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

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 105 139
Rank change year-on-year +13 +34 +32
Contract jobs citing SIEM 25 23 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.44% 1.00% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.11% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 29
10th Percentile £450 £419 £463
25th Percentile £475 £475 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £595 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -4.80% -16.67%
75th Percentile £700 £788 £750
90th Percentile £743 £925 £814
Central London median daily rate £575 £580 £625
% change year-on-year -0.86% -7.20% -16.67%

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 1,597 2,068 3,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.26% 89.80% 91.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,030 1,463 2,363
10th Percentile £365 £350 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +5.26%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £595
% change year-on-year +4.55% -7.56% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 30
10th Percentile £22.00 £18.93 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.07 £20.42
Median hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -45.65% +8.88%
75th Percentile £34.68 £40.92 £58.75
90th Percentile £51.75 £50.25 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -17.16%

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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 2 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 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (12.00%) GitHub
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (8.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (8.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) Datadog
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.00%) Network Security
3 3 (12.00%) SMTP
3 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (12.00%) VPN
4 2 (8.00%) DNS
4 2 (8.00%) FTP
4 2 (8.00%) HTTP
4 2 (8.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (8.00%) SSL
4 2 (8.00%) WAN
5 1 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (4.00%) VLAN
5 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Big Data
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Banking
3 4 (16.00%) Retail
4 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Security Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Security Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Security Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Operational Security Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Operations Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Security Operations Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Security Technical Architect
4 2 (8.00%) SOC Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Ajax
1 3 (12.00%) HTML
1 3 (12.00%) SOAP
1 3 (12.00%) Web Services
1 3 (12.00%) XML
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.00%) SailPoint
3 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) CMDB
1 3 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (12.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) CSOC
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 8 (32.00%) Security Operations
3 7 (28.00%) DevOps
3 7 (28.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 5 (20.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.00%) Project Management
4 5 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (16.00%) ITSM
5 4 (16.00%) Microservices
5 4 (16.00%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (16.00%) Security Architecture
5 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (16.00%) Task Automation
5 4 (16.00%) Threat Detection
5 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 3 (12.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) CISSP
1 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 2 (8.00%) CCSP
2 2 (8.00%) CISA
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.00%) CISM
3 1 (4.00%) CASP
3 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.00%) GCIA
3 1 (4.00%) GCIH
3 1 (4.00%) GIAC
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (20.00%) NIST
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) NIST 800
3 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.00%) PingFederate
1 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) QRadar
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Splunk
2 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.00%) CyberArk
4 2 (8.00%) Okta
4 2 (8.00%) Ping Identity
4 2 (8.00%) Planview
4 2 (8.00%) Rapid7
5 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.00%) Google
5 1 (4.00%) LogRhythm
5 1 (4.00%) MobileIron
5 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.00%) Tenable
5 1 (4.00%) VMware