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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing SIEM 5 0 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.63% - 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% - 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile - - £438
25th Percentile £456 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £560
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.16%
75th Percentile £469 - £620
90th Percentile - - £644
England median daily rate £550 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +2.50%

All Process and 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 675 658 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.55% 82.87% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 410 533
10th Percentile £223 £263 £213
25th Percentile £341 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -8.16% +5.38%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 34 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM 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
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 18 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
Northamptonshire - 2 - - 3
Nottinghamshire - 2 £463 - 3
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 2
SIEM
England

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Operations Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Security Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Security Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler