SIEM Contracts in Scotland

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 104 112 145
Rank change year-on-year +8 +33 0
Contract jobs citing SIEM 12 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.74% 0.77% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.87% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 12
10th Percentile £440 £446 £429
25th Percentile £463 £508 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -9.57% -
75th Percentile £838 £641 £650
90th Percentile - £696 £718
UK median daily rate £551 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.17% - +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in Scotland

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in Scotland

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in Scotland

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +4 8 £488 -5.34% 7
Glasgow +4 4 £825 +24.53% 11
SIEM
UK

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (8.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (8.33%) CloudFront
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Sumo Logic
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Security Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Network Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Operational Security Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Security Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
1 5 (41.67%) Security Operations
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Management
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Measurement
4 2 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (16.67%) RBAC
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 2 (16.67%) Runbook
4 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Identification
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CEH
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) GCFA
2 1 (8.33%) GCIH
2 1 (8.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) CASB
2 1 (8.33%) HAProxy
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) linkerd
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Splunk
3 2 (16.67%) Citrix
3 2 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (16.67%) CyberArk
4 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (8.33%) ForgeRock
4 1 (8.33%) Rapid7
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) VMware