SIEM Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 165 306
Rank change year-on-year -214 +141 -6
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 475 1,152 873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 2.07% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 2.17% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 394 387 481
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,497
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -1.70% +6.36%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,618 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.80% -3.66% +5.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,107 53,150 71,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.14% 95.49% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,360 28,415 41,497
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SIEM in the UK excluding London

SIEM
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England -48 145 £56,500 +7.62% 36
South East -88 142 £58,750 +2.17% 29
South West -73 82 £90,000 +28.57% 11
Yorkshire +44 63 £65,000 +62.50% 14
North West -81 58 £47,500 -18.10% 22
East of England -32 33 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Midlands -170 31 £52,500 -5.41% 20
North East +6 24 £42,500 -43.33%
Scotland -193 23 £47,000 -19.50% 14
West Midlands -94 19 £52,500 -19.23% 16
East Midlands -101 12 £52,500 +10.53% 4
Wales -49 10 £58,750 +6.82% 1
Northern Ireland +4 6 £90,000 +176.92% 2
Isle of Man -16 2 - -
Channel Islands - 1 - -
SIEM
UK

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 12 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.05%) IIS
4 2 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 188 (39.58%) Azure
2 90 (18.95%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (12.42%) AWS
4 42 (8.84%) Azure Sentinel
5 26 (5.47%) Entra ID
6 23 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
7 12 (2.53%) SaaS
8 9 (1.89%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.47%) IaaS
10 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (1.26%) Twilio
11 5 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.05%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.05%) PaaS
12 4 (0.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 3 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.63%) AWS Control Tower
13 3 (0.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 150 (31.58%) Firewall
2 84 (17.68%) Network Security
3 70 (14.74%) Intrusion Detection
4 41 (8.63%) Internet
5 39 (8.21%) DNS
6 33 (6.95%) TCP/IP
7 26 (5.47%) LAN
7 26 (5.47%) WAN
8 24 (5.05%) DKIM
8 24 (5.05%) DMARC
9 20 (4.21%) VPN
10 11 (2.32%) DHCP
10 11 (2.32%) Wireshark
11 9 (1.89%) SD-WAN
11 9 (1.89%) Wireless
12 4 (0.84%) HTTP
12 4 (0.84%) SMTP
12 4 (0.84%) tcpdump
13 3 (0.63%) WLAN
14 2 (0.42%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.68%) Power BI
2 6 (1.26%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.63%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.42%) Big Data
5 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.42%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.21%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 11 (2.32%) JIRA
2 3 (0.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.42%) Git
4 1 (0.21%) Snyk
General
1 112 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 97 (20.42%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (10.74%) Finance
4 27 (5.68%) Law
5 23 (4.84%) Military
6 18 (3.79%) Public Sector
7 17 (3.58%) Legal
8 16 (3.37%) Aerospace
9 15 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.16%) Retail
10 12 (2.53%) Banking
11 11 (2.32%) Marketing
12 10 (2.11%) Games
13 8 (1.68%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.26%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.42%) Electronics
15 2 (0.42%) Publishing
16 1 (0.21%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 187 (39.37%) Analyst
2 123 (25.89%) Security Analyst
3 67 (14.11%) Lead
3 67 (14.11%) Senior
4 61 (12.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 57 (12.00%) Security Engineer
6 50 (10.53%) SOC Analyst
7 44 (9.26%) Senior Analyst
8 41 (8.63%) Architect
9 38 (8.00%) Consultant
10 36 (7.58%) Security Consultant
11 35 (7.37%) Information Analyst
11 35 (7.37%) Information Security Analyst
12 30 (6.32%) Team Leader
13 25 (5.26%) Senior Security Analyst
14 22 (4.63%) Security Manager
15 20 (4.21%) Network Architect
16 19 (4.00%) SIEM Engineer
17 18 (3.79%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 18 (3.79%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.58%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (2.32%) Fluent Bit
3 5 (1.05%) Web Services
4 3 (0.63%) OAuth
4 3 (0.63%) OpenID
4 3 (0.63%) SAML
5 1 (0.21%) EDI
5 1 (0.21%) LDAP
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 108 (22.74%) Security Operations Centre
2 70 (14.74%) Management Information System
3 62 (13.05%) Cyber Threat
4 49 (10.32%) Cyberattack
5 47 (9.89%) Security Posture
6 32 (6.74%) Cyber Defence
6 32 (6.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 18 (3.79%) Cyber Security Posture
8 16 (3.37%) Data Centre
8 16 (3.37%) IoT
8 16 (3.37%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.74%) Client/Server
10 11 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.89%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.68%) Cloud Native
12 8 (1.68%) iPad
12 8 (1.68%) Social Media
13 7 (1.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 5 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 93 (19.58%) Windows
2 44 (9.26%) Linux
3 32 (6.74%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.89%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.26%) Android
5 6 (1.26%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.26%) Unix
5 6 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.05%) Kali Linux
6 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.63%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (70.74%) Cybersecurity
2 187 (39.37%) Security Operations
3 162 (34.11%) Incident Response
4 131 (27.58%) Information Security
5 122 (25.68%) Vulnerability Management
6 116 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
7 82 (17.26%) Cloud Security
8 74 (15.58%) SOAR
9 59 (12.42%) Kalman Filter
10 57 (12.00%) Mentoring
11 48 (10.11%) ITIL
12 47 (9.89%) Incident Management
12 47 (9.89%) Threat Intelligence
12 47 (9.89%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 44 (9.26%) Data Loss Prevention
14 41 (8.63%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 40 (8.42%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 40 (8.42%) Security Architecture
16 39 (8.21%) Identity Access Management
17 38 (8.00%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (10.53%) Python
2 37 (7.79%) PowerShell
3 22 (4.63%) Bash
4 10 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
4 10 (2.11%) SQL
5 3 (0.63%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.21%) Go
Qualifications
1 127 (26.74%) Security Cleared
2 92 (19.37%) CISSP
3 78 (16.42%) Degree
4 57 (12.00%) DV Cleared
4 57 (12.00%) SC Cleared
5 52 (10.95%) CompTIA Security+
6 31 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (4.63%) CEH
8 20 (4.21%) CISA
9 17 (3.58%) CISM
9 17 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (3.16%) SANS
10 15 (3.16%) SSCP
11 14 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (2.95%) CompTIA CySA+
12 13 (2.74%) GIAC
12 13 (2.74%) Master's Degree
13 11 (2.32%) AWS Certification
14 10 (2.11%) Azure Certification
15 9 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (23.79%) NIST
2 95 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (9.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 42 (8.84%) PCI DSS
5 27 (5.68%) GDPR
6 22 (4.63%) NIST 800
7 19 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 17 (3.58%) NCSC
9 16 (3.37%) SOC 2
10 7 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (1.26%) GRC
12 5 (1.05%) QA
13 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.63%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.63%) HMG Infosec
13 3 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.63%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.63%) RMADS
14 1 (0.21%) COBIT
14 1 (0.21%) IASME
System Software
1 46 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 19 (4.00%) vSphere
3 16 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.05%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (0.84%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.63%) Docker
8 3 (0.63%) Forefront TMG
9 2 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.21%) Snort
10 1 (0.21%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 34 (7.16%) CASB
2 13 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.74%) Nessus
3 12 (2.53%) logstash
4 11 (2.32%) Fluentd
5 10 (2.11%) Terraform
6 9 (1.89%) CSIRT
6 9 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.05%) Kubernetes
7 5 (1.05%) Nmap
7 5 (1.05%) Suricata
8 4 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.84%) WSUS
9 3 (0.63%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.63%) QRadar
9 3 (0.63%) SCOM
10 2 (0.42%) Ansible
10 2 (0.42%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 134 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 78 (16.42%) Splunk
3 21 (4.42%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.21%) Cisco
5 19 (4.00%) Rapid7
6 18 (3.79%) VMware
7 16 (3.37%) Tanium
7 16 (3.37%) Tripwire
8 15 (3.16%) SolarWinds
9 11 (2.32%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (1.89%) McAfee
11 8 (1.68%) AlienVault
11 8 (1.68%) Juniper
11 8 (1.68%) Qualys
12 7 (1.47%) LogRhythm
12 7 (1.47%) Proofpoint
13 6 (1.26%) Datto
13 6 (1.26%) Intel
13 6 (1.26%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.05%) Thycotic