SIEM Contracts in the South East

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 106 191
Rank change year-on-year +28 +85 -59
Contract jobs citing SIEM 128 108 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.31% 1.87% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 2.09% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 78 51
10th Percentile £425 £425 -
25th Percentile £493 £488 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £581 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +5.68% +15.79%
75th Percentile £675 £673 £638
90th Percentile £800 £716 £700
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
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
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,694 5,167 6,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.65% 89.46% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,751 3,590 4,710
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 223 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.10 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.53
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.96 £63.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SIEM in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the South East over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 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
Hampshire +34 89 £650 -0.95% 9
West Sussex +21 18 £450 -28.00%
Thames Valley -24 18 £583 +5.91% 14
Berkshire -17 13 £600 +9.09% 13
Buckinghamshire +3 5 £550 -1.79%
Surrey +14 3 £500 +25.00% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (9.38%) Azure
2 6 (4.69%) AWS
3 4 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.78%) IaaS
6 1 (0.78%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.78%) PaaS
6 1 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.94%) SD-WAN
2 7 (5.47%) Firewall
3 3 (2.34%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.56%) LAN
4 2 (1.56%) Network Security
4 2 (1.56%) WAN
5 1 (0.78%) DHCP
5 1 (0.78%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.34%) JIRA
General
1 25 (19.53%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (7.03%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.69%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.78%) Finance
Job Titles
1 39 (30.47%) Architect
2 35 (27.34%) Network Architect
3 17 (13.28%) Analyst
3 17 (13.28%) Lead
4 14 (10.94%) Consultant
5 13 (10.16%) Senior
6 11 (8.59%) Security Consultant
6 11 (8.59%) SOC Analyst
7 9 (7.03%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 8 (6.25%) IT Security Specialist
8 8 (6.25%) Security Operations Specialist
8 8 (6.25%) Security Specialist
9 7 (5.47%) ArcSight Consultant
10 6 (4.69%) Network Engineer
11 5 (3.91%) SIEM Engineer
12 4 (3.13%) ArcSight Engineer
12 4 (3.13%) Security Engineer
12 4 (3.13%) Senior Network Engineer
12 4 (3.13%) SOC Engineer
13 3 (2.34%) Head of Information Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.56%) OAuth
1 2 (1.56%) OpenID
1 2 (1.56%) SAML
2 1 (0.78%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 30 (23.44%) Management Information System
2 23 (17.97%) Cyber Threat
3 22 (17.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 18 (14.06%) Cyber Defence
5 10 (7.81%) PKI
6 3 (2.34%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.34%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.78%) CSOC
8 1 (0.78%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.06%) Windows
2 16 (12.50%) Linux
3 13 (10.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (32.03%) Cybersecurity
1 41 (32.03%) Network Management
2 39 (30.47%) Incident Response
3 30 (23.44%) Security Operations
4 27 (21.09%) Vulnerability Management
5 25 (19.53%) Requirements Management
6 22 (17.19%) Information Security
7 19 (14.84%) Data Loss Prevention
7 19 (14.84%) Data Security
7 19 (14.84%) Presales
7 19 (14.84%) Protective Monitoring
8 18 (14.06%) Use Case
9 17 (13.28%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 16 (12.50%) Incident Management
11 15 (11.72%) Mentoring
12 14 (10.94%) SOAR
13 13 (10.16%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 13 (10.16%) Threat Intelligence
14 12 (9.38%) Case Management
14 12 (9.38%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.94%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.13%) Python
3 3 (2.34%) VBScript
4 2 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (71.09%) Security Cleared
2 60 (46.88%) DV Cleared
3 13 (10.16%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.78%) CCNA
4 1 (0.78%) CCSP
4 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.78%) CISSP
4 1 (0.78%) Degree
4 1 (0.78%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.06%) NIST
2 17 (13.28%) NIST 800
3 4 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.56%) COBIT
5 1 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (2.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 3 (2.34%) Nessus
2 2 (1.56%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (1.56%) QRadar
3 1 (0.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 41 (32.03%) Microsoft
2 18 (14.06%) LogRhythm
3 16 (12.50%) Forcepoint
3 16 (12.50%) Qualys
3 16 (12.50%) Varonis
4 13 (10.16%) ArcSight
5 6 (4.69%) Splunk
6 5 (3.91%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (3.91%) VMware
7 3 (2.34%) Cisco
7 3 (2.34%) Citrix
8 2 (1.56%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.56%) Netskope
8 2 (1.56%) Virgin Media
8 2 (1.56%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.78%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.78%) TippingPoint
9 1 (0.78%) Trend Micro