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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 108 123
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 +49
Contract jobs citing SIEM 23 22 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.27% 1.03% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.13% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 28
10th Percentile £450 £424 £459
25th Percentile £478 £438 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £615
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% -9.84% -11.83%
75th Percentile £617 £619 £703
90th Percentile £744 £778 £815
Central London median daily rate £525 £552 £615
% change year-on-year -4.89% -10.20% -5.38%

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 1,705 1,952 3,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.26% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,349 2,158
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

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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 5 July 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 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (13.04%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) GitHub
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.70%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.35%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.35%) Datadog
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 4 (17.39%) Network Security
3 3 (13.04%) SMTP
3 3 (13.04%) SSL
3 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.70%) DNS
4 2 (8.70%) FTP
4 2 (8.70%) HTTP
4 2 (8.70%) VPN
5 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (4.35%) VLAN
5 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Big Data
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Law
6 1 (4.35%) Military
6 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Architect
1 6 (26.09%) Security Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Security Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Security Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.70%) SOC Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Services Manager
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Security Technical Architect
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (4.35%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
1 2 (8.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (13.04%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (13.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.70%) CSOC
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) PKI
4 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (43.48%) Security Operations
3 9 (39.13%) Incident Response
4 8 (34.78%) DevOps
4 8 (34.78%) SOAR
5 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (26.09%) Threat Detection
6 6 (26.09%) Threat Modelling
7 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
7 5 (21.74%) Migration
8 3 (13.04%) Agile
8 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
8 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (13.04%) DevSecOps
8 3 (13.04%) OWASP
8 3 (13.04%) Project Management
8 3 (13.04%) Risk Assessment
8 3 (13.04%) Security Architecture
8 3 (13.04%) Security Monitoring
8 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 5 (21.74%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) GIAC
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (4.35%) CASP
3 1 (4.35%) CISSP
3 1 (4.35%) CREST Certified
3 1 (4.35%) GCIA
3 1 (4.35%) GCIH
3 1 (4.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (13.04%) NIST
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) QRadar
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Splunk
2 4 (17.39%) VMware
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.70%) Planview
4 2 (8.70%) Rapid7
5 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco
5 1 (4.35%) Exabeam
5 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.35%) Google
5 1 (4.35%) LogRhythm
5 1 (4.35%) MobileIron
5 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.35%) Qualys
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.35%) Tenable