SIEM Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

SIEM Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

As of 17 September 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median SIEM Engineer daily rate in Cardiff.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.30% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South Wales median daily rate - £600 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cardiff. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cardiff with a recognized job title 291 197 207
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.72% 97.52% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 147 152
10th Percentile £300 £213 £130
25th Percentile £331 £300 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £388 £441
Median % change year-on-year +17.42% -12.18% +3.82%
75th Percentile £588 £498 £550
90th Percentile £713 £675 £618
South Wales median daily rate £468 £375 £413
% change year-on-year +24.67% -9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 11
10th Percentile £12.21 £12.21 -
25th Percentile £12.71 - £15.48
Median hourly rate £19.50 £13.08 £21.59
Median % change year-on-year +49.08% -39.42% -4.04%
75th Percentile £19.75 £17.23 £25.60
90th Percentile £21.10 £21.27 -
South Wales median hourly rate £19.50 £20.25 £25.60
% change year-on-year -3.70% -20.90% +7.05%

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 17 September 2026, SIEM Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cardiff region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk