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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing SIEM 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.67% - 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% - 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £400 - £572
25th Percentile £428 - £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 - £596
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.22%
75th Percentile £468 - £620
90th Percentile £556 - £630
England median daily rate £558 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -3.04% -4.17% -

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 840 441 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 80.85% 86.30% 78.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 295 414
10th Percentile £199 £200 £188
25th Percentile £364 £320 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £433 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% +1.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £588 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 21 63
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.63 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £21.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +23.37% -1.24%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £30.25 £33.75 £51.34
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 - 7 £442 - 3
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 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
1 3 (42.86%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) OAuth
1 3 (42.86%) OAuth2
1 3 (42.86%) OpenID
1 3 (42.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Cyberattack
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) SOAR
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
2 4 (57.14%) Validation
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Data Flow Diagram
3 3 (42.86%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (42.86%) Data Security
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Network Segmentation
3 3 (42.86%) OWASP
3 3 (42.86%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Remediation Plan
3 3 (42.86%) SABSA
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
3 3 (42.86%) Security Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
3 3 (42.86%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
1 3 (42.86%) GRC
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
1 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
1 3 (42.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Splunk
3 2 (28.57%) Tenable
4 1 (14.29%) Sophos