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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 163 393
Rank change year-on-year -167 +230 -41
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 712 1,784 1,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 2.21% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 2.32% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 558 784 1,092
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £92,500 £101,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,918 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.76% -12.00% +13.64%

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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for SIEM in the UK

SIEM
Top 19 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 26 July 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
England -132 662 £65,000 +4.00% 107
UK excluding London -240 370 £60,918 +10.76% 92
London +3 318 £75,000 +7.14% 37
Work from Home -46 237 £62,500 -3.85% 68
North of England -91 111 £60,000 +15.38% 24
South East -111 106 £60,000 +4.35% 20
South West -51 76 £90,000 +20.00% 11
Yorkshire +17 51 £66,959 +42.46% 6
North West -103 46 £57,500 -0.86% 11
East of England -41 23 £67,500 - 7
Midlands -164 23 £57,000 +8.57% 11
West Midlands -85 16 £57,000 -5.00% 9
Scotland -186 16 £52,500 -4.55% 9
North East -2 14 £45,000 -33.33% 7
Wales -52 8 £50,309 +0.62% 1
East Midlands -107 7 £63,750 +34.21% 2
Northern Ireland -4 5 £90,000 +140.00% 9
Isle of Man -16 2 - - 1
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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 38 (5.34%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.84%) IIS
4 2 (0.28%) Apache
4 2 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) Mattermost
Applications
1 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 224 (31.46%) Azure
2 133 (18.68%) AWS
3 93 (13.06%) Microsoft 365
4 75 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
5 37 (5.20%) SaaS
6 29 (4.07%) Cloud Computing
7 27 (3.79%) IaaS
8 23 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 23 (3.23%) PaaS
9 19 (2.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 19 (2.67%) GCP
10 18 (2.53%) AWS CloudTrail
11 17 (2.39%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (1.97%) dbt
13 9 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (1.12%) Mimecast
15 7 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.98%) GitHub
16 6 (0.84%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 264 (37.08%) Firewall
2 124 (17.42%) Network Security
3 87 (12.22%) Intrusion Detection
4 50 (7.02%) WAN
5 46 (6.46%) LAN
6 38 (5.34%) VPN
7 32 (4.49%) TCP/IP
8 26 (3.65%) Internet
9 23 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (2.95%) DNS
10 21 (2.95%) Wireless
11 18 (2.53%) SD-WAN
12 14 (1.97%) DHCP
13 13 (1.83%) BGP
13 13 (1.83%) VLAN
13 13 (1.83%) VoIP
14 11 (1.54%) Cisco ISE
14 11 (1.54%) WLAN
15 10 (1.40%) Unified Communications
15 10 (1.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.39%) Power BI
2 7 (0.98%) Relational Database
2 7 (0.98%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.70%) BigQuery
3 5 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (0.70%) Hadoop
4 3 (0.42%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.28%) Big Data
5 2 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.28%) Redis
6 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 14 (1.97%) Jenkins
2 12 (1.69%) JIRA
3 5 (0.70%) Git
4 4 (0.56%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.42%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.14%) Snyk
General
1 168 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 148 (20.79%) Finance
3 93 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (6.74%) Law
5 47 (6.60%) Banking
6 40 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (3.79%) Retail
8 26 (3.65%) Public Sector
9 25 (3.51%) Legal
10 21 (2.95%) Military
11 16 (2.25%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.83%) Games
13 9 (1.26%) Marketing
14 8 (1.12%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.84%) Advertising
15 6 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.70%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.56%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 255 (35.81%) Analyst
2 147 (20.65%) Security Analyst
3 140 (19.66%) Senior
4 136 (19.10%) Security Engineer
5 74 (10.39%) Lead
6 72 (10.11%) Senior Analyst
7 69 (9.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 67 (9.41%) SOC Analyst
9 61 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 57 (8.01%) Consultant
11 53 (7.44%) Security Consultant
12 43 (6.04%) Senior Security Analyst
13 40 (5.62%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 38 (5.34%) Security Manager
15 36 (5.06%) Architect
15 36 (5.06%) IT Analyst
16 35 (4.92%) IT Security Analyst
17 34 (4.78%) Senior Security Engineer
18 30 (4.21%) Information Analyst
18 30 (4.21%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.78%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (1.97%) Django
3 5 (0.70%) Fluent Bit
3 5 (0.70%) Kafka
3 5 (0.70%) Web Services
4 4 (0.56%) REST
5 3 (0.42%) LDAP
5 3 (0.42%) Loki
5 3 (0.42%) OAuth
5 3 (0.42%) OpenID
5 3 (0.42%) SAML
5 3 (0.42%) Sass
5 3 (0.42%) web3js
6 2 (0.28%) .NET
6 2 (0.28%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.28%) Next.js
6 2 (0.28%) Node.js
6 2 (0.28%) React
6 2 (0.28%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 115 (16.15%) Security Operations Centre
2 100 (14.04%) Management Information System
3 75 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
4 60 (8.43%) Security Posture
5 55 (7.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 49 (6.88%) Cyberattack
7 44 (6.18%) Cyber Defence
8 26 (3.65%) Data Centre
9 25 (3.51%) Onboarding
10 22 (3.09%) Cloud Native
11 18 (2.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 14 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.83%) Client/Server
13 13 (1.83%) Operational Technology
14 12 (1.69%) Cyber Security Posture
14 12 (1.69%) PKI
15 11 (1.54%) IoT
15 11 (1.54%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 146 (20.51%) Windows
2 87 (12.22%) Linux
3 61 (8.57%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.53%) Unix
5 10 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (0.98%) CentOS
8 6 (0.84%) Mac OS X
9 5 (0.70%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.56%) Solaris
10 4 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.56%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.56%) Windows XP
10 4 (0.56%) zOS
11 2 (0.28%) Android
11 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (74.02%) Cybersecurity
2 250 (35.11%) Incident Response
3 246 (34.55%) Security Operations
4 211 (29.63%) Information Security
5 170 (23.88%) Vulnerability Management
6 139 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (15.73%) Incident Management
8 105 (14.75%) Data Loss Prevention
9 95 (13.34%) Cloud Security
10 86 (12.08%) Penetration Testing
11 76 (10.67%) Threat Intelligence
12 70 (9.83%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 69 (9.69%) Risk Management
14 68 (9.55%) ITIL
14 68 (9.55%) Security Monitoring
15 67 (9.41%) SOAR
16 64 (8.99%) Analytics
17 61 (8.57%) Computer Science
17 61 (8.57%) Mentoring
18 60 (8.43%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 107 (15.03%) Python
2 81 (11.38%) PowerShell
3 55 (7.72%) SQL
4 34 (4.78%) Bash
5 27 (3.79%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (1.54%) Java
7 5 (0.70%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.56%) Go
9 2 (0.28%) C#
9 2 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 188 (26.40%) CISSP
2 162 (22.75%) Security Cleared
3 126 (17.70%) Degree
4 90 (12.64%) SC Cleared
5 85 (11.94%) CISM
6 81 (11.38%) DV Cleared
7 58 (8.15%) CISA
8 44 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (4.92%) CompTIA Security+
10 34 (4.78%) CEH
11 31 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (3.51%) CompTIA CySA+
12 25 (3.51%) Master's Degree
13 24 (3.37%) CCSP
14 18 (2.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 18 (2.53%) AWS Certification
14 18 (2.53%) Azure Certification
14 18 (2.53%) GCIH
15 14 (1.97%) GCIA
15 14 (1.97%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (22.19%) NIST
2 146 (20.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (8.15%) PCI DSS
4 53 (7.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 44 (6.18%) GDPR
6 28 (3.93%) NCSC
7 26 (3.65%) SOC 2
8 21 (2.95%) HIPAA
9 20 (2.81%) GRC
10 18 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (1.83%) NIST 800
12 12 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 11 (1.54%) COBIT
14 10 (1.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 8 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.84%) SLA
17 5 (0.70%) Data Quality
17 5 (0.70%) JSP 440
18 4 (0.56%) FISMA
18 4 (0.56%) GLBA
System Software
1 61 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 32 (4.49%) vSphere
3 21 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.12%) Docker
5 8 (1.12%) VMware Workstation
6 7 (0.98%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.84%) Forefront TMG
8 1 (0.14%) Snort
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (5.06%) Ansible
2 34 (4.78%) CASB
3 27 (3.79%) QRadar
4 24 (3.37%) Kubernetes
4 24 (3.37%) Terraform
5 15 (2.11%) Nessus
6 14 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (1.69%) logstash
8 11 (1.54%) CSIRT
9 9 (1.26%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.98%) WSUS
11 6 (0.84%) Puppet
11 6 (0.84%) SCOM
12 5 (0.70%) Fluentd
12 5 (0.70%) Suricata
13 4 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.42%) SCCM
14 3 (0.42%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 202 (28.37%) Microsoft
2 108 (15.17%) Splunk
3 47 (6.60%) Cisco
4 38 (5.34%) VMware
5 31 (4.35%) SolarWinds
6 28 (3.93%) Tripwire
7 27 (3.79%) Juniper
7 27 (3.79%) Tanium
8 26 (3.65%) ServiceNow
9 25 (3.51%) McAfee
10 24 (3.37%) ArcSight
11 22 (3.09%) Palo Alto
11 22 (3.09%) Qualys
12 19 (2.67%) Carbon Black
13 18 (2.53%) Atlassian
13 18 (2.53%) IBM
14 16 (2.25%) CyberArk
15 14 (1.97%) CheckPoint
15 14 (1.97%) LogRhythm
16 12 (1.69%) Darktrace