SIEM Analyst Contracts

SIEM Analyst
UK

The median SIEM Analyst daily rate in the UK is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 686 839
Rank change year-on-year +111 +153 -110
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Analyst 9 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.020% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.021% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 7
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile £425 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -13.64% +46.67%
75th Percentile £665 £572 -
90th Percentile £673 £660 £592
UK excluding London median daily rate £593 £473 £538
% change year-on-year +25.40% -12.09% -6.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM Analyst in the UK

SIEM Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for SIEM Analyst in the UK

SIEM Analyst
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM Analyst within the UK 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
England +84 9 £513 +7.89%
UK excluding London +26 5 £593 +25.40%
London +83 4 £450 -5.26%
South West +3 4 £525 +16.67%
Work from Home +116 2 £450 -9.09%
South East +14 1 £661 +1.64%

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, SIEM Analyst contract 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 contract job ads featuring SIEM Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) SIEM
2 8 (88.89%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (88.89%) Incident Response
3 6 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 6 (66.67%) Information Security
4 5 (55.56%) Management Information System
4 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
5 4 (44.44%) Use Case
5 4 (44.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 4 (44.44%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (44.44%) DV Cleared
5 4 (44.44%) Threat Intelligence
5 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
5 4 (44.44%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
6 3 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (33.33%) NIST
6 3 (33.33%) SOAR
6 3 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring
6 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (33.33%) NIST 800
6 3 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (33.33%) Case Management
6 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
6 3 (33.33%) Degree
6 3 (33.33%) Firewall
6 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 3 (33.33%) Linux

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 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Electronics
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (55.56%) Management Information System
3 4 (44.44%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (22.22%) CSOC
5 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) SIEM
2 8 (88.89%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (88.89%) Incident Response
3 6 (66.67%) Information Security
3 6 (66.67%) Security Operations
4 4 (44.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
4 4 (44.44%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 4 (44.44%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (44.44%) Use Case
5 3 (33.33%) Case Management
5 3 (33.33%) CRM
5 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 3 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring
5 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (33.33%) SOAR
6 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 2 (22.22%) Information Assurance
6 2 (22.22%) Remediation Plan
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) DV Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) Degree
4 2 (22.22%) GCIA
4 2 (22.22%) GCIH
4 2 (22.22%) GIAC
5 1 (11.11%) SANS
5 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) NIST
1 3 (33.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) CSIRT
1 2 (22.22%) Kibana
1 2 (22.22%) logstash
1 2 (22.22%) Nessus
1 2 (22.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Tanium
3 1 (11.11%) SAP