SIEM Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

SIEM Engineer
UK > England

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 501 501
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +226
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 49 12 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.041% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.044% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 11 53
10th Percentile £409 - £650
25th Percentile £430 £550 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% +23.08%
75th Percentile £675 £636 £825
90th Percentile £750 £650 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% +36.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 28,356 27,251 35,230
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.91% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,121 16,963 24,204
10th Percentile £290 £300 £292
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,744 892 1,356
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.64 £15.29
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £19.87
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.35 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% -21.35% +48.33%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SIEM Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

SIEM Engineer job vacancy trend in England

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SIEM Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SIEM Engineer job vacancies in England

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM Engineer in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM Engineer in England

SIEM Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
South East +22 22 £430 -29.80% 2
London +10 15 £680 +23.64% 2
West Midlands -30 8 £575 +1.41% 5
Midlands -32 8 £575 +1.41% 5
South West -6 4 £550 -14.56%
North West -20 1 £500 -4.76% 2
North of England -37 1 £500 -4.76% 2
East of England - 1 £550 -
SIEM Engineer
UK

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, SIEM Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) SIEM
2 31 (63.27%) Cybersecurity
3 30 (61.22%) Python
4 27 (55.10%) PowerShell
4 27 (55.10%) Threat Detection
5 25 (51.02%) SC Cleared
5 25 (51.02%) Security Cleared
6 23 (46.94%) Incident Response
7 22 (44.90%) Kusto Query Language
8 19 (38.78%) CISSP
9 17 (34.69%) Kibana
10 16 (32.65%) Microsoft
11 15 (30.61%) CEH
11 15 (30.61%) GIAC
12 13 (26.53%) Analytical Thinking
12 13 (26.53%) Network Security
13 12 (24.49%) Azure
13 12 (24.49%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 12 (24.49%) SOAR
14 11 (22.45%) Data Analysis
14 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (22.45%) Tanium
15 10 (20.41%) FireEye
16 9 (18.37%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (18.37%) Firewall
16 9 (18.37%) Use Case
17 8 (16.33%) Linux
17 8 (16.33%) NIST
17 8 (16.33%) Security Monitoring
17 8 (16.33%) Security Operations

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.04%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.49%) Azure
2 9 (18.37%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (10.20%) AWS
4 3 (6.12%) GCP
5 1 (2.04%) GitHub
5 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (26.53%) Network Security
2 9 (18.37%) Firewall
3 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) GitLab
1 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 18 (36.73%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Finance
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (6.12%) YAML
3 1 (2.04%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.49%) Cyber Security Posture
2 8 (16.33%) Onboarding
3 6 (12.24%) Operational Technology
4 4 (8.16%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (8.16%) Management Information System
5 3 (6.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 3 (6.12%) Security Posture
5 3 (6.12%) STIX
5 3 (6.12%) YARA
6 2 (4.08%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.04%) MISP
7 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Linux
1 8 (16.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) SIEM
2 31 (63.27%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (55.10%) Threat Detection
4 23 (46.94%) Incident Response
5 13 (26.53%) Analytical Thinking
6 12 (24.49%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 12 (24.49%) SOAR
7 11 (22.45%) Data Analysis
7 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (18.37%) Use Case
9 8 (16.33%) Security Monitoring
9 8 (16.33%) Security Operations
10 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (12.24%) Threat Intelligence
12 5 (10.20%) Visualisation
13 4 (8.16%) Data Visualisation
13 4 (8.16%) Performance Tuning
13 4 (8.16%) Security Architecture
14 3 (6.12%) Analytics
14 3 (6.12%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 30 (61.22%) Python
2 27 (55.10%) PowerShell
3 22 (44.90%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (6.12%) Bash
5 1 (2.04%) Go
5 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.04%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 25 (51.02%) SC Cleared
1 25 (51.02%) Security Cleared
2 19 (38.78%) CISSP
3 15 (30.61%) CEH
3 15 (30.61%) GIAC
4 4 (8.16%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (6.12%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.12%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (6.12%) GCFA
5 3 (6.12%) GCIA
5 3 (6.12%) GCIH
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) Degree
6 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) NIST
2 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.04%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) GPG13
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (34.69%) Kibana
2 6 (12.24%) logstash
2 6 (12.24%) QRadar
3 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.04%) Ansible
4 1 (2.04%) Fluentd
4 1 (2.04%) Grafana
4 1 (2.04%) Rsyslog
4 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.45%) Tanium
3 10 (20.41%) FireEye
4 8 (16.33%) Splunk
5 4 (8.16%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.04%) Google
6 1 (2.04%) IBM
6 1 (2.04%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.04%) Qualys
6 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow