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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 336 233
Rank change year-on-year -10 -103 +123
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 452 858 1,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.86% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.01% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 352 702 739
10th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,545 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,466 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -2.36% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -0.09%

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 51,728 84,924 96,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.58% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,848 59,902 56,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,010 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,415 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 12 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 12 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 -35 422 £63,000 -3.08% 461
UK excluding London -16 230 £55,000 -8.33% 337
London 0 188 £75,000 +7.91% 204
Work from Home -10 134 £60,000 - 247
South East +19 66 £50,000 -13.04% 134
Midlands +90 61 £45,500 -13.33% 29
North of England -38 42 £58,000 +4.04% 75
West Midlands +76 40 £55,000 +17.02% 19
East of England +39 30 £61,500 -5.38% 47
North West -25 30 £75,000 +59.57% 32
East Midlands +47 21 £45,000 -14.29% 8
South West +44 15 £47,500 -44.93% 24
Scotland +99 12 £46,754 -0.52% 35
Yorkshire +15 8 £51,250 -14.58% 37
North East +27 4 £57,500 +35.29% 7
Northern Ireland +35 2 - - 9
Wales +29 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 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 155 (34.29%) Azure
2 77 (17.04%) Azure Sentinel
3 61 (13.50%) AWS
4 45 (9.96%) Microsoft 365
5 35 (7.74%) GCP
6 24 (5.31%) Entra ID
7 19 (4.20%) SaaS
8 14 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (2.65%) IaaS
9 12 (2.65%) PaaS
10 10 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (1.99%) Serverless
12 6 (1.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 6 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (0.66%) AWS CloudFormation
15 3 (0.66%) AWS CloudTrail
15 3 (0.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 225 (49.78%) Firewall
2 91 (20.13%) Network Security
3 70 (15.49%) Intrusion Detection
4 57 (12.61%) VPN
5 32 (7.08%) TCP/IP
6 29 (6.42%) DNS
7 26 (5.75%) WAN
8 17 (3.76%) LAN
9 14 (3.10%) Internet
9 14 (3.10%) SAN
10 12 (2.65%) DHCP
10 12 (2.65%) SMTP
11 11 (2.43%) HTTP
12 9 (1.99%) FTP
12 9 (1.99%) Wireshark
13 8 (1.77%) Cisco Firepower
13 8 (1.77%) SD-WAN
14 7 (1.55%) BGP
14 7 (1.55%) OSPF
14 7 (1.55%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.55%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.44%) Power BI
3 2 (0.44%) SQL Server
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 (1.77%) Burp Suite
2 5 (1.11%) JIRA
3 4 (0.88%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
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%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.22%) Postman
4 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 157 (34.73%) Social Skills
2 83 (18.36%) Finance
3 75 (16.59%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.74%) Legal
5 31 (6.86%) Law
6 26 (5.75%) Retail
7 17 (3.76%) Banking
8 16 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.65%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.43%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.21%) Public Sector
12 9 (1.99%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.99%) Electronics
13 8 (1.77%) Mandarin Language
14 7 (1.55%) Aviation
15 6 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (1.11%) Front Office
16 5 (1.11%) Marketing
17 3 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 176 (38.94%) Analyst
2 106 (23.45%) Security Analyst
3 73 (16.15%) Senior
4 60 (13.27%) SOC Analyst
5 59 (13.05%) Security Engineer
6 52 (11.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 50 (11.06%) Lead
8 40 (8.85%) Architect
8 40 (8.85%) Senior Analyst
9 36 (7.96%) Security Architect
10 23 (5.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 21 (4.65%) SOC Engineer
12 20 (4.42%) Operations Analyst
13 18 (3.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (3.54%) Security Manager
15 15 (3.32%) Information Analyst
15 15 (3.32%) Information Security Analyst
15 15 (3.32%) Security Operations Analyst
15 15 (3.32%) SIEM Analyst
16 14 (3.10%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.54%) LDAP
2 9 (1.99%) SAML
3 6 (1.33%) OAuth
3 6 (1.33%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.11%) OpenID
5 2 (0.44%) AWS CDK
5 2 (0.44%) AWS SAM
5 2 (0.44%) REST
5 2 (0.44%) YAML
6 1 (0.22%) boto
6 1 (0.22%) JSON
6 1 (0.22%) JWT
6 1 (0.22%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 114 (25.22%) Management Information System
2 101 (22.35%) Security Posture
3 63 (13.94%) Cyber Threat
4 56 (12.39%) Security Operations Centre
5 24 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (5.09%) PKI
7 21 (4.65%) Social Media
7 21 (4.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 17 (3.76%) Hedge funds
9 16 (3.54%) Onboarding
10 14 (3.10%) Client/Server
11 10 (2.21%) CSOC
11 10 (2.21%) Cyber Defence
11 10 (2.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 10 (2.21%) Private Cloud
11 10 (2.21%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.99%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.99%) Podcast
13 8 (1.77%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 139 (30.75%) Windows
2 62 (13.72%) Linux
3 24 (5.31%) Windows Server
4 21 (4.65%) Windows Vista
5 7 (1.55%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.33%) Android
6 6 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.11%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.88%) Unix
8 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.66%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (63.72%) Cybersecurity
2 232 (51.33%) Incident Response
3 186 (41.15%) Information Security
4 164 (36.28%) Security Operations
5 129 (28.54%) Vulnerability Management
6 125 (27.65%) Problem-Solving
7 86 (19.03%) Cloud Security
8 79 (17.48%) Risk Management
9 76 (16.81%) Threat Intelligence
10 72 (15.93%) Data Loss Prevention
11 59 (13.05%) Computer Science
12 57 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 57 (12.61%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 57 (12.61%) Security Monitoring
13 56 (12.39%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 54 (11.95%) Incident Management
15 53 (11.73%) Identity Access Management
16 49 (10.84%) Data Protection
17 48 (10.62%) DevOps
18 47 (10.40%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 89 (19.69%) PowerShell
2 79 (17.48%) Python
3 48 (10.62%) Kusto Query Language
4 35 (7.74%) Bash
5 13 (2.88%) C#
6 9 (1.99%) Perl
7 7 (1.55%) SQL
8 6 (1.33%) C++
8 6 (1.33%) Go
9 3 (0.66%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.44%) Bicep
10 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.44%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.22%) Groovy
11 1 (0.22%) Ruby
11 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 134 (29.65%) CISSP
2 127 (28.10%) Degree
3 95 (21.02%) Security Cleared
4 80 (17.70%) CISM
5 68 (15.04%) SC Cleared
6 67 (14.82%) CEH
7 61 (13.50%) CompTIA Security+
8 58 (12.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (9.96%) GCIH
10 41 (9.07%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (8.63%) DV Cleared
12 36 (7.96%) GCIA
13 35 (7.74%) OSCP
14 34 (7.52%) CISA
15 30 (6.64%) Master's Degree
16 25 (5.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 24 (5.31%) SANS
18 22 (4.87%) DBS Check
19 17 (3.76%) GIAC
20 15 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (32.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 113 (25.00%) NIST
3 77 (17.04%) GDPR
4 51 (11.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 29 (6.42%) PCI DSS
6 26 (5.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 21 (4.65%) SLA
8 18 (3.98%) COBIT
8 18 (3.98%) NCSC
9 13 (2.88%) HIPAA
10 11 (2.43%) SOC 2
11 8 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (1.33%) NIST 800
13 5 (1.11%) GRC
14 3 (0.66%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
16 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 1 (0.22%) FISMA
16 1 (0.22%) GLBA
System Software
1 47 (10.40%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.65%) Docker
2 21 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.22%) Snort
6 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (9.96%) QRadar
2 20 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (3.98%) Terraform
4 15 (3.32%) Ansible
5 13 (2.88%) Kubernetes
6 12 (2.65%) Nessus
7 9 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.33%) ArcSight ESM
8 6 (1.33%) CSIRT
9 5 (1.11%) CASB
9 5 (1.11%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.11%) Puppet
10 4 (0.88%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.88%) Graylog
10 4 (0.88%) ZENworks
11 3 (0.66%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.66%) Grafana
11 3 (0.66%) SCCM
12 2 (0.44%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 166 (36.73%) Microsoft
2 84 (18.58%) Splunk
3 47 (10.40%) VMware
4 37 (8.19%) Cisco
5 26 (5.75%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (5.53%) Tenable
7 20 (4.42%) Juniper
8 18 (3.98%) Palo Alto
9 14 (3.10%) ArcSight
9 14 (3.10%) McAfee
10 11 (2.43%) AlienVault
11 10 (2.21%) Fortinet
11 10 (2.21%) Google
12 9 (1.99%) Qualys
13 8 (1.77%) Dell
14 7 (1.55%) CheckPoint
15 6 (1.33%) LogLogic
15 6 (1.33%) LogRhythm
15 6 (1.33%) SolarWinds
16 5 (1.11%) Tanium