SIEM Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SIEM 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.24% - 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% - 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £536 - -
25th Percentile £581 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £661 - £475
75th Percentile £741 - £488
90th Percentile £785 - -
South London median daily rate £661 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -26.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 142 100 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 88.20% 92.59% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 77 102
10th Percentile £456 £380 £231
25th Percentile £497 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.91%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £632 £624 £660
South London median daily rate £510 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £16.64
25th Percentile - - £17.06
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £53.80 £23.50
% change year-on-year +13.79% +128.94% -46.42%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in Croydon

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing SIEM

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Croydon over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in Croydon

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform