SIEM Job Trends in Cardiff

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring SIEM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 53 43
Rank change year-on-year +16 -10 +34
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 1 4 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.30% 0.75% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.02% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - - £40,650
25th Percentile £36,750 £46,713 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £50,309 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.47% +8.78% -18.86%
75th Percentile £40,250 £53,904 £51,875
90th Percentile - - £60,875
South Wales median annual salary £40,000 £50,309 £47,000
% change year-on-year -20.49% +7.04% -18.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 280 392 348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 83.58% 73.13% 96.67%
Number of salaries quoted 198 267 300
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,300 £32,986
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,537 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.07% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -0.16%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in Cardiff

SIEM
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing SIEM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing SIEM

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) VMware