SIEM Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 100 104
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +32
Contract jobs citing SIEM 20 22 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.87% 1.25% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.34% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 18
10th Percentile £388 £450 £419
25th Percentile £488 £475 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -1.29% -6.80%
75th Percentile £619 £706 £772
90th Percentile £742 £746 £925
Central London median daily rate £544 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -5.43% +1.77% -9.60%

All Process & 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 1,948 1,639 1,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.07% 93.28% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 1,037 1,395
10th Percentile £363 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 11
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SIEM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SIEM job vacancy trend in the City of London

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SIEM

SIEM
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 4 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the City of London

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 3 (15.00%) OCI
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Network Security
2 3 (15.00%) Firewall
3 2 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (5.00%) BGP
4 1 (5.00%) Broadband
4 1 (5.00%) DNS
4 1 (5.00%) Internet
4 1 (5.00%) IPsec
4 1 (5.00%) OSPF
4 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (5.00%) SSL
4 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Snyk
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Local Government
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Architect
1 4 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.00%) CyberArk Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Junior
3 2 (10.00%) Junior Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SOC Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (15.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
1 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 5 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 5 (25.00%) SOAR
3 5 (25.00%) Zero Trust
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (15.00%) AI
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.00%) Project Management
5 3 (15.00%) RBAC
5 3 (15.00%) Use Case
6 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (10.00%) Runbook
6 2 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.00%) CISSP
3 2 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (10.00%) CCSP
3 2 (10.00%) CESG Certified Professional
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) CCNP
4 1 (5.00%) CISM
4 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) OSCP
4 1 (5.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) NIST
2 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (10.00%) NIST 800
4 1 (5.00%) GDPR
4 1 (5.00%) GRC
4 1 (5.00%) NCSC
4 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.00%) PMO
4 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Icinga
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) logstash
2 1 (5.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (25.00%) Splunk
2 4 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 3 (15.00%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (15.00%) LogRhythm
4 2 (10.00%) McAfee
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (10.00%) Trend Micro
4 2 (10.00%) Zscaler
5 1 (5.00%) BT
5 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco
5 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.00%) Okta
5 1 (5.00%) Qualys
5 1 (5.00%) Rapid7
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow