SIEM Contracts in Reading

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 42 82 77
Rank change year-on-year +40 -5 +14
Contract jobs citing SIEM 18 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.02% 0.76% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 0.84% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 9
10th Percentile £395 - £380
25th Percentile £450 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £615
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -6.50% +58.71%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £688
90th Percentile £724 £665 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -13.58% +10.45% +41.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) Network Security
2 6 (33.33%) Firewall
3 4 (22.22%) BGP
3 4 (22.22%) OSPF
3 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 4 (22.22%) VLAN
3 4 (22.22%) VPN
4 3 (16.67%) NGFW
4 3 (16.67%) SSL
5 2 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (5.56%) Wireless
6 1 (5.56%) Wireless Security
General
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
1 5 (27.78%) Security Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Lead
2 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) CyberArk Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Security Advisor
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) SAML
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Security Operations Centre
1 4 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (44.44%) Security Monitoring
1 8 (44.44%) Security Operations
2 6 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) Data Security
3 5 (27.78%) Threat Detection
4 4 (22.22%) Application Security
4 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 4 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
4 4 (22.22%) RBAC
4 4 (22.22%) Security Architecture
5 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 3 (16.67%) Microservices
5 3 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) TOGAF
5 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (27.78%) CISSP
2 4 (22.22%) CCNP
2 4 (22.22%) CCSA
2 4 (22.22%) CCSE
2 4 (22.22%) Check Point Certification
3 3 (16.67%) CISM
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) CEH
4 1 (5.56%) CFCE
4 1 (5.56%) CISA
4 1 (5.56%) GCIH
4 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Cisco
3 4 (22.22%) CheckPoint
3 4 (22.22%) Palo Alto
4 3 (16.67%) Splunk
5 2 (11.11%) CyberArk
5 2 (11.11%) VMware
6 1 (5.56%) ArcSight
6 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (5.56%) Darktrace
6 1 (5.56%) Kenna
6 1 (5.56%) Rapid7