SIEM Analyst Jobs

SIEM Analyst
UK

The median SIEM Analyst salary in the UK is £51,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 896 935 1216
Rank change year-on-year +39 +281 -290
Permanent jobs requiring a SIEM Analyst 11 12 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.013% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.014% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 31
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £48,125 £38,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £56,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -33.82% +86.30%
75th Percentile £53,750 £70,938 £122,500
90th Percentile £58,250 £77,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £49,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

SIEM Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Analyst in the UK

SIEM Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SIEM Analyst.

Salary trend for SIEM Analyst in the UK

SIEM Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM Analyst over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SIEM Analyst in the UK

SIEM Analyst
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM Analyst 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 +35 11 £51,250 -8.89%
Work from Home +46 8 £51,250 -31.67%
London +116 7 £52,500 -19.23%
UK excluding London -35 4 £45,000 -9.09%
South East -7 2 £45,000 -40.00%
Yorkshire +61 1 - -
North of England +31 1 - -
South West -26 1 £50,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, SIEM Analyst 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 permanent job ads featuring SIEM Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) SIEM
1 11 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (90.91%) Security Operations
3 6 (54.55%) Security Monitoring
3 6 (54.55%) Incident Response
3 6 (54.55%) Splunk
4 4 (36.36%) QRadar
4 4 (36.36%) Firewall
4 4 (36.36%) CISSP
4 4 (36.36%) Finance
4 4 (36.36%) IBM
4 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
5 3 (27.27%) Runbook
5 3 (27.27%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (27.27%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 3 (27.27%) Client/Server
5 3 (27.27%) Law
5 3 (27.27%) Security Management
5 3 (27.27%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (18.18%) GISP
6 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
6 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
6 2 (18.18%) Azure
6 2 (18.18%) AWS
6 2 (18.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (18.18%) GCFE
6 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management

SIEM Analyst 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 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (18.18%) Network Security
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Law
2 3 (27.27%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Client/Server
1 3 (27.27%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (9.09%) Cyberattack
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (100.00%) SIEM
2 10 (90.91%) Security Operations
3 6 (54.55%) Incident Response
3 6 (54.55%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (27.27%) Runbook
4 3 (27.27%) Security Management
5 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 2 (18.18%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Use Case
5 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (9.09%) Application Security
6 1 (9.09%) Case Management
6 1 (9.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 1 (9.09%) SOAR
6 1 (9.09%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) CISSP
2 2 (18.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (18.18%) CCSP
2 2 (18.18%) CEH
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (18.18%) GCFE
2 2 (18.18%) GIAC
2 2 (18.18%) GISP
2 2 (18.18%) GSEC
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SSCP
3 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) NIST
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (9.09%) ISO 9001
3 1 (9.09%) NIST 800
3 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) QRadar
2 1 (9.09%) Kibana
2 1 (9.09%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Splunk
2 4 (36.36%) IBM
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) Darktrace
4 2 (18.18%) Sun
5 1 (9.09%) Tanium