SIEM Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 64 65
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing SIEM 6 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.52% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.32% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £406 - £572
25th Percentile £438 - £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 - £596
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.23%
75th Percentile £477 - £620
90th Percentile £563 - £630
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 895 624 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.16% 85.71% 78.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 421 437
10th Percentile £225 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £333 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -7.87% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £565
90th Percentile £650 £600 £622
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 53 58
10th Percentile £13.46 £13.97 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.35 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.31 £19.00 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% +12.99% -43.95%
75th Percentile £26.95 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £47.50 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SIEM

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the East Midlands

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 July 2026. 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
Northamptonshire +10 6 £442 - 1
SIEM
England

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
1 3 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) NGFW
2 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (50.00%) OpenID
1 3 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Cyberattack
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Network Segmentation
1 4 (66.67%) Security Architecture
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 4 (66.67%) SOAR
1 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (50.00%) Data Security
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) OWASP
2 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) SABSA
2 3 (50.00%) SDLC
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (50.00%) Use Case
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE Security
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) GRC
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (50.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Tenable