Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 325 239
Rank change year-on-year +6 -86 +118
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 457 861 1,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 0.87% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.02% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 363 701 742
10th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,783 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -3.41% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £89,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £58,943
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.45% +7.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the UK

SIEM
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SIEM in the UK

SIEM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SIEM in the UK

SIEM
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England -9 429 £63,000 -3.08% 388
UK excluding London +17 228 £55,000 -4.35% 283
London +1 195 £75,000 +9.49% 177
Work from Home +38 139 £60,000 - 225
Midlands +105 66 £45,000 -14.29% 36
South East +33 66 £50,000 -13.04% 103
West Midlands +69 44 £55,000 +19.57% 24
North of England -16 39 £61,500 +8.85% 50
East of England +49 29 £61,500 -5.38% 38
North West 0 26 £75,000 +59.57% 32
East Midlands +55 22 £45,000 -14.29% 10
South West +44 15 £47,500 -32.14% 31
Scotland +113 10 £48,507 +3.21% 33
Yorkshire +21 9 £52,500 -14.29% 16
North East +31 4 £57,500 +35.29% 3
Northern Ireland +31 2 - - 5
Wales +31 1 £55,000 -6.38% 2
Isle of Man +15 1 £34,500 -

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.53%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 167 (36.54%) Azure
2 82 (17.94%) Azure Sentinel
3 63 (13.79%) AWS
4 49 (10.72%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (7.44%) GCP
6 27 (5.91%) Entra ID
7 18 (3.94%) SaaS
8 16 (3.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (2.63%) IaaS
9 12 (2.63%) PaaS
10 9 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.53%) Serverless
13 6 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 4 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
16 3 (0.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 3 (0.66%) AWS CloudTrail
16 3 (0.66%) Cloudflare
16 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 225 (49.23%) Firewall
2 92 (20.13%) Network Security
3 73 (15.97%) Intrusion Detection
4 51 (11.16%) VPN
5 30 (6.56%) TCP/IP
6 29 (6.35%) DNS
7 22 (4.81%) WAN
8 13 (2.84%) Internet
8 13 (2.84%) LAN
8 13 (2.84%) SAN
9 11 (2.41%) DHCP
10 10 (2.19%) SMTP
11 9 (1.97%) Cisco Firepower
11 9 (1.97%) HTTP
11 9 (1.97%) Wireshark
12 8 (1.75%) SD-WAN
13 7 (1.53%) BGP
13 7 (1.53%) FTP
13 7 (1.53%) OSPF
13 7 (1.53%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.53%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.44%) Power BI
3 2 (0.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.22%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.22%) DB2
4 1 (0.22%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.22%) MySQL
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (1.75%) Burp Suite
2 5 (1.09%) JIRA
3 4 (0.88%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.22%) Git
4 1 (0.22%) GitLab
4 1 (0.22%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.22%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.22%) Postman
4 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 161 (35.23%) Social Skills
2 86 (18.82%) Finance
3 73 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.53%) Legal
5 33 (7.22%) Law
6 30 (6.56%) Retail
7 17 (3.72%) Banking
8 16 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.84%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.63%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.41%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.97%) Electronics
13 8 (1.75%) Mandarin Language
14 6 (1.31%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.31%) Aviation
14 6 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.09%) Front Office
15 5 (1.09%) Marketing
16 3 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 183 (40.04%) Analyst
2 112 (24.51%) Security Analyst
3 80 (17.51%) Senior
4 61 (13.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 61 (13.35%) SOC Analyst
5 59 (12.91%) Security Engineer
6 50 (10.94%) Lead
7 44 (9.63%) Senior Analyst
8 40 (8.75%) Architect
9 36 (7.88%) Security Architect
10 22 (4.81%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 20 (4.38%) Operations Analyst
11 20 (4.38%) Security Manager
12 16 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (3.50%) Senior Security Engineer
12 16 (3.50%) SOC Engineer
13 15 (3.28%) Information Analyst
13 15 (3.28%) Information Security Analyst
13 15 (3.28%) Security Operations Analyst
13 15 (3.28%) SIEM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.28%) LDAP
2 9 (1.97%) SAML
3 6 (1.31%) OAuth
3 6 (1.31%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.09%) OpenID
5 4 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.44%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.44%) AWS SAM
6 2 (0.44%) REST
7 1 (0.22%) JSON
7 1 (0.22%) JWT
7 1 (0.22%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 116 (25.38%) Management Information System
2 105 (22.98%) Security Posture
3 64 (14.00%) Cyber Threat
4 54 (11.82%) Security Operations Centre
5 25 (5.47%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (5.03%) PKI
7 21 (4.60%) Social Media
7 21 (4.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 17 (3.72%) Hedge funds
8 17 (3.72%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.63%) Client/Server
9 12 (2.63%) CSOC
10 11 (2.41%) Virtual Team
11 10 (2.19%) Cyberattack
11 10 (2.19%) Data Centre
11 10 (2.19%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.97%) Cyber Defence
12 9 (1.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 9 (1.97%) Podcast
13 6 (1.31%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 138 (30.20%) Windows
2 59 (12.91%) Linux
3 24 (5.25%) Windows Server
4 21 (4.60%) Windows Vista
5 6 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.09%) Android
7 4 (0.88%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.66%) Unix
8 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (64.99%) Cybersecurity
2 233 (50.98%) Incident Response
3 194 (42.45%) Information Security
4 171 (37.42%) Security Operations
5 134 (29.32%) Vulnerability Management
6 121 (26.48%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (19.69%) Cloud Security
8 85 (18.60%) Risk Management
9 77 (16.85%) Data Loss Prevention
9 77 (16.85%) Threat Intelligence
10 61 (13.35%) Computer Science
11 59 (12.91%) Security Monitoring
12 57 (12.47%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 56 (12.25%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 55 (12.04%) Penetration Testing
15 54 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
15 54 (11.82%) Identity Access Management
16 51 (11.16%) Data Protection
16 51 (11.16%) ITIL
17 50 (10.94%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (18.82%) PowerShell
2 76 (16.63%) Python
3 49 (10.72%) Kusto Query Language
4 34 (7.44%) Bash
5 13 (2.84%) C#
6 10 (2.19%) Perl
7 6 (1.31%) C++
7 6 (1.31%) SQL
8 5 (1.09%) Go
9 3 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.44%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.44%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.22%) Bicep
11 1 (0.22%) Ruby
11 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 142 (31.07%) CISSP
2 127 (27.79%) Degree
3 86 (18.82%) Security Cleared
4 84 (18.38%) CISM
5 68 (14.88%) CEH
6 64 (14.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 63 (13.79%) SC Cleared
8 60 (13.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (9.63%) Cisco Certification
10 43 (9.41%) GCIH
11 40 (8.75%) CISA
12 37 (8.10%) DV Cleared
13 36 (7.88%) GCIA
14 34 (7.44%) OSCP
15 30 (6.56%) Master's Degree
16 26 (5.69%) SANS
17 25 (5.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 22 (4.81%) DBS Check
19 16 (3.50%) GIAC
20 15 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (34.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 120 (26.26%) NIST
3 82 (17.94%) GDPR
4 55 (12.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 29 (6.35%) PCI DSS
6 25 (5.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 20 (4.38%) COBIT
8 19 (4.16%) NCSC
9 16 (3.50%) SLA
10 13 (2.84%) HIPAA
11 11 (2.41%) SOC 2
12 8 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (1.31%) NIST 800
14 5 (1.09%) GRC
15 3 (0.66%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
16 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
17 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 1 (0.22%) FISMA
17 1 (0.22%) GLBA
System Software
1 49 (10.72%) Active Directory
2 22 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (4.60%) Docker
4 9 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.09%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.22%) Snort
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (9.41%) QRadar
2 21 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (3.50%) Terraform
4 14 (3.06%) Ansible
5 11 (2.41%) Nessus
6 10 (2.19%) Kubernetes
7 9 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.09%) ArcSight ESM
8 5 (1.09%) CSIRT
8 5 (1.09%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.09%) Puppet
9 4 (0.88%) CASB
9 4 (0.88%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.88%) Graylog
9 4 (0.88%) ZENworks
10 3 (0.66%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 3 (0.66%) SCCM
11 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.44%) Grafana
11 2 (0.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 168 (36.76%) Microsoft
2 76 (16.63%) Splunk
3 48 (10.50%) VMware
4 40 (8.75%) Cisco
5 25 (5.47%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (5.47%) Tenable
6 19 (4.16%) Juniper
6 19 (4.16%) Palo Alto
7 13 (2.84%) McAfee
8 12 (2.63%) ArcSight
9 11 (2.41%) Fortinet
10 10 (2.19%) CheckPoint
10 10 (2.19%) Google
10 10 (2.19%) Qualys
11 8 (1.75%) Dell
12 7 (1.53%) AlienVault
12 7 (1.53%) LogRhythm
13 6 (1.31%) SolarWinds
13 6 (1.31%) Sophos
14 5 (1.09%) LogLogic