SIEM Contracts in the City of London

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 101 143
Rank change year-on-year +6 +42 +31
Contract jobs citing SIEM 24 25 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.31% 1.06% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.19% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 24
10th Percentile £450 £419 £439
25th Percentile £475 £475 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -9.68% -22.50%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £703
90th Percentile £728 £925 £784
Central London median daily rate £575 £538 £581
% change year-on-year +6.98% -7.53% -13.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,679 2,102 3,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.85% 89.52% 91.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,045 1,497 2,326
10th Percentile £363 £350 £359
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £567 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -5.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.38% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 37
10th Percentile £22.00 £17.00 £16.97
25th Percentile £26.25 £18.93 £18.75
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.00% -28.57% -19.54%
75th Percentile £47.50 £41.84 £58.75
90th Percentile £112.00 £49.55 £86.47
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.85% -20.54% -19.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 March 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (8.33%) AWS KMS
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) Network Security
2 3 (12.50%) VPN
3 2 (8.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (8.33%) WAN
4 1 (4.17%) SMTP
4 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Big Data
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Security Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Information Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Information Security Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Operational Security Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Operations Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Security Operations Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Security Technical Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Ajax
1 3 (12.50%) HTML
1 3 (12.50%) SOAP
1 3 (12.50%) Web Services
1 3 (12.50%) XML
2 2 (8.33%) SailPoint
3 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.50%) CMDB
2 3 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.33%) CSOC
3 2 (8.33%) e-Learning
3 2 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 9 (37.50%) Security Operations
2 9 (37.50%) Threat Intelligence
3 8 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (25.00%) Information Security
4 6 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 6 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 5 (20.83%) Project Management
6 4 (16.67%) Analytics
6 4 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 4 (16.67%) ITSM
6 4 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Security Architecture
6 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (16.67%) Use Case
7 3 (12.50%) DevOps
7 3 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) CISSP
2 4 (16.67%) CISM
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 2 (8.33%) CCSP
3 2 (8.33%) CISA
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) CASP
4 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.17%) GCIA
4 1 (4.17%) GCIH
4 1 (4.17%) GIAC
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (16.67%) NIST
3 3 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (12.50%) GDPR
4 2 (8.33%) NIST 800
5 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
5 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.33%) PingFederate
1 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Splunk
2 5 (20.83%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco
3 2 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Okta
3 2 (8.33%) Ping Identity
3 2 (8.33%) Planview
3 2 (8.33%) Rapid7
4 1 (4.17%) LogRhythm
4 1 (4.17%) MobileIron