SIEM Jobs in England

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring SIEM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SIEM over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 301 244
Rank change year-on-year -48 -57 +141
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 401 805 1,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.82% 0.90% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.07% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 292 673 633
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,550 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,618
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +3.80% -3.66%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £64,050
% change year-on-year -4.62% +1.48% -1.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SIEM in England

SIEM
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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 -14 181 £75,000 +7.14% 206
South East +7 61 £50,000 -13.04% 498
Midlands +103 50 £49,000 -6.67% 316
North of England -42 46 £57,500 +1.77% 372
West Midlands +72 34 £55,000 -5.14% 166
East of England +44 31 £61,500 -1.60% 298
North West -25 24 £72,500 +54.26% 174
East Midlands +49 16 £45,000 -14.29% 128
Yorkshire +12 16 £50,000 -20.00% 153
South West +44 15 £51,729 -42.52% 212
North East +30 6 £57,500 +35.29% 45
SIEM
UK

SIEM
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 137 (34.16%) Azure
2 61 (15.21%) Azure Sentinel
3 59 (14.71%) AWS
4 43 (10.72%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (7.98%) GCP
6 24 (5.99%) Entra ID
7 21 (5.24%) SaaS
8 12 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (2.99%) IaaS
9 11 (2.74%) PaaS
10 9 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (2.24%) Serverless
11 8 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 5 (1.25%) Azure App Service
13 5 (1.25%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.00%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (1.00%) Rubrik
15 3 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 222 (55.36%) Firewall
2 96 (23.94%) Network Security
3 67 (16.71%) VPN
4 61 (15.21%) Intrusion Detection
5 34 (8.48%) TCP/IP
6 30 (7.48%) WAN
7 21 (5.24%) DNS
7 21 (5.24%) LAN
8 14 (3.49%) DHCP
8 14 (3.49%) HTTP
8 14 (3.49%) Internet
8 14 (3.49%) SMTP
9 13 (3.24%) SAN
10 12 (2.99%) FTP
11 10 (2.49%) Wireshark
12 8 (2.00%) BGP
12 8 (2.00%) OSPF
12 8 (2.00%) SD-WAN
13 7 (1.75%) Spanning Tree
14 6 (1.50%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.25%) DB2
4 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.25%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.25%) Looker
4 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (2.00%) Burp Suite
2 5 (1.25%) JIRA
3 4 (1.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.50%) GitLab
5 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.25%) Git
5 1 (0.25%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.25%) Postman
5 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
General
1 129 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 68 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
2 68 (16.96%) Finance
3 27 (6.73%) Legal
4 21 (5.24%) Retail
5 18 (4.49%) Law
6 17 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.24%) Banking
8 10 (2.49%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.49%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.49%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.00%) Mandarin Language
9 8 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.75%) Aviation
11 6 (1.50%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Front Office
13 4 (1.00%) Marketing
13 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 144 (35.91%) Analyst
2 95 (23.69%) Security Analyst
3 59 (14.71%) Senior
4 53 (13.22%) Security Engineer
5 49 (12.22%) SOC Analyst
6 44 (10.97%) Lead
7 42 (10.47%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 29 (7.23%) Senior Analyst
9 23 (5.74%) Architect
10 20 (4.99%) Security Architect
11 19 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (4.74%) Security Specialist
11 19 (4.74%) SOC Engineer
12 17 (4.24%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 15 (3.74%) Network Engineer
13 15 (3.74%) SIEM Analyst
14 14 (3.49%) Information Analyst
14 14 (3.49%) Information Security Analyst
15 13 (3.24%) Operations Analyst
15 13 (3.24%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.74%) LDAP
2 10 (2.49%) SAML
3 6 (1.50%) OAuth
3 6 (1.50%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.25%) OpenID
5 2 (0.50%) YAML
6 1 (0.25%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.25%) boto
6 1 (0.25%) CSS
6 1 (0.25%) HTML
6 1 (0.25%) JSON
6 1 (0.25%) JWT
6 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 87 (21.70%) Management Information System
2 81 (20.20%) Security Posture
3 68 (16.96%) Security Operations Centre
4 50 (12.47%) Cyber Threat
5 26 (6.48%) PKI
6 17 (4.24%) Hedge funds
7 14 (3.49%) Cyber Defence
8 13 (3.24%) Client/Server
9 12 (2.99%) Data Centre
10 10 (2.49%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.49%) Private Cloud
11 9 (2.24%) Podcast
11 9 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.75%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.75%) Social Media
12 7 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 6 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.50%) Cyberattack
13 6 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 6 (1.50%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 120 (29.93%) Windows
2 49 (12.22%) Linux
3 24 (5.99%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.75%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.75%) Windows Vista
5 6 (1.50%) Android
6 5 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.75%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.75%) Unix
9 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (60.35%) Cybersecurity
2 214 (53.37%) Incident Response
3 148 (36.91%) Security Operations
4 141 (35.16%) Information Security
5 107 (26.68%) Vulnerability Management
6 103 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (16.46%) Cloud Security
8 63 (15.71%) Data Loss Prevention
9 62 (15.46%) Threat Intelligence
10 59 (14.71%) Risk Management
11 57 (14.21%) Incident Management
12 56 (13.97%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 51 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 51 (12.72%) Identity Access Management
14 49 (12.22%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 46 (11.47%) Penetration Testing
16 44 (10.97%) Security Monitoring
16 44 (10.97%) SOAR
17 43 (10.72%) DevOps
18 39 (9.73%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 88 (21.95%) PowerShell
2 77 (19.20%) Python
3 36 (8.98%) Bash
4 35 (8.73%) Kusto Query Language
5 10 (2.49%) C#
6 9 (2.24%) Perl
7 8 (2.00%) SQL
8 6 (1.50%) C++
9 4 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.50%) Bicep
10 2 (0.50%) Go
10 2 (0.50%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.25%) Groovy
11 1 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 101 (25.19%) Degree
2 99 (24.69%) CISSP
3 91 (22.69%) Security Cleared
4 56 (13.97%) CISM
4 56 (13.97%) SC Cleared
5 54 (13.47%) CEH
6 52 (12.97%) CompTIA Security+
7 45 (11.22%) GCIH
8 41 (10.22%) DV Cleared
9 39 (9.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 36 (8.98%) OSCP
11 34 (8.48%) GCIA
12 24 (5.99%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (5.24%) SANS
14 16 (3.99%) Master's Degree
15 15 (3.74%) CompTIA CySA+
16 14 (3.49%) CISA
16 14 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
17 12 (2.99%) GIAC
18 11 (2.74%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (30.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 102 (25.44%) NIST
3 64 (15.96%) GDPR
4 43 (10.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 27 (6.73%) PCI DSS
6 23 (5.74%) SLA
7 22 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 14 (3.49%) HIPAA
9 13 (3.24%) COBIT
10 10 (2.49%) NCSC
11 8 (2.00%) SOC 2
12 6 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (1.50%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.25%) GRC
14 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (11.47%) Active Directory
2 21 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.49%) Docker
4 5 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 4 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) Snort
7 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (10.22%) QRadar
2 18 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (4.24%) Terraform
4 13 (3.24%) Ansible
5 12 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (2.74%) Kubernetes
7 9 (2.24%) Nessus
8 6 (1.50%) ArcSight ESM
9 5 (1.25%) CSIRT
9 5 (1.25%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.25%) Puppet
10 4 (1.00%) CASB
10 4 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.00%) VxRail
10 4 (1.00%) ZENworks
11 3 (0.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (0.50%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.50%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.50%) SCCM
12 2 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 172 (42.89%) Microsoft
2 95 (23.69%) Splunk
3 41 (10.22%) VMware
4 34 (8.48%) Cisco
5 24 (5.99%) CrowdStrike
6 21 (5.24%) Juniper
7 17 (4.24%) Tenable
8 16 (3.99%) Palo Alto
9 13 (3.24%) McAfee
10 11 (2.74%) AlienVault
11 9 (2.24%) ArcSight
11 9 (2.24%) Dell
11 9 (2.24%) Sophos
12 8 (2.00%) Google
13 6 (1.50%) LogLogic
14 5 (1.25%) IBM
14 5 (1.25%) Meraki
14 5 (1.25%) SolarWinds
14 5 (1.25%) Tanium
14 5 (1.25%) Zscaler