SIEM Engineer Contracts in London

SIEM Engineer
England > London

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in London is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 485 581
Rank change year-on-year +121 +96 -132
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 37 10 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.037% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.039% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 10 6
10th Percentile £765 £624 £606
25th Percentile £775 £631 £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £650 £720
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -9.72% +37.14%
75th Percentile £825 £697 £869
90th Percentile £925 £750 £913
England median daily rate £800 £603 £313
% change year-on-year +32.78% +92.80% -40.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,596 25,593 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,994 18,537 27,104
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 292 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.60 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.72 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in London

SIEM Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM Engineer in London

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for SIEM Engineer in London

SIEM Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +46 4 £850 +30.77%
SIEM Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 London region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) SIEM
2 26 (70.27%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (59.46%) Observability
3 22 (59.46%) DV Cleared
3 22 (59.46%) Security Cleared
4 11 (29.73%) Splunk
5 8 (21.62%) CISSP
6 5 (13.51%) ArcSight
6 5 (13.51%) Banking
6 5 (13.51%) Firewall
6 5 (13.51%) Finance
7 4 (10.81%) ICMP
7 4 (10.81%) Unix
7 4 (10.81%) POP3
7 4 (10.81%) SMTP
7 4 (10.81%) FTP
7 4 (10.81%) HTTP
7 4 (10.81%) TCP/IP
7 4 (10.81%) SSH
7 4 (10.81%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (10.81%) QRadar
7 4 (10.81%) logstash
7 4 (10.81%) Kibana
7 4 (10.81%) Data Loss Prevention
7 4 (10.81%) Security Monitoring
7 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
8 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
8 2 (5.41%) Vulnerability Management
8 2 (5.41%) Information Security

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

Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Firewall
2 4 (10.81%) FTP
2 4 (10.81%) HTTP
2 4 (10.81%) ICMP
2 4 (10.81%) POP3
2 4 (10.81%) SMTP
2 4 (10.81%) SSH
2 4 (10.81%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) BGP
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.70%) EIGRP
3 1 (2.70%) Network Security
3 1 (2.70%) OSPF
3 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (70.27%) Elasticsearch
General
1 5 (13.51%) Banking
1 5 (13.51%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Unix
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) SIEM
2 22 (59.46%) Observability
3 4 (10.81%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (10.81%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (5.41%) Information Security
4 2 (5.41%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (2.70%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (2.70%) Data Protection
5 1 (2.70%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (2.70%) Incident Response
5 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (2.70%) Interactive Application Security Testing
5 1 (2.70%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (2.70%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (2.70%) Security Operations
5 1 (2.70%) SOAR
5 1 (2.70%) Static Application Security Testing
5 1 (2.70%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (2.70%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.70%) Bash
2 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (59.46%) DV Cleared
1 22 (59.46%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (2.70%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Kibana
1 4 (10.81%) logstash
1 4 (10.81%) QRadar
2 1 (2.70%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Splunk
2 5 (13.51%) ArcSight
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) AlgoSec
4 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) McAfee
4 1 (2.70%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds