SIEM Contracts in London

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 197 203 208
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +136
Contract jobs citing SIEM 160 198 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.28% 1.11% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.25% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 147 240
10th Percentile £400 £438 £475
25th Percentile £475 £513 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £644
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -6.87% +7.38%
75th Percentile £700 £825 £750
90th Percentile £775 - £823
England median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - £91.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £97.50
75th Percentile £63.25 - £103.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.68 £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +101.69% -46.67% +13.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in London

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in London

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in London

SIEM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in London

SIEM
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +4 22 £575 +1.77% 23
East London +11 3 £585 - 1
West London +11 3 £525 - 15
North London - 2 £650 -
SIEM
England

SIEM
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.88%) Apache
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.25%) 1Password
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 58 (36.25%) Azure
2 28 (17.50%) AWS
3 21 (13.13%) Azure Sentinel
4 16 (10.00%) GCP
5 10 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (4.38%) GitHub
7 6 (3.75%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (2.50%) AWS KMS
9 4 (2.50%) Serverless
10 3 (1.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.88%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (1.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 2 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.25%) Datadog
11 2 (1.25%) Google Workspace
11 2 (1.25%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (28.13%) Firewall
2 29 (18.13%) Network Security
3 17 (10.63%) TCP/IP
4 16 (10.00%) DNS
5 13 (8.13%) SMTP
6 12 (7.50%) HTTP
7 8 (5.00%) DHCP
8 6 (3.75%) VPN
9 3 (1.88%) FTP
9 3 (1.88%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.88%) SNMP
9 3 (1.88%) SSH
9 3 (1.88%) SSL
9 3 (1.88%) Telnet
9 3 (1.88%) Wireshark
10 2 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (1.25%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.25%) WAN
11 1 (0.63%) DSLAM
11 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.13%) Big Data
2 4 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.50%) GitLab
2 4 (2.50%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.88%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.25%) Git
5 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 40 (25.00%) Finance
2 25 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.50%) Banking
5 11 (6.88%) Legal
5 11 (6.88%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.38%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.75%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.13%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.50%) Electronics
9 4 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.50%) Marketing
10 3 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.88%) Law
10 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.25%) French Language
11 2 (1.25%) Local Government
11 2 (1.25%) Military
11 2 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (19.38%) Analyst
2 27 (16.88%) Security Engineer
3 24 (15.00%) Architect
4 18 (11.25%) Security Analyst
4 18 (11.25%) Security Architect
5 14 (8.75%) SOC Analyst
6 13 (8.13%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 13 (8.13%) Operations Engineer
7 12 (7.50%) Senior
8 11 (6.88%) Consultant
8 11 (6.88%) Lead
8 11 (6.88%) Security Manager
9 9 (5.63%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.38%) Splunk Engineer
11 6 (3.75%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 5 (3.13%) IT Engineer
12 5 (3.13%) IT Security Architect
12 5 (3.13%) IT Security Engineer
12 5 (3.13%) Project Manager
12 5 (3.13%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.25%) .NET
2 4 (2.50%) HTML
2 4 (2.50%) XML
3 3 (1.88%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (1.88%) ASP.NET
3 3 (1.88%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (1.88%) CSS
3 3 (1.88%) JSON
3 3 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (1.88%) REST
4 2 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.25%) Kafka
4 2 (1.25%) Node.js
4 2 (1.25%) React
4 2 (1.25%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.63%) Ajax
5 1 (0.63%) OAuth
5 1 (0.63%) OpenID
5 1 (0.63%) SOAP
5 1 (0.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.25%) Security Posture
2 21 (13.13%) Cyber Threat
3 17 (10.63%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (8.13%) Management Information System
5 10 (6.25%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.38%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.50%) Cyberattack
8 4 (2.50%) Replication
9 3 (1.88%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.88%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.25%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.25%) CMDB
10 2 (1.25%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.25%) Social Media
11 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.88%) Windows
2 21 (13.13%) Linux
3 11 (6.88%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.88%) CentOS
4 3 (1.88%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.63%) Unix
6 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (41.88%) Incident Response
2 59 (36.88%) Cybersecurity
3 57 (35.63%) Security Operations
4 42 (26.25%) Vulnerability Management
5 40 (25.00%) SOAR
6 34 (21.25%) Threat Detection
7 29 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (15.63%) Security Architecture
9 23 (14.38%) DevOps
10 22 (13.75%) Cloud Security
10 22 (13.75%) Threat Intelligence
11 21 (13.13%) Data Loss Prevention
12 20 (12.50%) Information Security
13 17 (10.63%) Threat Modelling
14 15 (9.38%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
15 14 (8.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 14 (8.75%) Penetration Testing
15 14 (8.75%) Security Monitoring
16 13 (8.13%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 13 (8.13%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (19.38%) PowerShell
2 30 (18.75%) Python
3 10 (6.25%) Bash
4 9 (5.63%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (3.75%) C#
5 6 (3.75%) Java
6 4 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.50%) SQL
7 2 (1.25%) PHP
7 2 (1.25%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.63%) Bicep
8 1 (0.63%) C
8 1 (0.63%) Go
8 1 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.63%) CISSP
3 23 (14.38%) SC Cleared
4 14 (8.75%) GCIH
5 13 (8.13%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (8.13%) CompTIA Security+
5 13 (8.13%) Degree
6 11 (6.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 11 (6.88%) CISM
7 10 (6.25%) CCSP
7 10 (6.25%) CEH
8 9 (5.63%) DV Cleared
9 7 (4.38%) GIAC
10 6 (3.75%) GCIA
11 5 (3.13%) AWS Certification
12 4 (2.50%) CCNA
12 4 (2.50%) OSCP
13 3 (1.88%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (1.88%) GCFA
13 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (21.25%) NIST
2 31 (19.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (13.13%) GDPR
4 13 (8.13%) HIPAA
5 12 (7.50%) PCI DSS
6 9 (5.63%) SLA
7 4 (2.50%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (1.25%) NCSC
8 2 (1.25%) QA
8 2 (1.25%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.63%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.63%) GRC
9 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (8.13%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.13%) Docker
3 5 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.50%) vSphere
5 3 (1.88%) FreeRADIUS
5 3 (1.88%) iptables
5 3 (1.88%) vCloud
5 3 (1.88%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (1.25%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.38%) Ansible
2 7 (4.38%) Terraform
3 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.75%) QRadar
4 5 (3.13%) Grafana
4 5 (3.13%) SCCM
5 3 (1.88%) Cacti
5 3 (1.88%) Kibana
5 3 (1.88%) Nagios
5 3 (1.88%) Netcool
5 3 (1.88%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.88%) Proxmox
5 3 (1.88%) Puppet
5 3 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.88%) WSUS
5 3 (1.88%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.25%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.25%) logstash
6 2 (1.25%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 54 (33.75%) Microsoft
2 38 (23.75%) Splunk
3 19 (11.88%) Google
4 15 (9.38%) Palo Alto
5 12 (7.50%) VMware
6 9 (5.63%) CrowdStrike
6 9 (5.63%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.13%) Cisco
7 5 (3.13%) Qualys
7 5 (3.13%) Rapid7
8 4 (2.50%) LogRhythm
8 4 (2.50%) SAP
9 3 (1.88%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.88%) Darktrace
9 3 (1.88%) Nokia
9 3 (1.88%) Okta
9 3 (1.88%) Sophos
9 3 (1.88%) Tenable
10 2 (1.25%) McAfee
10 2 (1.25%) Salesforce