SIEM Engineer Jobs in England

SIEM Engineer
UK > England

The median SIEM Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 667 805 915
Rank change year-on-year +138 +110 +176
Permanent jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 4 26 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.030% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.032% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 4 26 11
10th Percentile - £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £99,000 £81,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 43,417 81,048 82,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 94.49% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24,595 60,528 52,373
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SIEM Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in England

SIEM Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SIEM Engineer in England.

Salary trend for SIEM Engineer in England

SIEM Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SIEM Engineer in England

SIEM Engineer
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
London +111 2 £92,500 +8.82% 2
South East +90 1 £55,000 - 3
North of England +48 1 £55,000 -15.38% 1
North West - 1 £55,000 - 1
SIEM Engineer
UK

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, SIEM Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) SLA
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) AlienVault
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) CompTIA CySA+
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Equities
4 1 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) AWS

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (50.00%) AlienVault
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft