SIEM Engineer Job Trends in the East of England

SIEM Engineer
England > East of England

The median SIEM Engineer salary in the East of England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 - 206
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 1 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.016% - 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% - 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £65,000
75th Percentile £82,500 - £68,750
90th Percentile - - £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year - -13.73% -3.77%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 5,864 2,672 5,918
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 93.92% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,879 1,399 4,527
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £25,809
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,967 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +7.30% -13.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,100 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,777
% change year-on-year -4.35% +8.95% -13.20%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'SIEM Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

SIEM Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

SIEM Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for SIEM Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for SIEM Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

SIEM Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 26 May 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire - 1 £80,000 - 4
SIEM Engineer
England

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 26 May 2026, SIEM Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East of England region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk