SIEM Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring SIEM skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 47 21
Rank change year-on-year +14 -26 +72
Contract jobs citing SIEM 8 1 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 2.53% 0.27% 7.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 0.33% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 54
10th Percentile £500 - £470
25th Percentile £506 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £563
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -14.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £555 - £630
90th Percentile £568 - £650
South East median daily rate £500 £594 £581
% change year-on-year -15.79% +2.15% +1.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 287 304 687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 90.82% 82.83% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 214 524
10th Percentile £213 £234 £319
25th Percentile £350 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £514
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -12.41% +0.74%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £605
90th Percentile £635 £626 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 7 11
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.31 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.98 £13.37
Median hourly rate £15.91 £30.00 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +82.93% +21.48%
75th Percentile £25.15 £36.37 £21.75
90th Percentile - £37.25 £23.00
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.85% +9.24% +64.53%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in Buckinghamshire

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SIEM

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
Milton Keynes +13 8 £525 +9.38% 5
SIEM
South East

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (25.00%) CSOC
2 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) Protective Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (12.50%) Ethical Hacking
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Detection
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
1 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) CEH
4 3 (37.50%) CISSP
5 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (12.50%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) QRadar
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) LogRhythm
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk