	2 (0.44%)	GMP
10	2 (0.44%)	HIPAA
11	1 (0.22%)	ISAE 3402
11	1 (0.22%)	SSAE 16

System Software
1	35 (7.69%)	Active Directory
2	12 (2.64%)	Docker
2	12 (2.64%)	Hyper-V
2	12 (2.64%)	Snort
3	7 (1.54%)	Apache Flume
3	7 (1.54%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	6 (1.32%)	RACF
4	6 (1.32%)	vCloud
5	4 (0.88%)	HDFS
6	3 (0.66%)	vSphere
7	2 (0.44%)	Microsoft App-V
7	2 (0.44%)	Xen
8	1 (0.22%)	Virtual Machines

Systems Management
1	32 (7.03%)	QRadar
2	23 (5.05%)	SCCM
3	15 (3.30%)	Host Intrusion Detection System
3	15 (3.30%)	Kibana
3	15 (3.30%)	logstash
3	15 (3.30%)	Puppet
4	14 (3.08%)	Nessus
5	13 (2.86%)	SCOM
6	12 (2.64%)	Ansible
6	12 (2.64%)	CSIRT
7	11 (2.42%)	McAfee ePO
8	9 (1.98%)	Opscode Chef
8	9 (1.98%)	RSA enVision
9	8 (1.76%)	Computer Incident Response Team
10	7 (1.54%)	Red Hat Satellite
11	6 (1.32%)	Network Intrusion Detection System
11	6 (1.32%)	Nmap
12	5 (1.10%)	ArcSight ESM
13	4 (0.88%)	Terraform
13	4 (0.88%)	vRealize

Vendors
1	97 (21.32%)	Splunk
2	64 (14.07%)	ArcSight
3	60 (13.19%)	Microsoft
4	49 (10.77%)	Cisco
5	35 (7.69%)	HP
5	35 (7.69%)	IBM
6	33 (7.25%)	LogRhythm
7	29 (6.37%)	VMware
8	24 (5.27%)	CheckPoint
9	23 (5.05%)	CyberArk
10	22 (4.84%)	McAfee
10	22 (4.84%)	Oracle
11	19 (4.18%)	Red Hat
12	18 (3.96%)	ServiceNow
13	17 (3.74%)	Citrix
13	17 (3.74%)	FireEye
13	17 (3.74%)	Qualys
14	16 (3.52%)	Rapid7
15	13 (2.86%)	Cloudera
16	11 (2.42%)	Palo Alto