SIEM Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 166 288
Rank change year-on-year -48 +122 -18
Contract jobs citing SIEM 135 386 400
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.91% 1.57% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.75% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 261 282
10th Percentile £425 £450 £376
25th Percentile £481 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £688
90th Percentile £825 £820 £774
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £593
% change year-on-year - +1.27% +12.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year -46.67% +13.98% +31.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,003 22,075 40,116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.68% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,632 29,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 503 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.68 £20.43
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +35.21% +61.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

SIEM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SIEM trend for jobs with a WFH option

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SIEM.

SIEM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SIEM over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

SIEM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SIEM
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SIEM.

SIEM hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (0.74%) IBM Notes
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (16.30%) Azure
2 14 (10.37%) AWS
3 7 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.44%) AWS CloudTrail
4 6 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (4.44%) GCP
5 4 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (2.22%) Serverless
7 2 (1.48%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.48%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (1.48%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.48%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.48%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.48%) SaaS
8 1 (0.74%) GitHub
8 1 (0.74%) IaaS
8 1 (0.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (25.19%) Firewall
2 15 (11.11%) Network Security
3 12 (8.89%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
5 7 (5.19%) Wireshark
6 6 (4.44%) DNS
7 5 (3.70%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (3.70%) VPN
8 4 (2.96%) DHCP
8 4 (2.96%) tcpdump
8 4 (2.96%) VLAN
9 3 (2.22%) LAN
9 3 (2.22%) WAN
10 2 (1.48%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (1.48%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (1.48%) SNMP
11 1 (0.74%) HTTP
11 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.74%) SMTP
11 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.96%) Apache Hive
2 4 (2.96%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.96%) Tableau
3 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.48%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (5.93%) JIRA
2 4 (2.96%) IDA Disassembler
3 3 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.48%) Git
General
1 26 (19.26%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.37%) Finance
4 12 (8.89%) Manufacturing
5 9 (6.67%) Banking
5 9 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.96%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.74%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.74%) Legal
8 1 (0.74%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (22.96%) Analyst
2 25 (18.52%) Security Engineer
3 16 (11.85%) SOC Analyst
4 15 (11.11%) Architect
4 15 (11.11%) Senior
5 14 (10.37%) Security Analyst
6 11 (8.15%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 11 (8.15%) Security Specialist
6 11 (8.15%) SIEM Engineer
7 9 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (5.93%) IT Security Specialist
8 8 (5.93%) Security Architect
8 8 (5.93%) Security Operations Specialist
8 8 (5.93%) Senior Security Analyst
9 7 (5.19%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
10 6 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 6 (4.44%) Lead
10 6 (4.44%) Security Manager
10 6 (4.44%) SIEM Architect
10 6 (4.44%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.96%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (2.96%) OLE
2 3 (2.22%) JSON
2 3 (2.22%) Regular Expression
2 3 (2.22%) XML
3 2 (1.48%) Ajax
3 2 (1.48%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.48%) AWS SAM
3 2 (1.48%) CSS
3 2 (1.48%) HTML
3 2 (1.48%) SOAP
3 2 (1.48%) Web Services
4 1 (0.74%) EDI
4 1 (0.74%) OAuth
4 1 (0.74%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.74%) RESTful
4 1 (0.74%) SAML
4 1 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.48%) Management Information System
2 14 (10.37%) Security Operations Centre
3 12 (8.89%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (8.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 10 (7.41%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.70%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (2.96%) YARA
8 3 (2.22%) CSOC
8 3 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.22%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.48%) CMDB
9 2 (1.48%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.48%) PMI
10 1 (0.74%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.74%) Insider Threat
10 1 (0.74%) PKI
10 1 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.33%) Windows
2 16 (11.85%) Linux
3 6 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.48%) Unix
4 2 (1.48%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.74%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (39.26%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 45 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 43 (31.85%) Vulnerability Management
4 37 (27.41%) Use Case
5 26 (19.26%) Information Security
6 23 (17.04%) Data Loss Prevention
7 21 (15.56%) Security Architecture
8 19 (14.07%) Data Security
8 19 (14.07%) Penetration Testing
9 17 (12.59%) Incident Management
9 17 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (11.11%) Roadmaps
11 13 (9.63%) Cloud Security
11 13 (9.63%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 13 (9.63%) SOAR
11 13 (9.63%) Threat Detection
12 12 (8.89%) Risk Management
12 12 (8.89%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 11 (8.15%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.93%) Python
2 6 (4.44%) Bash
3 5 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.96%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.96%) SQL
5 2 (1.48%) Go
5 2 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.74%) C#
6 1 (0.74%) Ruby
6 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (32.59%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 19 (14.07%) DV Cleared
4 13 (9.63%) CISSP
5 11 (8.15%) CISM
6 8 (5.93%) Degree
7 7 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (4.44%) CCNA
8 6 (4.44%) CEH
8 6 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (4.44%) PMP
9 4 (2.96%) APMP
9 4 (2.96%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (2.96%) SANS
10 2 (1.48%) CCSP
10 2 (1.48%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (1.48%) RHCE
11 1 (0.74%) ISSEP
11 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (26.67%) NIST
2 19 (14.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.70%) GDPR
3 5 (3.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 5 (3.70%) NCSC
4 4 (2.96%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.22%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.48%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.74%) GLBA
7 1 (0.74%) ISAE 3402
7 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (9.63%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.70%) Snort
3 4 (2.96%) Docker
4 2 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.48%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (5.93%) Terraform
2 6 (4.44%) QRadar
3 5 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.96%) Ansible
4 4 (2.96%) Kibana
4 4 (2.96%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (2.22%) Grafana
5 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.22%) Nessus
6 2 (1.48%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (1.48%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.48%) Nagios
6 2 (1.48%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.48%) OpenView
6 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.74%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.74%) Nmap
7 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.74%) Puppet
7 1 (0.74%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (31.11%) Microsoft
2 30 (22.22%) LogRhythm
3 20 (14.81%) Qualys
4 19 (14.07%) Splunk
5 16 (11.85%) Forcepoint
5 16 (11.85%) Varonis
6 13 (9.63%) Cisco
7 9 (6.67%) Google
8 7 (5.19%) ArcSight
9 4 (2.96%) AlienVault
10 3 (2.22%) VMware
10 3 (2.22%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.48%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.48%) Citrix
11 2 (1.48%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.48%) Oracle
11 2 (1.48%) Rapid7
11 2 (1.48%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.48%) Sophos
11 2 (1.48%) Symantec