SIEM Contracts in London

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring SIEM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SIEM over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 217 332
Rank change year-on-year +6 +115 -12
Contract jobs citing SIEM 194 302 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.10% 1.20% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.32% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 220 213
10th Percentile £425 £475 £413
25th Percentile £513 £525 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £706
90th Percentile £825 £838 £825
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.75 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.75 £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year -35.00% +13.98% +31.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

SIEM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in London

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM in London.

Daily rate trend for SIEM in London

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in London

SIEM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIEM in London.

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in London

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +28 24 £525 -19.23% 8
East London +1 7 £585 -7.14% 2
West London +14 4 £525 -38.24% 5
South London - 1 - -
SIEM
England

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (3.09%) Confluence
2 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 41 (21.13%) Azure
2 25 (12.89%) AWS
3 16 (8.25%) SaaS
4 14 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (5.15%) Entra ID
5 10 (5.15%) IaaS
6 9 (4.64%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (4.64%) GCP
7 6 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (1.55%) PaaS
10 2 (1.03%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (1.03%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.03%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.03%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 60 (30.93%) Firewall
2 20 (10.31%) Network Security
3 13 (6.70%) SD-WAN
3 13 (6.70%) WAN
4 9 (4.64%) HTTP
4 9 (4.64%) TCP/IP
5 8 (4.12%) DNS
6 4 (2.06%) FTP
6 4 (2.06%) HTTPS
6 4 (2.06%) SMTP
6 4 (2.06%) VPN
7 3 (1.55%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.55%) DHCP
7 3 (1.55%) ICMP
7 3 (1.55%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (1.55%) IPsec
7 3 (1.55%) POP3
7 3 (1.55%) SSH
8 2 (1.03%) Internet
8 2 (1.03%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.76%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.03%) Power BI
2 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.06%) JIRA
2 2 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) Git
General
1 75 (38.66%) Finance
2 36 (18.56%) Banking
3 25 (12.89%) Social Skills
4 14 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.06%) Retail
6 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.55%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.52%) Electronics
8 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.52%) Games
8 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.52%) Law
8 1 (0.52%) Marketing
8 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (25.77%) Security Engineer
2 39 (20.10%) Analyst
3 29 (14.95%) SIEM Engineer
4 26 (13.40%) Architect
5 22 (11.34%) Consultant
6 21 (10.82%) Security Consultant
7 17 (8.76%) ArcSight Engineer
8 16 (8.25%) Security Analyst
8 16 (8.25%) Security Architect
9 15 (7.73%) Senior
10 14 (7.22%) SOC Analyst
11 13 (6.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 11 (5.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 11 (5.67%) Lead
13 9 (4.64%) Network Engineer
13 9 (4.64%) Network Security Engineer
13 9 (4.64%) SOC Engineer
13 9 (4.64%) Splunk Engineer
14 7 (3.61%) IT Security Engineer
14 7 (3.61%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.64%) OpenID
2 7 (3.61%) JWT
3 5 (2.58%) SAML
4 4 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.55%) OAuth
6 2 (1.03%) JSON
6 2 (1.03%) Regular Expression
6 2 (1.03%) REST
6 2 (1.03%) RESTful
7 1 (0.52%) Ajax
7 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.52%) AWS SAM
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.52%) CSS
7 1 (0.52%) HTML
7 1 (0.52%) SOAP
7 1 (0.52%) Web Services
7 1 (0.52%) XML
7 1 (0.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.82%) Security Posture
2 18 (9.28%) Cyber Threat
3 17 (8.76%) PKI
4 10 (5.15%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (4.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 9 (4.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.64%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.61%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (2.58%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.06%) Cyberattack
8 4 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.06%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) IoT
10 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.25%) Windows
2 14 (7.22%) Linux
3 7 (3.61%) Unix
4 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (43.81%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (26.80%) Cloud Security
3 34 (17.53%) Information Security
4 33 (17.01%) Security Operations
5 32 (16.49%) Incident Response
6 31 (15.98%) Vulnerability Management
7 30 (15.46%) Data Loss Prevention
8 22 (11.34%) Identity Access Management
8 22 (11.34%) Penetration Testing
9 21 (10.82%) Use Case
10 19 (9.79%) Threat Detection
11 16 (8.25%) Observability
11 16 (8.25%) Security Architecture
11 16 (8.25%) Threat Intelligence
12 14 (7.22%) Roadmaps
12 14 (7.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 13 (6.70%) DevOps
13 13 (6.70%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (6.70%) Security Monitoring
13 13 (6.70%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 27 (13.92%) PowerShell
2 22 (11.34%) Python
3 9 (4.64%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (3.61%) Java
5 6 (3.09%) Bash
6 3 (1.55%) SQL
7 2 (1.03%) Bicep
7 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.52%) C#
8 1 (0.52%) Go
8 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (20.62%) CISSP
2 31 (15.98%) Security Cleared
3 26 (13.40%) Degree
4 19 (9.79%) DV Cleared
5 17 (8.76%) CISM
6 14 (7.22%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (7.22%) GIAC
7 12 (6.19%) CEH
8 11 (5.67%) CCNP
8 11 (5.67%) SC Cleared
9 9 (4.64%) GCIH
10 8 (4.12%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (3.61%) GCIA
12 5 (2.58%) CCIE
13 4 (2.06%) CCNA
13 4 (2.06%) CISA
13 4 (2.06%) SANS
14 3 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (1.55%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (18.56%) NIST
2 35 (18.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (6.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 9 (4.64%) PCI DSS
5 8 (4.12%) GDPR
6 4 (2.06%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.55%) GRC
7 3 (1.55%) QA
8 2 (1.03%) NCSC
8 2 (1.03%) SLA
9 1 (0.52%) GLBA
9 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.52%) ISAE 3402
9 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (6.19%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.06%) Docker
4 2 (1.03%) Snort
Systems Management
1 12 (6.19%) Kubernetes
1 12 (6.19%) QRadar
1 12 (6.19%) Terraform
2 9 (4.64%) Nessus
3 7 (3.61%) ArcSight ESM
4 5 (2.58%) CSIRT
4 5 (2.58%) logstash
5 4 (2.06%) Ansible
5 4 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.55%) CASB
6 3 (1.55%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.55%) Kibana
6 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.55%) SCCM
7 2 (1.03%) Grafana
7 2 (1.03%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (1.03%) PingFederate
7 2 (1.03%) WSUS
8 1 (0.52%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (21.13%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.37%) Splunk
3 20 (10.31%) ArcSight
4 14 (7.22%) Cisco
5 10 (5.15%) LogRhythm
6 9 (4.64%) Palo Alto
7 8 (4.12%) Rapid7
8 6 (3.09%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.58%) CheckPoint
9 5 (2.58%) Google
9 5 (2.58%) Oracle
10 4 (2.06%) BeyondTrust
10 4 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (2.06%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.55%) AlgoSec
11 3 (1.55%) AlienVault
11 3 (1.55%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.55%) FireEye
11 3 (1.55%) New Relic
11 3 (1.55%) Okta