SIEM Contracts in England

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > 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 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 175 355
Rank change year-on-year +36 +180 -67
Contract jobs citing SIEM 617 758 522
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.66% 1.51% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.68% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 550 360
10th Percentile £425 £450 £381
25th Percentile £513 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £783 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +13.98% +19.64%
75th Percentile £63.44 £77.63 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £80.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year -46.67% +13.98% +19.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,086 45,187 64,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.18% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,040 31,727 45,864
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,256 1,594 1,765
10th Percentile £12.96 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.69
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in England

SIEM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIEM in England.

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SIEM in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 6 months to 3 May 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 -9 197 £600 -6.25% 85
South West +59 167 £570 +8.57% 21
South East +30 128 £625 +7.53% 29
Midlands +49 89 £600 - 10
West Midlands +53 87 £600 - 7
North of England -60 31 £700 +24.38% 29
Yorkshire -15 21 £800 +39.74% 13
North West -46 10 £625 +12.61% 15
East of England +18 6 £600 +41.18% 5
East Midlands +7 2 £596 -1.65% 3
SIEM
UK

SIEM
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (1.30%) Confluence
2 6 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.16%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 104 (16.86%) Azure
2 45 (7.29%) AWS
3 33 (5.35%) Azure Sentinel
4 19 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (2.76%) SaaS
6 14 (2.27%) IaaS
7 13 (2.11%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (1.30%) GCP
10 7 (1.13%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (0.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (0.65%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.65%) PaaS
12 3 (0.49%) AWS KMS
12 3 (0.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (0.49%) Mimecast
12 3 (0.49%) Serverless
13 2 (0.32%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 108 (17.50%) Firewall
2 62 (10.05%) Network Security
3 27 (4.38%) TCP/IP
4 26 (4.21%) Intrusion Detection
4 26 (4.21%) SD-WAN
5 19 (3.08%) WAN
6 17 (2.76%) DNS
7 12 (1.94%) Cisco ISE
8 11 (1.78%) DHCP
9 10 (1.62%) HTTP
10 7 (1.13%) LAN
10 7 (1.13%) VPN
11 5 (0.81%) FTP
11 5 (0.81%) SMTP
11 5 (0.81%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.65%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.65%) ICMP
12 4 (0.65%) POP3
12 4 (0.65%) SSH
12 4 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.56%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (2.43%) Big Data
3 5 (0.81%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.32%) Power BI
5 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.16%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.16%) MySQL
6 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (2.76%) JIRA
2 3 (0.49%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.32%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.32%) Git
4 1 (0.16%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 135 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 94 (15.24%) Finance
3 78 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (6.48%) Public Sector
5 38 (6.16%) Banking
6 18 (2.92%) Legal
7 15 (2.43%) Manufacturing
8 13 (2.11%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.94%) Military
10 3 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.32%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.32%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.32%) Law
11 2 (0.32%) Police
11 2 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.32%) Retail
12 1 (0.16%) Electronics
12 1 (0.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 177 (28.69%) Analyst
2 87 (14.10%) SOC Analyst
3 79 (12.80%) Architect
4 75 (12.16%) Security Engineer
5 68 (11.02%) SIEM Engineer
6 42 (6.81%) Lead
7 41 (6.65%) Senior
8 40 (6.48%) Network Architect
9 39 (6.32%) Consultant
10 37 (6.00%) SOC Engineer
11 35 (5.67%) Security Analyst
12 31 (5.02%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
13 28 (4.54%) Security Architect
14 26 (4.21%) Security Consultant
15 22 (3.57%) ArcSight Engineer
16 20 (3.24%) Cyber Threat Analyst
16 20 (3.24%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
17 19 (3.08%) Cyber Defence Analyst
17 19 (3.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
18 17 (2.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.89%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (2.43%) Apache NiFi
3 8 (1.30%) SAML
4 6 (0.97%) OAuth
5 5 (0.81%) Regular Expression
6 4 (0.65%) OpenID
7 3 (0.49%) JSON
7 3 (0.49%) Kafka
8 2 (0.32%) AWS SAM
8 2 (0.32%) REST
8 2 (0.32%) RESTful
8 2 (0.32%) XML
8 2 (0.32%) YAML
9 1 (0.16%) Ajax
9 1 (0.16%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.16%) CSS
9 1 (0.16%) EDI
9 1 (0.16%) HTML
9 1 (0.16%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.16%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 114 (18.48%) Cyber Threat
2 100 (16.21%) Cyber Defence
3 85 (13.78%) Management Information System
4 84 (13.61%) Security Operations Centre
5 80 (12.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 35 (5.67%) Security Posture
7 27 (4.38%) CSOC
7 27 (4.38%) PKI
8 21 (3.40%) Distributed Applications
9 17 (2.76%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.62%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.62%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.30%) Cyberattack
13 8 (1.30%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.13%) Data Centre
14 7 (1.13%) Operational Technology
15 6 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 83 (13.45%) Linux
2 80 (12.97%) Windows
3 29 (4.70%) Unix
4 21 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (3.08%) Windows Server
6 13 (2.11%) Android
6 13 (2.11%) Apple iOS
6 13 (2.11%) Mac OS X
6 13 (2.11%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.32%) CentOS
7 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.32%) zOS
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (51.54%) Cybersecurity
2 185 (29.98%) Security Operations
3 183 (29.66%) Incident Response
4 122 (19.77%) Information Security
5 116 (18.80%) Use Case
6 111 (17.99%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 105 (17.02%) SOAR
8 100 (16.21%) Threat Intelligence
9 95 (15.40%) Vulnerability Management
10 92 (14.91%) Incident Management
11 89 (14.42%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 68 (11.02%) Mentoring
13 66 (10.70%) Security Architecture
14 65 (10.53%) Protective Monitoring
15 64 (10.37%) Analytics
16 62 (10.05%) Cloud Security
17 53 (8.59%) Root Cause Analysis
18 52 (8.43%) Data Loss Prevention
19 45 (7.29%) Case Management
19 45 (7.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 42 (6.81%) PowerShell
2 30 (4.86%) Python
3 16 (2.59%) Kusto Query Language
4 12 (1.94%) C#
5 9 (1.46%) Bash
6 8 (1.30%) R
7 7 (1.13%) Java
8 5 (0.81%) SQL
9 4 (0.65%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.49%) VBScript
11 2 (0.32%) Go
12 1 (0.16%) Perl
12 1 (0.16%) Ruby
12 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 354 (57.37%) Security Cleared
2 252 (40.84%) DV Cleared
3 89 (14.42%) SC Cleared
4 70 (11.35%) CISSP
5 68 (11.02%) Degree
6 31 (5.02%) SANS
7 26 (4.21%) CISM
8 24 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (3.24%) CompTIA Security+
10 17 (2.76%) CEH
11 16 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (2.11%) GIAC
13 9 (1.46%) CCNP
14 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.97%) CCNA
15 6 (0.97%) CCSP
16 5 (0.81%) Azure Certification
16 5 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.81%) GCIA
16 5 (0.81%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (22.04%) NIST
2 67 (10.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (9.56%) NIST 800
4 21 (3.40%) GDPR
5 19 (3.08%) PCI DSS
6 16 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 15 (2.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 15 (2.43%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (1.30%) GRC
9 8 (1.30%) NCSC
10 4 (0.65%) COBIT
10 4 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.65%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.49%) QA
12 2 (0.32%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.16%) GLBA
13 1 (0.16%) ISA99
13 1 (0.16%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 37 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.46%) iptables
4 7 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.13%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.97%) Docker
6 2 (0.32%) Snort
6 2 (0.32%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 23 (3.73%) Kibana
2 22 (3.57%) logstash
3 17 (2.76%) Terraform
4 15 (2.43%) QRadar
5 10 (1.62%) Nessus
5 10 (1.62%) SCCM
6 8 (1.30%) Ansible
7 7 (1.13%) ArcSight ESM
7 7 (1.13%) Kubernetes
7 7 (1.13%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.81%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.65%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 4 (0.65%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 3 (0.49%) CASB
11 3 (0.49%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.49%) Grafana
11 3 (0.49%) Nmap
11 3 (0.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 164 (26.58%) Microsoft
2 58 (9.40%) Splunk
3 37 (6.00%) ArcSight
4 36 (5.83%) LogRhythm
5 31 (5.02%) Cisco
6 22 (3.57%) Qualys
7 18 (2.92%) Varonis
8 17 (2.76%) Forcepoint
9 14 (2.27%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.94%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.94%) Rapid7
10 12 (1.94%) VMware
11 11 (1.78%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (1.13%) Sophos
12 7 (1.13%) Veeam
13 6 (0.97%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.81%) AlienVault
14 5 (0.81%) CheckPoint
14 5 (0.81%) Darktrace
14 5 (0.81%) Fortinet