SIEM Contracts in London

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SIEM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SIEM over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 205 348
Rank change year-on-year -6 +143 -53
Contract jobs citing SIEM 190 331 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.09% 1.28% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.41% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 239 182
10th Percentile £425 £475 £425
25th Percentile £513 £520 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £648 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +7.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £711
90th Percentile £825 £823 £800
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £97.50 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year -46.67% +13.98% +19.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

SIEM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,475 23,527 35,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.92% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,094 16,975 26,024
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 269 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.40 £17.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% -0.43% +14.77%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.61
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.30 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in London

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM in London.

Daily rate trend for SIEM in London

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in London

SIEM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIEM in London.

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in London

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +21 23 £545 -13.49% 6
East London +2 7 £585 -2.50% 2
West London +18 4 £525 -38.24% 2
South London - 2 £475 -
SIEM
England

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (3.16%) Confluence
2 5 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 43 (22.63%) Azure
2 16 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (7.89%) AWS
3 15 (7.89%) SaaS
4 10 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (4.74%) Entra ID
5 9 (4.74%) IaaS
6 6 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.63%) GCP
8 4 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.58%) Serverless
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.05%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.05%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.05%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.05%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 53 (27.89%) Firewall
2 17 (8.95%) Network Security
3 13 (6.84%) WAN
4 12 (6.32%) SD-WAN
4 12 (6.32%) TCP/IP
5 10 (5.26%) HTTP
6 9 (4.74%) DNS
7 5 (2.63%) FTP
7 5 (2.63%) SMTP
8 4 (2.11%) HTTPS
8 4 (2.11%) ICMP
8 4 (2.11%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (2.11%) POP3
8 4 (2.11%) SSH
9 3 (1.58%) DHCP
9 3 (1.58%) IPsec
9 3 (1.58%) VPN
10 2 (1.05%) BGP
10 2 (1.05%) LAN
10 2 (1.05%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.05%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.05%) Power BI
2 2 (1.05%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.11%) JIRA
2 3 (1.58%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.53%) Git
General
1 73 (38.42%) Finance
2 31 (16.32%) Banking
3 24 (12.63%) Social Skills
4 15 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.11%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.05%) Retail
8 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.53%) Law
8 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Publishing
8 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (22.63%) Security Engineer
2 39 (20.53%) Analyst
3 32 (16.84%) SIEM Engineer
4 31 (16.32%) Architect
5 20 (10.53%) Security Architect
6 18 (9.47%) ArcSight Engineer
6 18 (9.47%) Senior
7 17 (8.95%) Security Analyst
8 14 (7.37%) SOC Analyst
9 13 (6.84%) Consultant
10 12 (6.32%) Security Consultant
11 11 (5.79%) Lead
12 9 (4.74%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 9 (4.74%) SOC Engineer
12 9 (4.74%) Splunk Engineer
13 8 (4.21%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 8 (4.21%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (3.68%) Network Engineer
14 7 (3.68%) Network Security Engineer
14 7 (3.68%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (2.63%) SAML
3 3 (1.58%) OAuth
4 2 (1.05%) AWS SAM
4 2 (1.05%) JSON
4 2 (1.05%) OpenID
4 2 (1.05%) Regular Expression
4 2 (1.05%) REST
4 2 (1.05%) RESTful
5 1 (0.53%) Ajax
5 1 (0.53%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.53%) CSS
5 1 (0.53%) EDI
5 1 (0.53%) HTML
5 1 (0.53%) SOAP
5 1 (0.53%) Web Services
5 1 (0.53%) XML
5 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.00%) Security Posture
2 17 (8.95%) PKI
3 16 (8.42%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (5.79%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (4.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.68%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.68%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 5 (2.63%) Cyberattack
8 5 (2.63%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.11%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.11%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.58%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.58%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (1.05%) IoT
11 2 (1.05%) PMI
11 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.47%) Windows
2 11 (5.79%) Linux
3 9 (4.74%) Unix
4 3 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (39.47%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (21.58%) Cloud Security
3 34 (17.89%) Information Security
3 34 (17.89%) Security Operations
4 29 (15.26%) Data Loss Prevention
4 29 (15.26%) Incident Response
5 27 (14.21%) Vulnerability Management
6 24 (12.63%) Use Case
7 22 (11.58%) Threat Detection
8 20 (10.53%) Observability
9 19 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
10 18 (9.47%) Penetration Testing
10 18 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (8.95%) DevOps
11 17 (8.95%) Security Architecture
12 16 (8.42%) Roadmaps
13 15 (7.89%) Migration
13 15 (7.89%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 14 (7.37%) CI/CD
15 13 (6.84%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 25 (13.16%) PowerShell
2 23 (12.11%) Python
3 8 (4.21%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (3.68%) Bash
5 3 (1.58%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.58%) SQL
6 2 (1.05%) Go
7 1 (0.53%) C#
7 1 (0.53%) Perl
7 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (20.00%) CISSP
2 30 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 25 (13.16%) Degree
4 21 (11.05%) DV Cleared
5 16 (8.42%) CISM
6 12 (6.32%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (5.26%) CEH
8 9 (4.74%) CCNP
8 9 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (4.74%) GIAC
9 8 (4.21%) SC Cleared
10 6 (3.16%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (2.63%) GCIA
11 5 (2.63%) GCIH
12 4 (2.11%) CISA
12 4 (2.11%) SANS
13 3 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.58%) CCIE
13 3 (1.58%) CCSP
14 2 (1.05%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (20.00%) NIST
2 31 (16.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (6.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 8 (4.21%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.63%) GRC
6 3 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.58%) GDPR
6 3 (1.58%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.58%) QA
7 2 (1.05%) COBIT
7 2 (1.05%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.05%) NCSC
7 2 (1.05%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.53%) GLBA
8 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.53%) ISAE 3402
8 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (6.32%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (5.79%) QRadar
2 10 (5.26%) Terraform
3 7 (3.68%) ArcSight ESM
4 6 (3.16%) Ansible
5 5 (2.63%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.63%) Nessus
6 4 (2.11%) Kibana
6 4 (2.11%) logstash
6 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.58%) CASB
7 3 (1.58%) CSIRT
7 3 (1.58%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.58%) Grafana
7 3 (1.58%) SCCM
8 2 (1.05%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (1.05%) PingFederate
8 2 (1.05%) WSUS
9 1 (0.53%) Nmap
9 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (22.11%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.11%) Splunk
3 22 (11.58%) ArcSight
4 12 (6.32%) Cisco
4 12 (6.32%) LogRhythm
5 8 (4.21%) Rapid7
6 7 (3.68%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.11%) AlienVault
7 4 (2.11%) Darktrace
7 4 (2.11%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.11%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.58%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.58%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.58%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.58%) McAfee
8 3 (1.58%) New Relic
8 3 (1.58%) Oracle
8 3 (1.58%) Sophos
9 2 (1.05%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (1.05%) Carbon Black