SIEM Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

SIEM Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median SIEM Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 747 755 850
Rank change year-on-year +8 +95 -164
Permanent jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 24 7 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.011% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.013% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 24 7 12
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,500 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £45,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,747
90th Percentile £70,000 - £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -21.43% +25.84%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,715 54,769 68,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 47,210 31,112 43,042
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured SIEM Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in the UK excluding London

SIEM Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SIEM Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SIEM Engineer in the UK excluding London

SIEM Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SIEM Engineer in the UK excluding London

SIEM Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
East of England - 14 £65,000 -
South East +16 5 £55,000 -8.33% 3
North of England +37 3 £65,000 +23.81% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £65,000 - 1
South West -19 2 £62,500 +38.89%
SIEM Engineer
UK

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, SIEM Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Splunk
1 24 (100.00%) SIEM
2 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
3 13 (54.17%) PowerShell
3 13 (54.17%) SC Cleared
3 13 (54.17%) Python
3 13 (54.17%) Client Onboarding
4 11 (45.83%) Onboarding
5 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (41.67%) Windows
5 10 (41.67%) Linux
5 10 (41.67%) Bash
6 9 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (37.50%) logstash
6 9 (37.50%) Kalman Filter
6 9 (37.50%) Fluentd
6 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (37.50%) Security Operations
6 9 (37.50%) Fluent Bit
7 8 (33.33%) Use Case
7 8 (33.33%) iPad
8 7 (29.17%) Aerospace
9 3 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
9 3 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
9 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 2 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (8.33%) Big Data
10 2 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (8.33%) Apache
10 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (8.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) AWS
1 1 (4.17%) Azure
1 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (4.17%) IaaS
1 1 (4.17%) PaaS
1 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Big Data
General
1 7 (29.17%) Aerospace
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) Fluent Bit
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) Onboarding
2 8 (33.33%) iPad
3 2 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Linux
1 10 (41.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) SIEM
2 13 (54.17%) Client Onboarding
3 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (37.50%) Kalman Filter
4 9 (37.50%) Security Operations
5 8 (33.33%) Use Case
6 3 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 3 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
7 2 (8.33%) Cyber Intelligence
7 2 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
8 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (4.17%) Customer Experience
8 1 (4.17%) Incident Response
8 1 (4.17%) Malware Analysis
8 1 (4.17%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (4.17%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) PowerShell
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 10 (41.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (54.17%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) CISSP
4 1 (4.17%) ISSEP
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Fluentd
1 9 (37.50%) logstash
2 1 (4.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) Splunk