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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 108 135
Rank change year-on-year +16 +27 +29
Contract jobs citing SIEM 24 21 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.36% 0.95% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.04% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 26
10th Percentile £450 £419 £463
25th Percentile £475 £456 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £643
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -6.61% -4.81%
75th Percentile £700 £856 £775
90th Percentile £743 £925 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £583 £643
% change year-on-year -1.29% -9.34% +7.08%

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 1,644 2,011 3,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.93% 90.50% 91.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,046 1,422 2,249
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.13 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -42.20% +5.49%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £48.57 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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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 26 April 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 9 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (12.50%) GitHub
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%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) Datadog
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (20.83%) Network Security
3 3 (12.50%) SMTP
3 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (12.50%) VPN
4 2 (8.33%) DNS
4 2 (8.33%) FTP
4 2 (8.33%) HTTP
4 2 (8.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (8.33%) SSL
4 2 (8.33%) WAN
5 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (4.17%) VLAN
5 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Big Data
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Banking
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Retail
4 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Security Manager
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Architect
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Security Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Lead
3 2 (8.33%) Lead Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Operational Security Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Operations Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Security Operations Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Security Technical Architect
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
3 2 (8.33%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Services Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) .NET
1 2 (8.33%) Ajax
1 2 (8.33%) HTML
1 2 (8.33%) SailPoint
1 2 (8.33%) SOAP
1 2 (8.33%) Web Services
1 2 (8.33%) XML
2 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 4 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) CMDB
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.17%) CSOC
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Incident Response
2 8 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 7 (29.17%) DevOps
4 6 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
5 5 (20.83%) Project Management
5 5 (20.83%) Threat Detection
5 5 (20.83%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (16.67%) Agile
6 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 4 (16.67%) Microservices
6 4 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (16.67%) Security Architecture
6 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 3 (12.50%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.33%) C#
2 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) CISSP
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 2 (8.33%) CCSP
2 2 (8.33%) CISA
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.33%) CISM
3 1 (4.17%) CASP
3 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.17%) GCIA
3 1 (4.17%) GCIH
3 1 (4.17%) GIAC
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (20.83%) NIST
2 2 (8.33%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) NIST 800
3 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.33%) PingFederate
1 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) QRadar
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Splunk
2 4 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.33%) CyberArk
4 2 (8.33%) Okta
4 2 (8.33%) Ping Identity
4 2 (8.33%) Planview
4 2 (8.33%) Rapid7
5 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) LogRhythm
5 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.17%) Tenable
5 1 (4.17%) VMware