SIEM Contracts in the South East

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 114 168
Rank change year-on-year +22 +54 -35
Contract jobs citing SIEM 117 102 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.03% 1.80% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.02% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 74 67
10th Percentile £425 £434 £306
25th Percentile £500 £478 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £62.50
75th Percentile £58.75 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.75 £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year -35.00% +13.98% +31.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SIEM in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +24 77 £650 - 10
Thames Valley -23 19 £550 -1.79% 6
West Sussex +22 18 £450 -23.40% 3
Berkshire -17 13 £563 +2.27% 4
Buckinghamshire +1 5 £550 -1.79% 1
Surrey +11 2 £665 +23.72% 2
East Sussex +4 1 £650 -7.14% 2
Oxfordshire +2 1 - - 1
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England

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.26%) Azure
2 4 (3.42%) AWS
2 4 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (3.42%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.85%) IaaS
4 1 (0.85%) PaaS
4 1 (0.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.84%) Firewall
2 5 (4.27%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.71%) LAN
3 2 (1.71%) Network Security
3 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.71%) WAN
4 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
General
1 31 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.13%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.13%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.85%) Finance
4 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (0.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (24.79%) Architect
2 27 (23.08%) Network Architect
3 18 (15.38%) Analyst
4 17 (14.53%) Lead
5 13 (11.11%) Consultant
5 13 (11.11%) Senior
6 11 (9.40%) SOC Analyst
7 10 (8.55%) Security Consultant
8 8 (6.84%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 8 (6.84%) IT Security Specialist
8 8 (6.84%) Security Operations Specialist
8 8 (6.84%) Security Specialist
9 6 (5.13%) ArcSight Consultant
10 5 (4.27%) Network Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Security Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) ArcSight Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) Security Analyst
11 4 (3.42%) Senior Network Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) SOC Engineer
12 3 (2.56%) Head of Information
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.27%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.71%) OAuth
2 2 (1.71%) OpenID
2 2 (1.71%) SAML
3 1 (0.85%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 36 (30.77%) Management Information System
2 27 (23.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 27 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
3 23 (19.66%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (4.27%) PKI
5 4 (3.42%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.85%) CSOC
7 1 (0.85%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.53%) Windows
2 16 (13.68%) Linux
3 13 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (5.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (39.32%) Cybersecurity
1 46 (39.32%) Incident Response
2 32 (27.35%) Network Management
3 30 (25.64%) Security Operations
4 29 (24.79%) Information Security
4 29 (24.79%) Vulnerability Management
5 23 (19.66%) Protective Monitoring
5 23 (19.66%) Use Case
6 22 (18.80%) Incident Management
6 22 (18.80%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 20 (17.09%) Mentoring
8 19 (16.24%) SOAR
9 18 (15.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 18 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
9 18 (15.38%) Data Security
9 18 (15.38%) Threat Intelligence
10 17 (14.53%) Case Management
10 17 (14.53%) CRM
10 17 (14.53%) Root Cause Analysis
11 16 (13.68%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.97%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.42%) Python
2 4 (3.42%) VBScript
3 2 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 80 (68.38%) Security Cleared
2 56 (47.86%) DV Cleared
3 10 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.71%) CISSP
5 1 (0.85%) CCNA
5 1 (0.85%) CCSP
5 1 (0.85%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.85%) CISM
5 1 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) Degree
5 1 (0.85%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.51%) NIST
2 22 (18.80%) NIST 800
3 4 (3.42%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.71%) COBIT
4 2 (1.71%) GDPR
4 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (6.84%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.71%) XenApp
4 1 (0.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (4.27%) Kibana
1 5 (4.27%) logstash
2 3 (2.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (2.56%) Nessus
3 2 (1.71%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 2 (1.71%) QRadar
4 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 46 (39.32%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.38%) LogRhythm
3 16 (13.68%) Forcepoint
3 16 (13.68%) Qualys
3 16 (13.68%) Varonis
4 13 (11.11%) ArcSight
5 6 (5.13%) Splunk
5 6 (5.13%) VMware
6 5 (4.27%) Tanium
7 4 (3.42%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.56%) Cisco
9 2 (1.71%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.71%) Citrix
9 2 (1.71%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.85%) Netskope
10 1 (0.85%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.85%) TippingPoint
10 1 (0.85%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.85%) Zscaler