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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 113 165
Rank change year-on-year +7 +52 +7
Contract jobs citing SIEM 21 37 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.99% 1.33% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.48% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 26 29
10th Percentile £425 £438 £480
25th Percentile £513 £475 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £660
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -16.67% +21.38%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £850
90th Percentile £637 £763 -
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +19.54%

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 1,941 2,497 4,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.43% 89.92% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,754 2,734
10th Percentile £375 £363 £363
25th Percentile £470 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 51
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.00 £21.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.67% -35.15% +49.63%
75th Percentile £112.00 £52.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £137.50 £71.25 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £43.24
% change year-on-year +6.87% -24.26% +26.25%

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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 14 November 2024.

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Azure
1 3 (14.29%) SaaS
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) Firewall
2 4 (19.05%) Network Security
3 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
3 2 (9.52%) WAN
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (4.76%) IPsec
4 1 (4.76%) VPN
General
1 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Analyst
1 5 (23.81%) Security Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Consultant
3 3 (14.29%) Information Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Information Security Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Security Consultant
3 3 (14.29%) Security Manager
3 3 (14.29%) SIEM Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Monitoring Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Operational Security Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Operations Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Security Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Security Monitoring Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Security Operations Manager
4 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (9.52%) SIEM Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Ajax
1 2 (9.52%) HTML
1 2 (9.52%) SOAP
1 2 (9.52%) Web Services
1 2 (9.52%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) JWT
2 1 (4.76%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) OpenID
2 1 (4.76%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 4 (19.05%) CSOC
2 4 (19.05%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
2 4 (19.05%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (9.52%) CMDB
4 2 (9.52%) e-Learning
4 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
5 1 (4.76%) PKI
5 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Incident Response
2 12 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (57.14%) Security Operations
3 6 (28.57%) Information Security
4 5 (23.81%) Threat Intelligence
4 5 (23.81%) Use Case
5 4 (19.05%) Analytics
5 4 (19.05%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (19.05%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (19.05%) Security Monitoring
5 4 (19.05%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 3 (14.29%) Agile
6 3 (14.29%) Data Enrichment
6 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 3 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) SOAR
6 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.76%) Java
2 1 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) CISM
1 5 (23.81%) CISSP
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.52%) GCIA
3 2 (9.52%) GCIH
3 2 (9.52%) GIAC
4 1 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) CCIE
4 1 (4.76%) CCNP
4 1 (4.76%) CCSP
4 1 (4.76%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (14.29%) QA
3 2 (9.52%) GDPR
3 2 (9.52%) NIST
4 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (4.76%) NIST 800
4 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) CSIRT
2 2 (9.52%) Nessus
2 2 (9.52%) QRadar
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Grafana
3 1 (4.76%) OpenVAS
3 1 (4.76%) PingFederate
3 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Splunk
2 3 (14.29%) Cisco
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.52%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) AlienVault
4 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.76%) MobileIron
4 1 (4.76%) New Relic
4 1 (4.76%) Okta
4 1 (4.76%) Ping Identity