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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 300 251
Rank change year-on-year -42 -49 +117
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 410 794 1,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.84% 0.93% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.08% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 314 665 643
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,125 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +2.36% -2.31%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £91,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £63,466 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% -2.36% -

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 46,063 73,227 85,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.14% 85.42% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,601 53,820 50,635
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,250 £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 £76,000 £73,410 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 15 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 15 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 -13 181 £75,000 +11.11% 261
South East +16 64 £50,000 -13.04% 156
Midlands +87 60 £47,500 -9.52% 40
North of England -42 42 £58,000 +7.91% 86
West Midlands +71 39 £55,000 +10.55% 29
North West -29 30 £75,000 +59.57% 45
East of England +34 29 £61,500 -5.38% 47
East Midlands +44 21 £45,000 -14.29% 10
South West +55 14 £49,615 -42.48% 31
Yorkshire +11 8 £51,250 -14.58% 35
North East +23 4 £57,500 +35.29% 7
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 7 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.73%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 139 (33.90%) Azure
2 70 (17.07%) Azure Sentinel
3 53 (12.93%) AWS
4 42 (10.24%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (7.56%) GCP
6 23 (5.61%) Entra ID
7 19 (4.63%) SaaS
8 14 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (2.93%) IaaS
9 12 (2.93%) PaaS
10 10 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.71%) Serverless
13 6 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (0.98%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 3 (0.73%) Azure App Service
15 3 (0.73%) Azure Functions
15 3 (0.73%) Cloudflare
15 3 (0.73%) IBM Cloud
15 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 210 (51.22%) Firewall
2 87 (21.22%) Network Security
3 62 (15.12%) Intrusion Detection
4 55 (13.41%) VPN
5 29 (7.07%) TCP/IP
6 26 (6.34%) DNS
6 26 (6.34%) WAN
7 17 (4.15%) LAN
8 14 (3.41%) Internet
9 12 (2.93%) SAN
9 12 (2.93%) SMTP
10 11 (2.68%) DHCP
10 11 (2.68%) HTTP
11 9 (2.20%) FTP
11 9 (2.20%) Wireshark
12 8 (1.95%) SD-WAN
13 7 (1.71%) BGP
13 7 (1.71%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (1.71%) OSPF
13 7 (1.71%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.71%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.24%) DB2
3 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.24%) Power BI
3 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (1.95%) Burp Suite
2 4 (0.98%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.73%) JIRA
4 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.24%) Git
4 1 (0.24%) GitLab
4 1 (0.24%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.24%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.24%) Postman
4 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
General
1 146 (35.61%) Social Skills
2 78 (19.02%) Finance
3 66 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.56%) Legal
5 29 (7.07%) Law
6 24 (5.85%) Retail
7 16 (3.90%) Banking
7 16 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.93%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.68%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.44%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.95%) Mandarin Language
12 7 (1.71%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.71%) Aviation
12 7 (1.71%) Electronics
13 6 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.22%) Front Office
15 4 (0.98%) Marketing
16 3 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 156 (38.05%) Analyst
2 98 (23.90%) Security Analyst
3 67 (16.34%) Senior
4 54 (13.17%) SOC Analyst
5 52 (12.68%) Security Engineer
6 49 (11.95%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 47 (11.46%) Lead
8 39 (9.51%) Senior Analyst
9 31 (7.56%) Architect
10 28 (6.83%) Security Architect
11 22 (5.37%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 21 (5.12%) SOC Engineer
13 18 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (4.15%) Security Manager
15 16 (3.90%) Operations Analyst
16 15 (3.66%) SIEM Analyst
17 14 (3.41%) Information Analyst
17 14 (3.41%) Information Security Analyst
17 14 (3.41%) Network Engineer
18 13 (3.17%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.90%) LDAP
2 9 (2.20%) SAML
3 6 (1.46%) OAuth
3 6 (1.46%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.22%) OpenID
5 3 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.49%) REST
6 2 (0.49%) YAML
7 1 (0.24%) boto
7 1 (0.24%) JSON
7 1 (0.24%) JWT
7 1 (0.24%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 100 (24.39%) Management Information System
2 89 (21.71%) Security Posture
3 56 (13.66%) Security Operations Centre
4 55 (13.41%) Cyber Threat
5 23 (5.61%) PKI
6 17 (4.15%) Hedge funds
6 17 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (3.90%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.41%) Social Media
8 14 (3.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 13 (3.17%) Client/Server
10 12 (2.93%) Cyber Defence
11 10 (2.44%) CSOC
11 10 (2.44%) Private Cloud
12 9 (2.20%) Data Centre
12 9 (2.20%) Podcast
12 9 (2.20%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 6 (1.46%) Cloud Native
14 6 (1.46%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 120 (29.27%) Windows
2 50 (12.20%) Linux
3 22 (5.37%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.41%) Windows Vista
5 7 (1.71%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.46%) Android
7 5 (1.22%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.73%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.49%) Unix
10 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (63.90%) Cybersecurity
2 214 (52.20%) Incident Response
3 167 (40.73%) Information Security
4 152 (37.07%) Security Operations
5 113 (27.56%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (27.32%) Vulnerability Management
7 75 (18.29%) Cloud Security
8 73 (17.80%) Threat Intelligence
9 70 (17.07%) Risk Management
10 67 (16.34%) Data Loss Prevention
11 55 (13.41%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 54 (13.17%) Security Monitoring
12 54 (13.17%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 50 (12.20%) Computer Science
13 50 (12.20%) Incident Management
14 49 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 45 (10.98%) DevOps
15 45 (10.98%) Identity Access Management
15 45 (10.98%) Penetration Testing
16 40 (9.76%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 88 (21.46%) PowerShell
2 75 (18.29%) Python
3 40 (9.76%) Kusto Query Language
4 33 (8.05%) Bash
5 13 (3.17%) C#
6 8 (1.95%) Perl
7 7 (1.71%) SQL
8 6 (1.46%) C++
9 4 (0.98%) Go
10 3 (0.73%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.49%) Bicep
11 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.24%) Groovy
12 1 (0.24%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 122 (29.76%) CISSP
2 116 (28.29%) Degree
3 88 (21.46%) Security Cleared
4 72 (17.56%) CISM
5 63 (15.37%) SC Cleared
6 59 (14.39%) CEH
6 59 (14.39%) CompTIA Security+
7 51 (12.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (11.22%) GCIH
9 35 (8.54%) GCIA
10 34 (8.29%) DV Cleared
10 34 (8.29%) OSCP
11 31 (7.56%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (6.34%) CISA
13 24 (5.85%) SANS
14 23 (5.61%) Master's Degree
15 17 (4.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 16 (3.90%) GIAC
17 15 (3.66%) DBS Check
18 14 (3.41%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (31.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 103 (25.12%) NIST
3 67 (16.34%) GDPR
4 45 (10.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 28 (6.83%) PCI DSS
6 23 (5.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 21 (5.12%) SLA
8 16 (3.90%) COBIT
8 16 (3.90%) NCSC
9 12 (2.93%) HIPAA
10 9 (2.20%) SOC 2
11 7 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (1.46%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.98%) GRC
14 3 (0.73%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
16 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
16 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (10.49%) Active Directory
2 20 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.39%) Docker
4 7 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.98%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.24%) Snort
Systems Management
1 44 (10.73%) QRadar
2 19 (4.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (3.66%) Terraform
4 12 (2.93%) Ansible
5 11 (2.68%) Nessus
6 10 (2.44%) Kubernetes
7 9 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.46%) ArcSight ESM
8 6 (1.46%) CSIRT
9 5 (1.22%) CASB
9 5 (1.22%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.22%) Puppet
10 4 (0.98%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.98%) Graylog
10 4 (0.98%) ZENworks
11 3 (0.73%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.73%) SCCM
12 2 (0.49%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.49%) SCOM
13 1 (0.24%) Grafana
Vendors
1 162 (39.51%) Microsoft
2 81 (19.76%) Splunk
3 45 (10.98%) VMware
4 34 (8.29%) Cisco
5 25 (6.10%) Tenable
6 23 (5.61%) CrowdStrike
7 20 (4.88%) Juniper
8 18 (4.39%) Palo Alto
9 14 (3.41%) McAfee
10 11 (2.68%) AlienVault
11 10 (2.44%) ArcSight
11 10 (2.44%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.95%) Dell
12 8 (1.95%) Google
13 7 (1.71%) CheckPoint
13 7 (1.71%) Qualys
14 6 (1.46%) LogLogic
14 6 (1.46%) LogRhythm
15 5 (1.22%) Meraki
15 5 (1.22%) SolarWinds