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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 212 371
Rank change year-on-year -124 +159 -36
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 865 1,656 1,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 1.75% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.83% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 708 745 1,029
10th Percentile £38,500 £38,500 £38,367
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,618 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -3.66% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £83,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% +5.45%

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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -71 805 £65,000 +4.00% 204
UK excluding London -191 478 £60,000 +4.35% 130
London +71 364 £70,000 +3.70% 86
Work from Home -18 323 £60,000 -7.69% 95
North of England -30 145 £56,500 +7.62% 46
South East -93 144 £57,500 - 33
South West -70 78 £90,000 +28.57% 14
Yorkshire +45 62 £62,500 +50.60% 17
North West -75 59 £47,000 -18.97% 28
East of England -19 34 £62,500 -3.85% 2
Midlands -148 33 £52,500 -7.49% 16
Scotland -185 25 £47,000 -20.60% 16
North East +12 24 £42,500 -40.35% 1
West Midlands -94 20 £57,983 -10.80% 13
East Midlands -81 13 £52,500 +10.53% 3
Wales -46 11 £58,750 +6.82% 1
Northern Ireland +9 6 £90,000 +176.92% 1
Isle of Man -18 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 43 (4.97%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.39%) IIS
4 2 (0.23%) Apache
4 2 (0.23%) CMS
4 2 (0.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 295 (34.10%) Azure
2 152 (17.57%) Microsoft 365
3 129 (14.91%) AWS
4 75 (8.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 45 (5.20%) Cloud Computing
6 36 (4.16%) SaaS
7 35 (4.05%) Entra ID
8 26 (3.01%) GCP
9 24 (2.77%) Microsoft Purview
10 21 (2.43%) IaaS
10 21 (2.43%) PaaS
11 16 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.73%) Power Platform
13 9 (1.04%) Azure AKS
14 7 (0.81%) Amazon S3
14 7 (0.81%) GitHub
15 6 (0.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 6 (0.69%) Twilio
16 5 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (0.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 319 (36.88%) Firewall
2 148 (17.11%) Network Security
3 113 (13.06%) Intrusion Detection
4 69 (7.98%) WAN
5 65 (7.51%) LAN
6 64 (7.40%) TCP/IP
7 53 (6.13%) DNS
8 50 (5.78%) Internet
9 35 (4.05%) VPN
10 30 (3.47%) DKIM
10 30 (3.47%) DMARC
10 30 (3.47%) Wireshark
11 25 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (2.66%) SD-WAN
13 18 (2.08%) Wireless
14 14 (1.62%) DHCP
15 11 (1.27%) BGP
15 11 (1.27%) VLAN
16 10 (1.16%) DMZ
16 10 (1.16%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.62%) Power BI
1 14 (1.62%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.69%) Hadoop
2 6 (0.69%) Relational Database
3 5 (0.58%) BigQuery
3 5 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.23%) Big Data
5 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.23%) Redis
6 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (1.62%) Jenkins
2 13 (1.50%) JIRA
3 3 (0.35%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.23%) Git
5 1 (0.12%) Snyk
General
1 191 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 179 (20.69%) Finance
3 123 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (7.17%) Law
5 53 (6.13%) Banking
6 37 (4.28%) Military
7 33 (3.82%) Public Sector
8 32 (3.70%) Legal
9 28 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (2.66%) Aerospace
10 23 (2.66%) Games
10 23 (2.66%) Retail
11 14 (1.62%) Marketing
12 10 (1.16%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.46%) Advertising
16 4 (0.46%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 358 (41.39%) Analyst
2 231 (26.71%) Security Analyst
3 155 (17.92%) Senior
4 132 (15.26%) Security Engineer
5 102 (11.79%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 87 (10.06%) Lead
7 86 (9.94%) SOC Analyst
8 83 (9.60%) Senior Analyst
9 70 (8.09%) Consultant
10 63 (7.28%) Security Consultant
11 61 (7.05%) Information Analyst
11 61 (7.05%) Information Security Analyst
12 59 (6.82%) Architect
13 51 (5.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 50 (5.78%) IT Analyst
14 50 (5.78%) IT Security Analyst
14 50 (5.78%) Senior Security Analyst
15 42 (4.86%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 37 (4.28%) Senior Security Engineer
17 33 (3.82%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (1.39%) Fluent Bit
3 5 (0.58%) Kafka
3 5 (0.58%) Web Services
4 4 (0.46%) LDAP
4 4 (0.46%) REST
5 3 (0.35%) OAuth
5 3 (0.35%) Sass
5 3 (0.35%) web3js
6 2 (0.23%) .NET
6 2 (0.23%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.23%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.23%) EDI
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.23%) Next.js
6 2 (0.23%) Node.js
6 2 (0.23%) OpenID
6 2 (0.23%) React
6 2 (0.23%) RESTful
6 2 (0.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 151 (17.46%) Security Operations Centre
2 129 (14.91%) Management Information System
3 99 (11.45%) Cyber Threat
4 78 (9.02%) Cyberattack
5 69 (7.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 62 (7.17%) Cyber Defence
7 61 (7.05%) Security Posture
8 26 (3.01%) Data Centre
9 23 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 23 (2.66%) Onboarding
10 22 (2.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 19 (2.20%) Client/Server
11 19 (2.20%) IoT
12 18 (2.08%) Cyber Security Posture
12 18 (2.08%) Operational Technology
13 16 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (1.73%) PKI
15 14 (1.62%) Cloud Native
16 10 (1.16%) Product Ownership
16 10 (1.16%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 174 (20.12%) Windows
2 87 (10.06%) Linux
3 71 (8.21%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.31%) Unix
5 16 (1.85%) Android
5 16 (1.85%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.39%) Windows 10
7 10 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.81%) CentOS
10 6 (0.69%) Mac OS X
10 6 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.58%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.46%) Solaris
12 4 (0.46%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.46%) Windows XP
12 4 (0.46%) zOS
13 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (71.33%) Cybersecurity
2 317 (36.65%) Security Operations
3 274 (31.68%) Incident Response
4 267 (30.87%) Information Security
5 211 (24.39%) Vulnerability Management
6 159 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
7 135 (15.61%) Cloud Security
8 122 (14.10%) Incident Management
9 101 (11.68%) SOAR
10 94 (10.87%) Threat Intelligence
11 90 (10.40%) Identity Access Management
12 89 (10.29%) Data Loss Prevention
13 84 (9.71%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 82 (9.48%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 80 (9.25%) Security Architecture
16 79 (9.13%) ITIL
17 78 (9.02%) MITRE ATT&CK
18 74 (8.55%) Kalman Filter
19 71 (8.21%) Mentoring
20 70 (8.09%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 104 (12.02%) Python
2 85 (9.83%) PowerShell
3 48 (5.55%) SQL
4 38 (4.39%) Bash
5 14 (1.62%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (0.92%) Java
7 5 (0.58%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.23%) C#
8 2 (0.23%) Perl
9 1 (0.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 213 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 206 (23.82%) CISSP
3 133 (15.38%) Degree
4 109 (12.60%) DV Cleared
5 102 (11.79%) SC Cleared
6 67 (7.75%) CISM
7 56 (6.47%) CompTIA Security+
8 51 (5.90%) CISA
9 49 (5.66%) CEH
10 47 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (5.09%) Cisco Certification
12 34 (3.93%) CCSP
13 29 (3.35%) SANS
14 28 (3.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 27 (3.12%) CompTIA CySA+
15 27 (3.12%) Master's Degree
16 25 (2.89%) SSCP
17 23 (2.66%) Azure Certification
18 22 (2.54%) GIAC
19 20 (2.31%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (23.35%) NIST
2 191 (22.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 72 (8.32%) PCI DSS
4 69 (7.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 46 (5.32%) GDPR
6 42 (4.86%) NCSC
7 27 (3.12%) SOC 2
8 25 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 25 (2.89%) GRC
9 21 (2.43%) NIST 800
10 16 (1.85%) HIPAA
11 12 (1.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 11 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.92%) COBIT
14 5 (0.58%) Data Quality
14 5 (0.58%) QA
15 4 (0.46%) SLA
16 3 (0.35%) HMG Infosec
16 3 (0.35%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 72 (8.32%) Active Directory
2 36 (4.16%) vSphere
3 29 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (1.27%) VMware Workstation
7 10 (1.16%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.04%) Docker
8 9 (1.04%) Forefront TMG
9 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.12%) Snort
10 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 54 (6.24%) CASB
2 34 (3.93%) QRadar
3 30 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (2.31%) Ansible
4 20 (2.31%) Kubernetes
5 19 (2.20%) CSIRT
6 18 (2.08%) logstash
6 18 (2.08%) Nessus
7 17 (1.97%) Terraform
8 15 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (1.62%) Nmap
10 12 (1.39%) Fluentd
10 12 (1.39%) WSUS
11 9 (1.04%) SCOM
12 5 (0.58%) Suricata
13 4 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.46%) SCCM
14 3 (0.35%) ZENworks
15 2 (0.23%) FortiGate
15 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 220 (25.43%) Microsoft
2 128 (14.80%) Splunk
3 47 (5.43%) Cisco
4 37 (4.28%) Qualys
5 36 (4.16%) SolarWinds
6 35 (4.05%) Juniper
6 35 (4.05%) VMware
7 31 (3.58%) Rapid7
8 30 (3.47%) Tripwire
9 29 (3.35%) Tanium
10 28 (3.24%) ServiceNow
11 23 (2.66%) McAfee
12 22 (2.54%) IBM
13 16 (1.85%) ArcSight
13 16 (1.85%) Palo Alto
14 15 (1.73%) Carbon Black
15 14 (1.62%) Atlassian
15 14 (1.62%) CheckPoint
15 14 (1.62%) Thycotic
16 13 (1.50%) Fortinet