SIEM Contracts in London

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 214 353
Rank change year-on-year +2 +139 -80
Contract jobs citing SIEM 195 338 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.10% 1.25% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.37% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 241 176
10th Percentile £438 £475 £425
25th Percentile £513 £520 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £645 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% +7.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £825 £750 £692
90th Percentile - £823 £800
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £97.50 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year -46.67% +13.98% +19.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,676 24,638 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.11% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 17,712 26,145
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £50.88
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 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 +20 22 £565 -10.32% 10
East London +2 7 £585 -2.50% 1
West London +16 4 £525 -38.24% 6
South London - 2 £475 - 2
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 6 (3.08%) Confluence
1 6 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.51%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 44 (22.56%) Azure
2 17 (8.72%) AWS
3 15 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (7.18%) SaaS
5 11 (5.64%) Azure Sentinel
5 11 (5.64%) Entra ID
6 10 (5.13%) IaaS
7 5 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.56%) GCP
8 4 (2.05%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (2.05%) Serverless
9 3 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.54%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.54%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (1.54%) AWS KMS
9 3 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 52 (26.67%) Firewall
2 17 (8.72%) Network Security
3 15 (7.69%) WAN
4 12 (6.15%) SD-WAN
5 11 (5.64%) TCP/IP
6 10 (5.13%) HTTP
7 7 (3.59%) DNS
8 5 (2.56%) FTP
8 5 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (2.56%) SMTP
8 5 (2.56%) VPN
9 4 (2.05%) HTTPS
9 4 (2.05%) ICMP
9 4 (2.05%) LAN
9 4 (2.05%) POP3
9 4 (2.05%) SSH
10 3 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (1.54%) IPsec
11 2 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.85%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.03%) Power BI
4 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.51%) MySQL
4 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.05%) JIRA
2 3 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.51%) Git
General
1 71 (36.41%) Finance
2 28 (14.36%) Banking
3 23 (11.79%) Social Skills
4 14 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.05%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.03%) Retail
7 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.51%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.51%) Law
7 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (21.54%) Security Engineer
2 41 (21.03%) Analyst
3 38 (19.49%) SIEM Engineer
4 30 (15.38%) Architect
5 19 (9.74%) Security Architect
6 18 (9.23%) ArcSight Engineer
6 18 (9.23%) Security Analyst
7 17 (8.72%) Senior
8 14 (7.18%) SOC Analyst
9 12 (6.15%) Consultant
10 11 (5.64%) Lead
10 11 (5.64%) Security Consultant
11 9 (4.62%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 9 (4.62%) SOC Engineer
11 9 (4.62%) Splunk Engineer
12 8 (4.10%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 8 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (3.59%) Network Engineer
13 7 (3.59%) Network Security Engineer
13 7 (3.59%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (2.56%) SAML
3 3 (1.54%) OAuth
4 2 (1.03%) AWS SAM
4 2 (1.03%) OpenID
4 2 (1.03%) Regular Expression
4 2 (1.03%) REST
4 2 (1.03%) RESTful
5 1 (0.51%) EDI
5 1 (0.51%) JSON
5 1 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.74%) Security Posture
2 17 (8.72%) Cyber Threat
2 17 (8.72%) PKI
3 12 (6.15%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.10%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.59%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (2.56%) Cyberattack
7 5 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.56%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.05%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.54%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.03%) IoT
10 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.51%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.26%) Windows
2 12 (6.15%) Linux
3 8 (4.10%) Unix
4 4 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.03%) CentOS
5 2 (1.03%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (39.49%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (20.51%) Cloud Security
3 33 (16.92%) Information Security
3 33 (16.92%) Security Operations
4 29 (14.87%) Incident Response
5 27 (13.85%) Data Loss Prevention
6 26 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
7 25 (12.82%) Observability
8 24 (12.31%) Use Case
9 21 (10.77%) Threat Detection
10 19 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (9.23%) Identity Access Management
12 17 (8.72%) DevOps
12 17 (8.72%) Migration
12 17 (8.72%) Penetration Testing
13 16 (8.21%) Roadmaps
13 16 (8.21%) Security Architecture
14 14 (7.18%) CI/CD
15 13 (6.67%) Security Monitoring
15 13 (6.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.82%) PowerShell
2 23 (11.79%) Python
3 8 (4.10%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (3.59%) Bash
5 3 (1.54%) SQL
6 2 (1.03%) Go
6 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.51%) C#
7 1 (0.51%) Perl
7 1 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (20.00%) CISSP
2 36 (18.46%) Security Cleared
3 27 (13.85%) DV Cleared
4 23 (11.79%) Degree
5 17 (8.72%) CISM
6 12 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (5.13%) CEH
8 9 (4.62%) CCNP
8 9 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (4.62%) GIAC
8 9 (4.62%) SC Cleared
9 6 (3.08%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.56%) GCIA
10 5 (2.56%) GCIH
11 4 (2.05%) CISA
11 4 (2.05%) SANS
12 3 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.54%) CCIE
12 3 (1.54%) CCSP
13 2 (1.03%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (20.51%) NIST
2 32 (16.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 8 (4.10%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.08%) GRC
6 4 (2.05%) GDPR
6 4 (2.05%) ISO 9001
7 3 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.54%) NCSC
7 3 (1.54%) QA
8 2 (1.03%) COBIT
8 2 (1.03%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.03%) ISO 22301
8 2 (1.03%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.51%) GLBA
9 1 (0.51%) ISAE 3402
9 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (7.18%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (6.15%) Terraform
2 11 (5.64%) QRadar
3 8 (4.10%) Ansible
4 7 (3.59%) ArcSight ESM
5 5 (2.56%) FortiGate
5 5 (2.56%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.56%) Nessus
6 4 (2.05%) Kibana
6 4 (2.05%) logstash
6 4 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.54%) CASB
7 3 (1.54%) CSIRT
7 3 (1.54%) Grafana
7 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.03%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (1.03%) PingFederate
8 2 (1.03%) Puppet
9 1 (0.51%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (21.03%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.31%) Splunk
3 23 (11.79%) ArcSight
4 13 (6.67%) Cisco
5 12 (6.15%) LogRhythm
6 9 (4.62%) Palo Alto
7 7 (3.59%) Rapid7
8 5 (2.56%) AlienVault
8 5 (2.56%) Darktrace
9 4 (2.05%) Fortinet
9 4 (2.05%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (1.54%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.54%) McAfee
10 3 (1.54%) New Relic
10 3 (1.54%) Oracle
11 2 (1.03%) Carbon Black
11 2 (1.03%) Netskope
11 2 (1.03%) Ping Identity
11 2 (1.03%) Varonis