Event Correlation Contracts

Event Correlation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Event Correlation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Event Correlation 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 494 568 -
Rank change year-on-year +74 - -
Contract jobs citing Event Correlation 26 14 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.032% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.037% -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 0
10th Percentile £485 £442 -
25th Percentile £520 £609 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% - -
75th Percentile £575 £825 -
90th Percentile £613 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £551 £800 -
% change year-on-year -31.19% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Event Correlation 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Event Correlation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Event Correlation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Event Correlation in the UK

Event Correlation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Event Correlation.

Daily rate trend for Event Correlation in the UK

Event Correlation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event Correlation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Event Correlation in the UK

Event Correlation
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Event Correlation within the UK 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
England +70 25 £550 -16.03% 6
UK excluding London +68 14 £551 -31.19% 7
Work from Home +52 14 £551 -18.37%
Midlands +26 8 £551 -12.02% 2
West Midlands +18 8 £551 -12.02% 2
London +41 6 £475 +18.75%
South East +45 4 £525 -34.38% 1
South West +46 1 £550 -10.93% 2
Scotland - 1 - - 2

Event Correlation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (26.92%) Azure
1 7 (26.92%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Network Security
1 3 (11.54%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (11.54%) SNMP
1 3 (11.54%) SSH
1 3 (11.54%) Telnet
1 3 (11.54%) Wireshark
2 1 (3.85%) DSLAM
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) GitLab
2 2 (7.69%) Git
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
1 7 (26.92%) Telecoms
2 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Electronics
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 4 (15.38%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Splunk Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Developer
2 3 (11.54%) Network Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Senior
3 2 (7.69%) Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) SOC Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) Audit Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) Fibre Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Product Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Specialist
4 1 (3.85%) Security Specialist
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Security Specialist
4 1 (3.85%) SIEM Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) JSON
1 3 (11.54%) XML
2 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) CSOC
2 6 (23.08%) Onboarding
3 3 (11.54%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (11.54%) Replication
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 15 (57.69%) Linux
2 12 (46.15%) Windows
3 10 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (38.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (92.31%) SIEM
2 8 (30.77%) Observability
3 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (23.08%) Client Onboarding
4 6 (23.08%) Cloud Security
4 6 (23.08%) Incident Response
4 6 (23.08%) Predictive Analysis
4 6 (23.08%) Threat Detection
4 6 (23.08%) Threat Intelligence
5 5 (19.23%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 5 (19.23%) Security Operations
6 4 (15.38%) Analytics
6 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
6 4 (15.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 4 (15.38%) Programme Management
6 4 (15.38%) SOAR
6 4 (15.38%) Threat Analysis
7 3 (11.54%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.54%) Java
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) CISSP
3 3 (11.54%) GCIH
4 2 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (7.69%) GCFA
5 1 (3.85%) CEH
5 1 (3.85%) CISA
5 1 (3.85%) CISM
5 1 (3.85%) GCIA
5 1 (3.85%) GIAC
5 1 (3.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (3.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (15.38%) NIST
2 3 (11.54%) SLA
3 2 (7.69%) GDPR
4 1 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.85%) NIST 800
4 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) FreeRADIUS
1 3 (11.54%) iptables
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Ansible
1 3 (11.54%) Cacti
1 3 (11.54%) Grafana
1 3 (11.54%) Nagios
1 3 (11.54%) Netcool
1 3 (11.54%) Proxmox
1 3 (11.54%) Puppet
1 3 (11.54%) ZABBIX
2 2 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Graylog
3 1 (3.85%) logstash
3 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) QRadar
Vendors
1 20 (76.92%) Splunk
2 11 (42.31%) Cisco
2 11 (42.31%) Palo Alto
3 10 (38.46%) F5
3 10 (38.46%) Fortinet
3 10 (38.46%) Red Hat
3 10 (38.46%) ServiceNow
3 10 (38.46%) SolarWinds
4 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 4 (15.38%) SAP
5 3 (11.54%) Nokia
5 3 (11.54%) VMware
6 2 (7.69%) ArcSight
7 1 (3.85%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (3.85%) Huawei
7 1 (3.85%) Juniper