SIEM Job Trends in Bristol

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SIEM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 101 121
Rank change year-on-year +20 +20 +19
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 14 7 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.69% 0.49% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.56% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 7
10th Percentile £47,500 £49,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,325 £58,125 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +36.36% -
75th Percentile £84,375 £87,500 £81,000
90th Percentile £85,700 £91,750 £95,000
South West median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% +13.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

SIEM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,315 1,249 1,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 64.68% 88.08% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 988 673 1,316
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.75% +8.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,886 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,050 £88,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,720 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.62% +4.23% +2.94%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SIEM relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SIEM job vacancy trend in Bristol

SIEM
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SIEM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SIEM

SIEM
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SIEM in Bristol

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Datadog
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.14%) IaaS
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
1 6 (42.86%) Network Security
2 4 (28.57%) VPN
3 2 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) CircleCI
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Security Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Principal Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Security Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Information Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Information Security Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
5 1 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Threat Hunter
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) YubiKey
2 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
3 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (14.29%) Operational Technology
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.14%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Incident Response
2 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (42.86%) Security Operations
3 6 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 5 (35.71%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (35.71%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Information Security
6 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (21.43%) Threat Intelligence
7 2 (14.29%) Agile
7 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
7 2 (14.29%) Forensic Analysis
7 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (14.29%) Security Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) CEH
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) CISSP
4 2 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (7.14%) CCSP
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (7.14%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (7.14%) GIAC
5 1 (7.14%) GREM
5 1 (7.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (7.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (7.14%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (57.14%) NIST
2 7 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (14.29%) GDPR
3 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
4 1 (7.14%) COBIT
4 1 (7.14%) NIST 800
4 1 (7.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
1 2 (14.29%) WSUS
2 1 (7.14%) CASB
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Incident Response Team
2 1 (7.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Tenable
3 3 (21.43%) Splunk
4 2 (14.29%) Qualys
4 2 (14.29%) VMware
5 1 (7.14%) CrowdStrike