SIEM Job Trends in the East of England

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring SIEM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 144 81
Rank change year-on-year -2 -63 +119
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 12 37 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.29% 1.03% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 1.19% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9 24 48
10th Percentile £39,100 £47,975 £55,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £61,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.38% -5.38% +40.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,688 £70,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £68,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year +4.62% +1.56% +0.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,141 3,118 1,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 75.74% 86.71% 88.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,831 1,242 1,366
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,625 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in the East of England

SIEM
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SIEM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SIEM

SIEM
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the East of England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SIEM in the East of England

SIEM
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 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -3 6 £40,500 -34.15% 15
Cambridgeshire +8 5 £80,000 +8.11% 1
Bedfordshire +33 1 £59,500 - 1
SIEM
England

SIEM
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) Datadog
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
1 3 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) FTP
3 1 (8.33%) HTTP
3 1 (8.33%) NGFW
3 1 (8.33%) SMTP
3 1 (8.33%) SSL
3 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Security Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Information Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Information Security Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Email Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Firewall Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Security Incident Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Security Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) SIEM Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Associate Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 3 (25.00%) Life Science
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) CSOC
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (58.33%) Incident Response
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Security Operations
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Information Security
4 4 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (25.00%) ISMS
5 3 (25.00%) Runbook
5 3 (25.00%) SOAR
5 3 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Malware Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Offensive Security
6 2 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (16.67%) Threat Detection
6 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (16.67%) CEH
2 2 (16.67%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (16.67%) GSEC
3 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CISA
3 1 (8.33%) CISM
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) GIAC
3 1 (8.33%) GREM
3 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (8.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) GDPR
1 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Incident Response Team
1 1 (8.33%) CSIRT
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) QRadar
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk