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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing SIEM 9 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.98% - 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £369 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile £471 - -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +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 787 488 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.36% 86.83% 83.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 295 425
10th Percentile £190 £229 £213
25th Percentile £350 £323 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £525 £541 £565
90th Percentile £625 £632 £674
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 23 43
10th Percentile £15.44 £15.48 £11.86
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.89 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.49% +12.50% +18.84%
75th Percentile £24.49 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +21.43%

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
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 January 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 - 6 £400 - 2
Nottinghamshire - 2 £463 - 2
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 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 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Security Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Migration Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
2 1 (11.11%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Operational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Incident Response
2 5 (55.56%) SOAR
3 4 (44.44%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (44.44%) Threat Detection
3 4 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (33.33%) Security Operations
5 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
5 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
5 2 (22.22%) Validation
5 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (22.22%) Zero Trust
6 1 (11.11%) Interactive Application Security Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Key Management
6 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (11.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 1 (11.11%) Secrets Management
6 1 (11.11%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bicep
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) CCNP
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) GRC
3 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (11.11%) NIST
3 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 1 (11.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Tenable
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 1 (11.11%) Sophos
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Zscaler