SIEM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 136 254
Rank change year-on-year +17 +118 -12
Contract jobs citing SIEM 382 411 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.81% 1.80% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 2.02% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 310 220
10th Percentile £433 £413 £348
25th Percentile £513 £470 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £688
90th Percentile £825 £727 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 6
10th Percentile - - £56.25
25th Percentile - £72.50 £58.01
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +13.98% +75.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £77.56 £69.31
90th Percentile £73.95 £77.68 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year -35.00% +13.98% +31.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,503 20,300 27,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.16% 89.14% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,332 13,919 19,210
10th Percentile £250 £260 £241
25th Percentile £375 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £581
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,157 1,243 1,356
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.11 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.73 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.90 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.67% +39.80% +10.64%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SIEM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
South West +57 155 £582 +10.86% 13
South East +28 120 £625 +8.70% 28
Midlands +29 78 £584 -2.67% 15
West Midlands +29 76 £584 -2.67% 11
North of England -58 36 £582 +5.82% 42
Yorkshire -20 23 £800 +39.13% 17
Scotland +37 17 £520 -9.57% 15
North West -49 13 £538 -2.18% 25
East of England +6 4 £600 +41.18% 4
Wales +4 2 £298 -32.00% 1
East Midlands -4 2 £596 -1.65% 4
SIEM
UK

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (0.52%) Apache
2 1 (0.26%) Confluence
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 46 (12.04%) Azure
2 24 (6.28%) AWS
3 12 (3.14%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (1.05%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.05%) SaaS
6 3 (0.79%) GCP
7 2 (0.52%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.52%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.26%) IaaS
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.26%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.26%) PaaS
8 1 (0.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 48 (12.57%) Network Security
2 43 (11.26%) Firewall
3 22 (5.76%) Intrusion Detection
4 13 (3.40%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.62%) Cisco ISE
6 9 (2.36%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.83%) DHCP
7 7 (1.83%) DNS
8 5 (1.31%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.52%) LAN
9 2 (0.52%) SNMP
9 2 (0.52%) WAN
9 2 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.52%) Wireless
9 2 (0.52%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.26%) Internet
10 1 (0.26%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (4.71%) Big Data
3 4 (1.05%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.52%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.26%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (2.36%) JIRA
2 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.26%) Git
3 1 (0.26%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 111 (29.06%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (10.73%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.24%) Finance
5 18 (4.71%) Legal
6 15 (3.93%) Manufacturing
6 15 (3.93%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.88%) Military
8 5 (1.31%) Banking
9 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.52%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (0.52%) Police
11 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.26%) Electronics
11 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.26%) Law
11 1 (0.26%) Marketing
11 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.26%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 124 (32.46%) Analyst
2 58 (15.18%) SOC Analyst
3 36 (9.42%) Architect
4 35 (9.16%) Security Engineer
5 29 (7.59%) Network Architect
6 28 (7.33%) Consultant
6 28 (7.33%) Lead
7 26 (6.81%) Security Analyst
8 25 (6.54%) Senior
9 23 (6.02%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
10 21 (5.50%) SIEM Engineer
11 19 (4.97%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 18 (4.71%) Cyber Threat Analyst
12 18 (4.71%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
12 18 (4.71%) SOC Engineer
13 15 (3.93%) Cyber Defence Analyst
14 13 (3.40%) SIEM Consultant
15 12 (3.14%) Security Consultant
16 11 (2.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 11 (2.88%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.81%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (4.71%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (1.31%) Kafka
4 3 (0.79%) OpenID
5 2 (0.52%) OAuth
5 2 (0.52%) Regular Expression
5 2 (0.52%) SAML
6 1 (0.26%) .NET
6 1 (0.26%) Ajax
6 1 (0.26%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.26%) CSS
6 1 (0.26%) HTML
6 1 (0.26%) J2EE
6 1 (0.26%) JSON
6 1 (0.26%) JWT
6 1 (0.26%) OLE
6 1 (0.26%) SOAP
6 1 (0.26%) Web Services
6 1 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (26.96%) Cyber Defence
2 99 (25.92%) Cyber Threat
3 95 (24.87%) Management Information System
4 76 (19.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 59 (15.45%) Security Operations Centre
6 26 (6.81%) CSOC
7 23 (6.02%) Distributed Applications
8 12 (3.14%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (3.14%) Security Posture
9 11 (2.88%) Operational Technology
10 9 (2.36%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.09%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.57%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.31%) PKI
13 5 (1.31%) SCADA
14 4 (1.05%) Client/Server
15 3 (0.79%) Cyberattack
15 3 (0.79%) Onboarding
16 2 (0.52%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 74 (19.37%) Linux
2 64 (16.75%) Windows
3 23 (6.02%) Unix
4 21 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (4.19%) Android
5 16 (4.19%) Apple iOS
6 15 (3.93%) Windows Server
7 11 (2.88%) Mac OS X
7 11 (2.88%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.05%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (60.73%) Cybersecurity
2 143 (37.43%) Incident Response
3 132 (34.55%) Security Operations
4 107 (28.01%) Information Security
4 107 (28.01%) Use Case
5 98 (25.65%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 94 (24.61%) Incident Management
7 89 (23.30%) SOAR
8 83 (21.73%) Threat Intelligence
9 78 (20.42%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 70 (18.32%) Vulnerability Management
11 68 (17.80%) Protective Monitoring
12 67 (17.54%) Mentoring
13 54 (14.14%) Analytics
14 52 (13.61%) Root Cause Analysis
15 50 (13.09%) Security Architecture
16 48 (12.57%) Case Management
17 45 (11.78%) CRM
18 34 (8.90%) Network Management
19 30 (7.85%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 16 (4.19%) PowerShell
2 12 (3.14%) C#
3 8 (2.09%) Java
3 8 (2.09%) R
4 6 (1.57%) Python
5 4 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (1.05%) VBScript
6 3 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 273 (71.47%) Security Cleared
2 203 (53.14%) DV Cleared
3 54 (14.14%) SC Cleared
4 40 (10.47%) Degree
5 27 (7.07%) SANS
6 22 (5.76%) CISSP
7 9 (2.36%) CISM
8 6 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.31%) CCNA
9 5 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.79%) CCIE
10 3 (0.79%) CCNP
10 3 (0.79%) CCSA
10 3 (0.79%) CEH
11 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.52%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.26%) GCED
12 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (26.18%) NIST
2 62 (16.23%) NIST 800
3 36 (9.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (4.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 16 (4.19%) GDPR
6 11 (2.88%) HIPAA
7 10 (2.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (2.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 7 (1.83%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (1.31%) NCSC
11 3 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.79%) GRC
12 2 (0.52%) COBIT
12 2 (0.52%) ISA99
13 1 (0.26%) GPG13
System Software
1 22 (5.76%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.36%) iptables
4 7 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.83%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.52%) Docker
5 2 (0.52%) XenApp
6 1 (0.26%) Firmware
6 1 (0.26%) Snort
Systems Management
1 25 (6.54%) Kibana
2 24 (6.28%) logstash
3 8 (2.09%) SCCM
4 7 (1.83%) vCenter Server
5 6 (1.57%) Terraform
6 4 (1.05%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (0.79%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 3 (0.79%) Kubernetes
7 3 (0.79%) Nessus
7 3 (0.79%) QRadar
8 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.52%) Nagios
8 2 (0.52%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.52%) OpenView
9 1 (0.26%) Ansible
9 1 (0.26%) Puppet
9 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 112 (29.32%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.33%) Splunk
3 24 (6.28%) Qualys
4 23 (6.02%) LogRhythm
5 20 (5.24%) Cisco
6 17 (4.45%) Red Hat
7 16 (4.19%) Forcepoint
7 16 (4.19%) Varonis
8 14 (3.66%) ArcSight
9 13 (3.40%) VMware
10 12 (3.14%) Tanium
11 7 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (1.83%) F5
11 7 (1.83%) Veeam
12 6 (1.57%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.31%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.31%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.31%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.05%) Palo Alto
15 3 (0.79%) AlgoSec