SIEM Engineer Contracts

SIEM Engineer
UK

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in the UK is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
4 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 677 818
Rank change year-on-year +155 +141 -169
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 69 41 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.069% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.073% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 27 24
10th Percentile £550 - -
25th Percentile £744 £470 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £603 £313
Median % change year-on-year +32.78% +92.80% -40.48%
75th Percentile £825 £663 £619
90th Percentile £838 £693 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £800 £470 £313
% change year-on-year +70.21% +50.40% -40.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SIEM Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in the UK

SIEM Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM Engineer in the UK

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM Engineer in the UK

SIEM Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +146 68 £800 +32.78% 5
London +128 37 £800 +23.08% 1
UK excluding London +75 31 £800 +70.21% 5
Work from Home +136 16 £800 - 4
Midlands +39 13 £550 -
West Midlands +35 13 £550 -
South West - 11 £800 -
South East +17 5 £800 +70.21% 3
Yorkshire +22 2 £800 +18.52% 1
North of England +19 2 £800 +34.45% 1

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, SIEM Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 69 (100.00%) SIEM
2 53 (76.81%) Elasticsearch
3 46 (66.67%) Security Cleared
4 44 (63.77%) DV Cleared
5 36 (52.17%) Observability
6 16 (23.19%) Kibana
6 16 (23.19%) Elastic Stack
6 16 (23.19%) logstash
7 14 (20.29%) Linux
8 12 (17.39%) Windows
8 12 (17.39%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 12 (17.39%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (15.94%) Splunk
10 10 (14.49%) Ubuntu
11 9 (13.04%) Active Directory
11 9 (13.04%) Visualisation
11 9 (13.04%) iptables
11 9 (13.04%) RBAC
12 8 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (11.59%) DataOps
12 8 (11.59%) R
12 8 (11.59%) CISSP
13 6 (8.70%) Finance
13 6 (8.70%) ArcSight
14 5 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
14 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
14 5 (7.25%) Firewall
14 5 (7.25%) Banking
15 4 (5.80%) ICMP
15 4 (5.80%) Unix

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (1.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) Firewall
2 4 (5.80%) FTP
2 4 (5.80%) HTTP
2 4 (5.80%) ICMP
2 4 (5.80%) POP3
2 4 (5.80%) SMTP
2 4 (5.80%) SSH
2 4 (5.80%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.45%) BGP
3 1 (1.45%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.45%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.45%) Network Security
3 1 (1.45%) OSPF
3 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (76.81%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (8.70%) Finance
2 5 (7.25%) Banking
3 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.90%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.45%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (1.45%) Military
4 1 (1.45%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.19%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.39%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (2.90%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (2.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (2.90%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.45%) CSOC
3 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.29%) Linux
2 12 (17.39%) Windows
3 10 (14.49%) Ubuntu
4 4 (5.80%) Unix
5 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (100.00%) SIEM
2 36 (52.17%) Observability
3 12 (17.39%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 9 (13.04%) RBAC
4 9 (13.04%) Visualisation
5 8 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (11.59%) DataOps
6 5 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (5.80%) Data Loss Prevention
7 4 (5.80%) Incident Response
7 4 (5.80%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (5.80%) Security Monitoring
8 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (4.35%) Mentoring
9 2 (2.90%) Incident Management
9 2 (2.90%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 2 (2.90%) Protective Monitoring
9 2 (2.90%) Security Operations
9 2 (2.90%) Use Case
9 2 (2.90%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.59%) R
2 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.45%) Bash
3 1 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 46 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 44 (63.77%) DV Cleared
3 8 (11.59%) CISSP
4 4 (5.80%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.45%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.45%) Degree
5 1 (1.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (13.04%) Active Directory
1 9 (13.04%) iptables
Systems Management
1 16 (23.19%) Kibana
1 16 (23.19%) logstash
2 4 (5.80%) QRadar
3 1 (1.45%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (15.94%) Splunk
2 6 (8.70%) ArcSight
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.90%) Google
5 1 (1.45%) AlgoSec
5 1 (1.45%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.45%) Cisco
5 1 (1.45%) McAfee
5 1 (1.45%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.45%) SolarWinds
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