SIEM Job Trends in Reading

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring SIEM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 64 84
Rank change year-on-year +20 +20 +4
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 8 12 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 1.37% 1.66% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.88% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 16
10th Percentile - - £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -21.31% +24.49%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £90,000
90th Percentile - £87,250 -
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 461 640 990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 79.07% 88.52% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 292 271 645
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +14.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,813 £83,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £112,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in Reading

SIEM
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SIEM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SIEM

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
1 6 (75.00%) Network Security
1 6 (75.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Games
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) Security Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) Senior
1 6 (75.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) ITIL
2 6 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (25.00%) IT Asset Management
3 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (25.00%) RBAC
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) CCNA
1 6 (75.00%) CCNP
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (75.00%) CISSP
1 6 (75.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 6 (75.00%) GCIA
1 6 (75.00%) SANS
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines