Event Correlation Contracts

Event Correlation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Event Correlation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Event Correlation over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 684 842
Rank change year-on-year +119 +158 -133
Contract jobs citing Event Correlation 11 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.007% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.008% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 10
10th Percentile £390 £593 £260
25th Percentile £663 £593 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £593 £603
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% -1.54% -15.44%
75th Percentile £825 £602 £775
90th Percentile - £608 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £800 £593 £688
% change year-on-year +34.85% -13.71% -11.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Event Correlation 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,593 50,587 79,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.80% 89.68% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,580 35,017 55,732
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,483 1,675 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Event Correlation in the UK

Event Correlation
Top 5 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 25 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
England +98 9 £800 +34.85% 5
UK excluding London +58 5 £800 +34.85% 3
South East - 5 £800 - 2
London - 4 £538 - 4
Work from Home +118 3 £675 +13.80% 4

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Datadog
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) SNMP
2 1 (9.09%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Network Architect
3 2 (18.18%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Roadmaps
2 5 (45.45%) Configuration Management
2 5 (45.45%) Service Management
2 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (45.45%) Strategic Roadmap
3 4 (36.36%) Observability
3 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Business Case
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Kanban
4 3 (27.27%) Load Balancing
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) SIEM
4 3 (27.27%) Threat Detection
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CEH
1 2 (18.18%) CISSP
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) GIAC
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kibana
1 1 (9.09%) logstash
1 1 (9.09%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) ServiceNow
2 4 (36.36%) Splunk
3 3 (27.27%) BigPanda
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 1 (9.09%) ArcSight
5 1 (9.09%) IBM