SIEM Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SIEM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SIEM over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 301 387
Rank change year-on-year -6 +86 -85
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 315 407 677
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.89% 1.08% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.12% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 274 329 535
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £37,850
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £69,200
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -6.07% +15.33%
75th Percentile £72,481 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,816 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,618 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.80% -3.66% +5.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

SIEM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,654 36,235 73,335
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.73% 96.01% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23,643 25,788 42,106
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

SIEM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SIEM trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SIEM.

SIEM salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SIEM
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SIEM over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

SIEM salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.86%) IIS
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 143 (45.40%) Azure
2 75 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (19.05%) AWS
4 26 (8.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 24 (7.62%) GCP
6 18 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
7 14 (4.44%) Entra ID
7 14 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 13 (4.13%) SaaS
9 11 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.22%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.90%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.59%) IaaS
12 5 (1.59%) PaaS
13 4 (1.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 3 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.95%) AWS Control Tower
14 3 (0.95%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (0.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 130 (41.27%) Firewall
2 60 (19.05%) Intrusion Detection
3 54 (17.14%) Network Security
4 38 (12.06%) TCP/IP
5 36 (11.43%) WAN
6 34 (10.79%) Internet
7 33 (10.48%) LAN
8 31 (9.84%) DNS
9 21 (6.67%) DKIM
9 21 (6.67%) DMARC
10 17 (5.40%) Wireshark
11 15 (4.76%) SD-WAN
12 12 (3.81%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.90%) DHCP
14 3 (0.95%) Broadband
14 3 (0.95%) SAN
14 3 (0.95%) VLAN
14 3 (0.95%) VPN
14 3 (0.95%) Wireless
15 2 (0.63%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.54%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.59%) BigQuery
2 5 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.59%) Hadoop
2 5 (1.59%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.95%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (2.86%) JIRA
2 7 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.95%) CircleCI
General
1 71 (22.54%) Finance
2 57 (18.10%) Social Skills
3 44 (13.97%) Law
4 32 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.76%) Legal
8 12 (3.81%) Banking
9 10 (3.17%) Retail
10 9 (2.86%) Aerospace
11 7 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.95%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.95%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.63%) Publishing
15 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (36.51%) Analyst
2 78 (24.76%) Security Analyst
3 61 (19.37%) Security Engineer
4 44 (13.97%) Lead
5 41 (13.02%) Senior
6 38 (12.06%) Information Analyst
6 38 (12.06%) Information Security Analyst
7 35 (11.11%) SOC Analyst
8 32 (10.16%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 24 (7.62%) Team Leader
10 22 (6.98%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 14 (4.44%) Senior Security Engineer
12 12 (3.81%) Operations Engineer
13 11 (3.49%) Security Manager
13 11 (3.49%) SIEM Engineer
14 9 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 9 (2.86%) Data Engineer
14 9 (2.86%) Information Security Engineer
14 9 (2.86%) Product Owner
14 9 (2.86%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.27%) Kafka
1 4 (1.27%) OAuth
2 3 (0.95%) Fluent Bit
2 3 (0.95%) OpenID
2 3 (0.95%) SAML
3 2 (0.63%) LDAP
4 1 (0.32%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 55 (17.46%) Management Information System
2 40 (12.70%) Security Operations Centre
3 36 (11.43%) Cyberattack
4 28 (8.89%) Cyber Threat
5 22 (6.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 17 (5.40%) Security Posture
7 13 (4.13%) IoT
8 10 (3.17%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.86%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.86%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (2.54%) Client/Server
10 8 (2.54%) Cloud Native
10 8 (2.54%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (2.54%) iPad
10 8 (2.54%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.59%) Blog
12 5 (1.59%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 60 (19.05%) Windows
2 34 (10.79%) Linux
3 17 (5.40%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.49%) Android
4 11 (3.49%) Apple iOS
4 11 (3.49%) Unix
5 9 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.54%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.90%) CentOS
8 4 (1.27%) Solaris
8 4 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.27%) zOS
9 3 (0.95%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (64.76%) Cybersecurity
2 120 (38.10%) Security Operations
3 103 (32.70%) Information Security
4 98 (31.11%) Incident Response
5 67 (21.27%) Vulnerability Management
6 65 (20.63%) Cloud Security
7 61 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (14.92%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 37 (11.75%) ITIL
10 33 (10.48%) SOAR
11 32 (10.16%) Kalman Filter
11 32 (10.16%) Threat Intelligence
12 30 (9.52%) Mentoring
12 30 (9.52%) Security Management
13 29 (9.21%) Identity Access Management
13 29 (9.21%) Security Monitoring
13 29 (9.21%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 29 (9.21%) Zero Trust
14 28 (8.89%) Cryptography
14 28 (8.89%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 34 (10.79%) Python
2 31 (9.84%) PowerShell
3 14 (4.44%) SQL
4 7 (2.22%) Bash
4 7 (2.22%) Java
5 2 (0.63%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 56 (17.78%) CISSP
2 39 (12.38%) Degree
3 27 (8.57%) Security Cleared
4 22 (6.98%) CISM
4 22 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (6.03%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (5.71%) SSCP
7 16 (5.08%) CEH
8 15 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 15 (4.76%) CCSP
8 15 (4.76%) DV Cleared
8 15 (4.76%) SC Cleared
9 14 (4.44%) CompTIA Security+
10 13 (4.13%) CISA
10 13 (4.13%) SANS
11 9 (2.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 8 (2.54%) DBS Check
13 6 (1.90%) GIAC
14 5 (1.59%) GCIA
15 4 (1.27%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (32.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 74 (23.49%) NIST
3 44 (13.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 34 (10.79%) PCI DSS
5 25 (7.94%) NCSC
6 19 (6.03%) GDPR
7 17 (5.40%) SOC 2
8 15 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 15 (4.76%) GRC
9 5 (1.59%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.95%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.95%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.95%) QA
11 3 (0.95%) SLA
12 2 (0.63%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.32%) GxP
13 1 (0.32%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 36 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 22 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (2.86%) Forefront TMG
4 9 (2.86%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.86%) VMware Workstation
5 7 (2.22%) vSphere
6 6 (1.90%) Docker
6 6 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.32%) Snort
7 1 (0.32%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (8.89%) CASB
2 18 (5.71%) QRadar
3 16 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (3.81%) Terraform
5 11 (3.49%) Nmap
5 11 (3.49%) WSUS
6 9 (2.86%) Kubernetes
6 9 (2.86%) SCOM
7 8 (2.54%) logstash
7 8 (2.54%) Nessus
8 7 (2.22%) CSIRT
9 6 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.95%) Fluentd
11 3 (0.95%) ZENworks
12 2 (0.63%) Ansible
12 2 (0.63%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.32%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.32%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (0.32%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 68 (21.59%) Microsoft
2 62 (19.68%) Splunk
3 27 (8.57%) ServiceNow
4 25 (7.94%) Qualys
5 22 (6.98%) VMware
6 18 (5.71%) IBM
7 14 (4.44%) Cisco
8 13 (4.13%) Rapid7
9 11 (3.49%) Fortinet
9 11 (3.49%) Thycotic
10 10 (3.17%) Meraki
11 8 (2.54%) Google
12 7 (2.22%) Veeam
13 5 (1.59%) LogRhythm
14 4 (1.27%) Darktrace
14 4 (1.27%) Intel
15 3 (0.95%) Aruba
15 3 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
15 3 (0.95%) McAfee
15 3 (0.95%) Sun