SIEM Job Trends in Watford

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Watford requiring SIEM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 1 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 0.29% - 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% - 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £56,250
25th Percentile £77,500 - £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £61,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -19.03% -1.20% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 124 233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 78.07% 96.12% 77.93%
Number of salaries quoted 193 73 174
10th Percentile £31,150 £31,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £39,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £44,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% -9.28% -22.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £55,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £67,500 £77,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -8.70%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in Watford

SIEM
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing SIEM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing SIEM

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk