SIEM Contracts in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring SIEM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SIEM over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 100 116
Rank change year-on-year +44 +16 +9
Contract jobs citing SIEM 26 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.69% 0.32% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 0.37% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 3
10th Percentile - £506 £405
25th Percentile £525 £588 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +41.18% -37.04%
75th Percentile £606 £800 £663
90th Percentile £626 £860 £805
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.34 - -
Median hourly rate £80.68 - -
75th Percentile £81.01 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.68 £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +101.69% -46.67% +13.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 872 1,619 1,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 90.18% 85.21% 87.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 680 1,007
10th Percentile £225 £202 £205
25th Percentile £400 £330 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 611 335
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year - +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £72.50 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.67% +50.00%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for SIEM in the East of England

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIEM in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Hertfordshire +45 24 £550 -8.33% 25
Cambridgeshire +11 2 £745 -0.67% 9
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England

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 13 (50.00%) Cohesity
2 3 (11.54%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (80.77%) DNS
2 14 (53.85%) SAN
3 7 (26.92%) FTP
3 7 (26.92%) HTTP
3 7 (26.92%) Network Security
3 7 (26.92%) SMTP
3 7 (26.92%) SSL
4 2 (7.69%) Firewall
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Analyst
1 9 (34.62%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (7.69%) Junior
2 2 (7.69%) Junior Analyst
2 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (3.85%) Security Analyst
3 1 (3.85%) Security Specialist
3 1 (3.85%) SOC Specialist
3 1 (3.85%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (30.77%) Security Operations Centre
3 7 (26.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (26.92%) Cyberattack
3 7 (26.92%) Management Information System
4 6 (23.08%) CSOC
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Windows
1 14 (53.85%) Windows Server
1 14 (53.85%) Windows Server 2016
1 14 (53.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Build Automation
1 13 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 13 (50.00%) Operations Management
2 11 (42.31%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (38.46%) Security Operations
4 9 (34.62%) Incident Response
4 9 (34.62%) Threat Detection
5 7 (26.92%) Analytics
5 7 (26.92%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (26.92%) Behavioural Analytics
5 7 (26.92%) Information Management
5 7 (26.92%) Information Security
5 7 (26.92%) Machine Learning
5 7 (26.92%) Network Packet Capture
6 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 2 (7.69%) Data Enrichment
6 2 (7.69%) Migration
6 2 (7.69%) Threat Analysis
6 2 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (80.77%) Security Cleared
2 19 (73.08%) DV Cleared
3 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) CISSP
4 2 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (7.69%) GCIA
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) Active Directory
1 14 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (50.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 13 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (53.85%) Ansible
1 14 (53.85%) SCCM
1 14 (53.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) Splunk
2 15 (57.69%) Microsoft
3 14 (53.85%) NetApp
3 14 (53.85%) VMware
4 2 (7.69%) Google
4 2 (7.69%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.85%) Tenable