SIEM Engineer Contracts in England

SIEM Engineer
UK > England

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 502 594
Rank change year-on-year +5 +92 +174
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 19 41 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.069% 0.12% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.13% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 31 24
10th Percentile £468 £513 -
25th Percentile £514 £550 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £635 £545
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +16.51% +74.40%
75th Percentile £720 £825 £650
90th Percentile £780 - £675
UK median daily rate £588 £635 £545
% change year-on-year -7.48% +16.51% +74.40%

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 25,339 31,938 43,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 92.96% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,468 21,084 30,793
10th Percentile £288 £300 £308
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,282 2,007 1,363
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.86 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.79 £19.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.30 £43.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.84% -1.71% +70.37%
75th Percentile £55.43 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £43.00
% change year-on-year -40.16% -2.26% +67.45%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SIEM Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in England

SIEM Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for SIEM Engineer in England

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 July 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 27 July 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
London 0 8 £705 -6.00% 3
South East +30 5 £523 -16.32% 1
Midlands -16 3 £485 -11.82%
West Midlands -16 3 £485 -11.82%
South West +37 2 £550 -18.52%
SIEM Engineer
UK

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 July 2025, SIEM Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) SIEM
2 11 (57.89%) Azure
3 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
3 10 (52.63%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (42.11%) Security Operations
4 8 (42.11%) Incident Response
5 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (31.58%) Threat Detection
6 6 (31.58%) SOAR
6 6 (31.58%) Process Improvement
6 6 (31.58%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (31.58%) Python
7 5 (26.32%) GIAC
7 5 (26.32%) Data Quality
7 5 (26.32%) REST
7 5 (26.32%) Splunk
7 5 (26.32%) AWS
7 5 (26.32%) JSON
7 5 (26.32%) CSOC
7 5 (26.32%) Onboarding
7 5 (26.32%) Security Posture
7 5 (26.32%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (26.32%) Data Lake
7 5 (26.32%) Security Monitoring
7 5 (26.32%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (21.05%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (21.05%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
8 4 (21.05%) Analytics

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 11 (57.89%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.53%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) DSL
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
General
1 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Electronics
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.26%) Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Military
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) JSON
1 5 (26.32%) REST
2 3 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (10.53%) Kafka
4 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) CSOC
1 5 (26.32%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (26.32%) Onboarding
1 5 (26.32%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (10.53%) Social Media
2 2 (10.53%) YARA
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) STIX
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) SIEM
2 10 (52.63%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (42.11%) Incident Response
3 8 (42.11%) Security Operations
4 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (31.58%) Process Improvement
5 6 (31.58%) SOAR
5 6 (31.58%) Threat Detection
5 6 (31.58%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (26.32%) Security Monitoring
7 4 (21.05%) Analytics
7 4 (21.05%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
8 3 (15.79%) Security Analytics
8 3 (15.79%) Threat Intelligence
8 3 (15.79%) Use Case
9 2 (10.53%) Anomaly Detection
9 2 (10.53%) Data Ingestion
9 2 (10.53%) Event Correlation
9 2 (10.53%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) GIAC
2 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.26%) CISSP
4 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.26%) GCFA
4 1 (5.26%) GCIA
4 1 (5.26%) GCIH
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.79%) NIST
3 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Kibana
1 1 (5.26%) logstash
1 1 (5.26%) QRadar
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) SAP