SIEM Engineer Contracts

SIEM Engineer
UK

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in the UK is £800, 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 533 657 813
Rank change year-on-year +124 +156 -127
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 51 40 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.072% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.076% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 26 25
10th Percentile £526 - -
25th Percentile £550 £470 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £601 £313
Median % change year-on-year +33.06% +92.40% -40.48%
75th Percentile £825 £669 £600
90th Percentile £850 £694 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £470 £313
% change year-on-year +17.02% +50.40% -40.48%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in the UK

SIEM Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM Engineer in the UK

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for SIEM Engineer in the UK

SIEM Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM Engineer 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 +105 50 £800 +33.06% 7
London +102 29 £800 +23.08% 4
UK excluding London +27 20 £550 +17.02% 7
West Midlands +28 13 £550 - 1
Midlands +27 13 £550 - 1
Work from Home +112 6 £800 - 8
South West - 4 £800 - 1
Yorkshire +15 2 £800 +18.52%
North of England +10 2 £800 +34.45% 2
South East +6 1 £625 +32.98%

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, SIEM Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (100.00%) SIEM
2 33 (64.71%) Elasticsearch
3 28 (54.90%) Security Cleared
4 26 (50.98%) DV Cleared
5 17 (33.33%) Observability
6 15 (29.41%) Kibana
6 15 (29.41%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (29.41%) logstash
7 14 (27.45%) Linux
8 12 (23.53%) Windows
8 12 (23.53%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 12 (23.53%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (21.57%) Splunk
10 10 (19.61%) Ubuntu
11 9 (17.65%) Active Directory
11 9 (17.65%) Visualisation
11 9 (17.65%) iptables
11 9 (17.65%) RBAC
12 8 (15.69%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (15.69%) DataOps
12 8 (15.69%) R
12 8 (15.69%) CISSP
13 7 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
14 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
15 5 (9.80%) Finance
15 5 (9.80%) ArcSight
15 5 (9.80%) Incident Response
16 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared
16 4 (7.84%) Firewall
16 4 (7.84%) Banking

SIEM Engineer 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 1 (1.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) Firewall
2 3 (5.88%) FTP
2 3 (5.88%) HTTP
2 3 (5.88%) ICMP
2 3 (5.88%) POP3
2 3 (5.88%) SMTP
2 3 (5.88%) SSH
2 3 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.96%) BGP
3 1 (1.96%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.96%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.96%) Network Security
3 1 (1.96%) OSPF
3 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (64.71%) Elasticsearch
General
1 5 (9.80%) Finance
2 4 (7.84%) Banking
3 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.92%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Military
5 1 (1.96%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (29.41%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.53%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (3.92%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (3.92%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.96%) CSOC
4 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (27.45%) Linux
2 12 (23.53%) Windows
3 10 (19.61%) Ubuntu
4 3 (5.88%) Unix
5 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) SIEM
2 17 (33.33%) Observability
3 12 (23.53%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 9 (17.65%) RBAC
4 9 (17.65%) Visualisation
5 8 (15.69%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (15.69%) DataOps
6 7 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (9.80%) Incident Response
8 3 (5.88%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (5.88%) Mentoring
8 3 (5.88%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 3 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (5.88%) Security Monitoring
8 3 (5.88%) Use Case
9 2 (3.92%) Incident Management
9 2 (3.92%) Information Security
9 2 (3.92%) Protective Monitoring
9 2 (3.92%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.69%) R
2 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.96%) Bash
3 1 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.96%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (54.90%) Security Cleared
2 26 (50.98%) DV Cleared
3 8 (15.69%) CISSP
4 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) Degree
5 1 (1.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) NIST
2 1 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.96%) GDPR
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.96%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) Active Directory
1 9 (17.65%) iptables
Systems Management
1 15 (29.41%) Kibana
1 15 (29.41%) logstash
2 3 (5.88%) QRadar
3 2 (3.92%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) Splunk
2 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.80%) ArcSight
4 3 (5.88%) Google
5 1 (1.96%) AlgoSec
5 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco
5 1 (1.96%) FireEye
5 1 (1.96%) McAfee
5 1 (1.96%) Okta
5 1 (1.96%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.96%) SolarWinds
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