Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SIEM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SIEM over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 231 359
Rank change year-on-year -101 +128 -32
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 856 1,601 1,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 1.58% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.65% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 701 738 981
10th Percentile £38,500 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,466 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,912 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% - +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SIEM in the UK

SIEM
Top 19 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 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -41 794 £65,000 +0.70% 171
UK excluding London -157 490 £58,912 +2.46% 101
London +59 346 £70,000 +3.70% 79
Work from Home +11 325 £60,000 -7.69% 95
South East -91 145 £57,500 - 25
North of England +10 143 £55,750 +4.21% 28
South West -52 77 £78,750 +12.50% 17
Yorkshire +86 63 £60,000 +30.43% 15
North West -56 57 £47,000 -18.97% 12
Midlands -129 41 £52,500 -8.70% 9
East of England 0 37 £65,000 +8.33% 6
West Midlands -68 25 £47,000 -27.69% 7
Scotland -173 25 £47,000 -32.86% 11
North East +16 23 £42,500 -37.04% 1
East Midlands -65 16 £52,500 +10.53% 2
Wales -37 14 £58,750 +6.82% 4
Northern Ireland +20 6 £90,000 +176.92% 1
Isle of Man -17 1 - - 1
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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 37 (4.32%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.75%) IIS
4 3 (0.35%) CMS
5 2 (0.23%) Apache
5 2 (0.23%) Confluence
5 2 (0.23%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 299 (34.93%) Azure
2 154 (17.99%) Microsoft 365
3 133 (15.54%) AWS
4 80 (9.35%) Azure Sentinel
5 44 (5.14%) Cloud Computing
6 36 (4.21%) Entra ID
6 36 (4.21%) SaaS
7 26 (3.04%) GCP
8 23 (2.69%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (2.34%) IaaS
9 20 (2.34%) PaaS
10 14 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (1.17%) Power Platform
12 8 (0.93%) Azure AKS
13 7 (0.82%) Amazon S3
13 7 (0.82%) GitHub
14 6 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 6 (0.70%) Twilio
15 5 (0.58%) Serverless
15 5 (0.58%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 316 (36.92%) Firewall
2 141 (16.47%) Network Security
3 107 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 69 (8.06%) TCP/IP
5 64 (7.48%) WAN
6 60 (7.01%) LAN
7 54 (6.31%) DNS
7 54 (6.31%) Internet
8 35 (4.09%) VPN
9 31 (3.62%) DKIM
9 31 (3.62%) DMARC
10 27 (3.15%) Wireshark
11 24 (2.80%) SD-WAN
11 24 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (2.34%) Wireless
13 16 (1.87%) DHCP
14 11 (1.29%) VLAN
15 10 (1.17%) WLAN
16 9 (1.05%) BGP
16 9 (1.05%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.99%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.05%) Power BI
3 6 (0.70%) Hadoop
4 5 (0.58%) BigQuery
4 5 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.35%) Redis
7 2 (0.23%) Big Data
7 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (1.64%) Jenkins
2 12 (1.40%) JIRA
3 3 (0.35%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.12%) Git
4 1 (0.12%) Snyk
General
1 190 (22.20%) Social Skills
2 171 (19.98%) Finance
3 120 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (7.13%) Law
5 51 (5.96%) Banking
6 37 (4.32%) Military
7 36 (4.21%) Public Sector
8 34 (3.97%) Legal
9 31 (3.62%) Games
10 25 (2.92%) Aerospace
11 23 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (2.69%) Retail
12 12 (1.40%) Marketing
12 12 (1.40%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.47%) Police
17 3 (0.35%) Advertising
17 3 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 361 (42.17%) Analyst
2 237 (27.69%) Security Analyst
3 145 (16.94%) Senior
4 124 (14.49%) Security Engineer
5 113 (13.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 89 (10.40%) SOC Analyst
7 80 (9.35%) Lead
8 79 (9.23%) Senior Analyst
9 67 (7.83%) Consultant
10 65 (7.59%) Architect
11 60 (7.01%) Information Analyst
11 60 (7.01%) Information Security Analyst
11 60 (7.01%) Security Consultant
12 49 (5.72%) IT Analyst
12 49 (5.72%) IT Security Analyst
13 47 (5.49%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 47 (5.49%) Senior Security Analyst
14 39 (4.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 37 (4.32%) Security Manager
16 33 (3.86%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (1.52%) Fluent Bit
3 5 (0.58%) Kafka
3 5 (0.58%) REST
3 5 (0.58%) Web Services
4 3 (0.35%) .NET
4 3 (0.35%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.35%) Next.js
4 3 (0.35%) Node.js
4 3 (0.35%) OAuth
4 3 (0.35%) React
4 3 (0.35%) RESTful
4 3 (0.35%) web3js
5 2 (0.23%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.23%) EDI
5 2 (0.23%) LDAP
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.23%) OpenID
5 2 (0.23%) SAML
5 2 (0.23%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 150 (17.52%) Security Operations Centre
2 121 (14.14%) Management Information System
3 109 (12.73%) Cyber Threat
4 80 (9.35%) Cyberattack
5 63 (7.36%) Security Posture
6 57 (6.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 56 (6.54%) Cyber Defence
8 27 (3.15%) Data Centre
9 26 (3.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 25 (2.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 21 (2.45%) IoT
11 21 (2.45%) Operational Technology
12 20 (2.34%) Onboarding
13 19 (2.22%) Client/Server
13 19 (2.22%) Cyber Security Posture
14 18 (2.10%) PKI
15 17 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
16 12 (1.40%) Cloud Native
17 10 (1.17%) Public Cloud
17 10 (1.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 172 (20.09%) Windows
2 89 (10.40%) Linux
3 65 (7.59%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.87%) Android
4 16 (1.87%) Apple iOS
5 14 (1.64%) Unix
6 13 (1.52%) Windows 10
7 10 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.70%) Mac OS X
9 6 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.58%) Kali Linux
10 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.47%) CentOS
11 4 (0.47%) Solaris
11 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.47%) zOS
12 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 616 (71.96%) Cybersecurity
2 327 (38.20%) Security Operations
3 261 (30.49%) Incident Response
4 252 (29.44%) Information Security
5 215 (25.12%) Vulnerability Management
6 153 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
7 125 (14.60%) Cloud Security
8 108 (12.62%) Incident Management
9 104 (12.15%) SOAR
10 91 (10.63%) Threat Intelligence
11 89 (10.40%) Identity Access Management
12 86 (10.05%) Security Architecture
13 83 (9.70%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 80 (9.35%) ITIL
15 79 (9.23%) Data Loss Prevention
16 78 (9.11%) Kalman Filter
17 77 (9.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
18 76 (8.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
19 74 (8.64%) Penetration Testing
20 66 (7.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 99 (11.57%) Python
2 85 (9.93%) PowerShell
3 46 (5.37%) SQL
4 42 (4.91%) Bash
5 14 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.58%) Java
8 3 (0.35%) C#
9 2 (0.23%) VBScript
10 1 (0.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 223 (26.05%) Security Cleared
2 193 (22.55%) CISSP
3 132 (15.42%) Degree
4 109 (12.73%) SC Cleared
5 106 (12.38%) DV Cleared
6 63 (7.36%) CompTIA Security+
7 53 (6.19%) Cisco Certification
7 53 (6.19%) CISM
8 47 (5.49%) CEH
9 44 (5.14%) CISA
10 43 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
11 42 (4.91%) CCSP
12 36 (4.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 31 (3.62%) CompTIA CySA+
14 30 (3.50%) Master's Degree
14 30 (3.50%) SANS
15 24 (2.80%) Azure Certification
15 24 (2.80%) SSCP
16 21 (2.45%) GIAC
17 20 (2.34%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (23.01%) NIST
2 192 (22.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 72 (8.41%) PCI DSS
4 70 (8.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 47 (5.49%) GDPR
6 40 (4.67%) NCSC
7 34 (3.97%) SOC 2
8 23 (2.69%) GRC
9 21 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 19 (2.22%) NIST 800
11 14 (1.64%) HIPAA
12 13 (1.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.70%) QA
15 5 (0.58%) COBIT
15 5 (0.58%) Data Quality
15 5 (0.58%) SLA
16 4 (0.47%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.35%) HMG Infosec
17 3 (0.35%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 78 (9.11%) Active Directory
2 33 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (3.74%) vSphere
4 23 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (1.29%) VMware Workstation
7 10 (1.17%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.05%) Docker
8 9 (1.05%) Forefront TMG
9 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.23%) XenApp
11 1 (0.12%) Snort
11 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 53 (6.19%) CASB
2 33 (3.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (3.86%) QRadar
3 19 (2.22%) CSIRT
4 18 (2.10%) Kubernetes
4 18 (2.10%) logstash
5 17 (1.99%) Nessus
6 15 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.64%) Nmap
7 14 (1.64%) Terraform
8 13 (1.52%) Fluentd
8 13 (1.52%) WSUS
9 11 (1.29%) Ansible
10 9 (1.05%) SCOM
11 5 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.58%) Suricata
12 4 (0.47%) SCCM
13 3 (0.35%) ZENworks
14 2 (0.23%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 222 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 134 (15.65%) Splunk
3 45 (5.26%) Cisco
4 35 (4.09%) Qualys
4 35 (4.09%) VMware
5 34 (3.97%) Juniper
6 33 (3.86%) SolarWinds
7 32 (3.74%) Rapid7
8 26 (3.04%) Tanium
8 26 (3.04%) Tripwire
9 24 (2.80%) ServiceNow
10 22 (2.57%) IBM
11 19 (2.22%) McAfee
12 16 (1.87%) ArcSight
12 16 (1.87%) Palo Alto
13 14 (1.64%) CheckPoint
13 14 (1.64%) Thycotic
14 13 (1.52%) Darktrace
15 12 (1.40%) Carbon Black
15 12 (1.40%) CrowdStrike