SIEM Job Trends in Hertfordshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring SIEM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 82 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 -48 +82
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 6 25 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.37% 1.99% 5.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 2.16% 5.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3 17 36
10th Percentile £38,650 £52,000 £56,875
25th Percentile £38,875 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £61,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.15% -5.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £56,000 £64,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £64,550 £73,000 -
East of England median annual salary £68,500 £61,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.38% -5.38% +40.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,143 1,158 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 70.47% 91.98% 89.11%
Number of salaries quoted 641 453 485
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,350 £79,800
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

SIEM
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SIEM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SIEM

SIEM
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SIEM in Hertfordshire

SIEM
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Hatfield - 3 - -
SIEM
East of England

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) FTP
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) SMTP
3 1 (16.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Security Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Information Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Information Security Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Email Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Security Incident Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Life Science
2 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) CSOC
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) ISMS
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Runbook
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Network Packet Capture
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CompTIA CySA+
1 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (33.33%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow