SIEM Jobs in London

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 224 210 263
Rank change year-on-year -14 +53 +181
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 181 366 429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.43% 1.53% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.69% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 133 302 306
10th Percentile £55,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -12.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £119,750 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,618
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.80% -3.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,216 21,652 31,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.26% 90.32% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,929 15,871 22,511
10th Percentile £41,700 £37,500 £42,789
25th Percentile £55,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,055
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in London

SIEM
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for SIEM in London

SIEM
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for SIEM in London

SIEM
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the London 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
Central London -6 30 £80,000 +18.52% 19
South London +6 7 £65,000 -18.75% 4
SIEM
England

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 67 (37.02%) Azure
2 32 (17.68%) AWS
3 27 (14.92%) GCP
4 25 (13.81%) Azure Sentinel
5 16 (8.84%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (6.63%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (6.63%) Entra ID
7 9 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.97%) Serverless
8 8 (4.42%) SaaS
9 6 (3.31%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 5 (2.76%) Azure App Service
10 5 (2.76%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.21%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (2.21%) PaaS
11 4 (2.21%) Rubrik
12 3 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.66%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 98 (54.14%) Firewall
2 51 (28.18%) Network Security
3 27 (14.92%) VPN
4 15 (8.29%) Intrusion Detection
5 11 (6.08%) SAN
6 8 (4.42%) BGP
6 8 (4.42%) DNS
6 8 (4.42%) WAN
6 8 (4.42%) Wireshark
7 7 (3.87%) OSPF
7 7 (3.87%) Spanning Tree
8 5 (2.76%) Kerberos
8 5 (2.76%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.21%) Unified Communications
10 3 (1.66%) DKIM
10 3 (1.66%) DMARC
11 2 (1.10%) Internet
11 2 (1.10%) NAS
11 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
1 1 (0.55%) Looker
1 1 (0.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (4.42%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
2 1 (0.55%) Git
2 1 (0.55%) GitLab
2 1 (0.55%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.55%) JIRA
2 1 (0.55%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.55%) Postman
2 1 (0.55%) REST Assured
2 1 (0.55%) SoapUI
General
1 50 (27.62%) Finance
2 48 (26.52%) Social Skills
3 24 (13.26%) Legal
4 22 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.73%) Retail
6 13 (7.18%) Banking
6 13 (7.18%) Law
7 8 (4.42%) Mandarin Language
8 7 (3.87%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.76%) Front Office
9 5 (2.76%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.66%) Games
10 3 (1.66%) Marketing
11 2 (1.10%) Electronics
11 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.10%) Military
12 1 (0.55%) Local Government
12 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (39.78%) Analyst
2 57 (31.49%) Security Analyst
3 24 (13.26%) Senior
4 23 (12.71%) Security Engineer
5 19 (10.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 14 (7.73%) SIEM Analyst
7 13 (7.18%) Information Analyst
7 13 (7.18%) Information Security Analyst
8 11 (6.08%) Incident Analyst
8 11 (6.08%) Operations Analyst
8 11 (6.08%) Security Incident Analyst
8 11 (6.08%) Security Operations Analyst
9 10 (5.52%) CISSP Analyst
10 9 (4.97%) Junior
10 9 (4.97%) Junior Analyst
10 9 (4.97%) Junior Operations Analyst
10 9 (4.97%) Junior Security Analyst
10 9 (4.97%) Lead
10 9 (4.97%) Network Engineer
10 9 (4.97%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.31%) OAuth
1 6 (3.31%) SailPoint
2 5 (2.76%) LDAP
2 5 (2.76%) OpenID
2 5 (2.76%) SAML
3 2 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.10%) YAML
4 1 (0.55%) boto
4 1 (0.55%) CSS
4 1 (0.55%) HTML
4 1 (0.55%) JWT
4 1 (0.55%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 42 (23.20%) Security Posture
2 38 (20.99%) Management Information System
3 20 (11.05%) Cyber Threat
4 17 (9.39%) Hedge funds
5 16 (8.84%) PKI
6 14 (7.73%) Security Operations Centre
7 9 (4.97%) Onboarding
7 9 (4.97%) Podcast
8 6 (3.31%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.31%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.76%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.76%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.21%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.66%) CSOC
11 3 (1.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 3 (1.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.66%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.10%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 52 (28.73%) Windows
2 31 (17.13%) Linux
3 15 (8.29%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.66%) Unix
5 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (60.77%) Cybersecurity
2 92 (50.83%) Incident Response
3 79 (43.65%) Information Security
4 60 (33.15%) Vulnerability Management
5 59 (32.60%) Security Operations
6 49 (27.07%) Data Loss Prevention
7 35 (19.34%) DevOps
7 35 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (18.78%) Identity Access Management
9 32 (17.68%) Risk Management
10 27 (14.92%) Cloud Security
11 26 (14.36%) Penetration Testing
12 25 (13.81%) Data Security
12 25 (13.81%) Threat Intelligence
13 24 (13.26%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 22 (12.15%) Security Management
14 22 (12.15%) Security Monitoring
15 21 (11.60%) Disaster Recovery
16 19 (10.50%) Incident Management
16 19 (10.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 51 (28.18%) PowerShell
2 45 (24.86%) Python
3 9 (4.97%) Bash
4 7 (3.87%) SQL
5 5 (2.76%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.10%) Bicep
6 2 (1.10%) Go
6 2 (1.10%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.10%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 47 (25.97%) CISSP
2 39 (21.55%) Degree
3 35 (19.34%) GCIH
4 30 (16.57%) GCIA
4 30 (16.57%) OSCP
5 29 (16.02%) CEH
6 28 (15.47%) CompTIA Security+
7 22 (12.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (10.50%) Security Cleared
9 17 (9.39%) CISM
10 13 (7.18%) SC Cleared
11 12 (6.63%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (6.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (6.63%) SANS
12 11 (6.08%) GCFA
13 8 (4.42%) Master's Degree
14 7 (3.87%) CCNP
15 5 (2.76%) AWS Certification
15 5 (2.76%) Azure Certification
15 5 (2.76%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (32.04%) NIST
2 57 (31.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (23.20%) GDPR
4 27 (14.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (11.60%) PCI DSS
6 13 (7.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (5.52%) HIPAA
8 9 (4.97%) NCSC
9 5 (2.76%) NIST 800
9 5 (2.76%) SOC 2
10 4 (2.21%) SLA
11 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.55%) COBIT
12 1 (0.55%) GRC
12 1 (0.55%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (12.71%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.76%) Docker
4 4 (2.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (1.66%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (7.73%) Terraform
2 11 (6.08%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.52%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (4.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (4.42%) QRadar
6 7 (3.87%) Ansible
7 6 (3.31%) Nessus
8 4 (2.21%) CASB
8 4 (2.21%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (2.21%) CSIRT
8 4 (2.21%) VxRail
9 3 (1.66%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.66%) Puppet
10 2 (1.10%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (1.10%) Grafana
10 2 (1.10%) SCCM
10 2 (1.10%) ZENworks
11 1 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 57 (31.49%) Microsoft
2 35 (19.34%) Splunk
3 22 (12.15%) VMware
4 17 (9.39%) CrowdStrike
5 15 (8.29%) Cisco
6 11 (6.08%) Juniper
7 5 (2.76%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.76%) SolarWinds
7 5 (2.76%) Sophos
7 5 (2.76%) Tanium
8 4 (2.21%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.66%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.66%) Darktrace
9 3 (1.66%) IBM
9 3 (1.66%) Tenable
10 2 (1.10%) Dell
10 2 (1.10%) EMC
10 2 (1.10%) Google
10 2 (1.10%) SAP
10 2 (1.10%) SonicWALL