SIEM Contract Job Trends in England

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 175 191
Rank change year-on-year -21 +16 -33
Contract jobs citing SIEM 682 461 421
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.66% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.82% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 300 280
10th Percentile £413 £400 £443
25th Percentile £477 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £725
90th Percentile £750 £775 £831
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 11 3
10th Percentile £46.25 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.38 £56.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +13.04% -25.81%
75th Percentile £92.11 £85.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £98.29 £100.00 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £73.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +12.31% +13.04% -23.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,443 25,283 28,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.86% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,053 16,051 17,283
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,529 1,252
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.09
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SIEM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

SIEM job vacancy trend in England

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SIEM

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in England over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in England

SIEM
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SIEM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SIEM

SIEM
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SIEM in England over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SIEM in England

SIEM
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 24 September 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
London -45 252 £568 -1.30% 312
South East +10 175 £575 +15.00% 164
South West +20 89 £600 - 80
North of England -21 89 £540 +3.85% 129
North West -20 63 £528 +13.14% 70
East of England -38 33 £550 - 54
Yorkshire -21 26 £550 +2.33% 45
Midlands -69 26 £500 -2.91% 56
West Midlands -64 24 £500 -3.66% 43
East Midlands -22 1 £475 +2.70% 13
SIEM
UK

SIEM
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 8 (1.17%) Confluence
1 8 (1.17%) IIS
2 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.15%) Apache
4 1 (0.15%) Mendix
4 1 (0.15%) nginx
4 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
1 6 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 252 (36.95%) Azure
2 201 (29.47%) AWS
3 100 (14.66%) GCP
4 99 (14.52%) Entra ID
5 74 (10.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 55 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (5.13%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (3.96%) SaaS
9 25 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
10 22 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (2.64%) Datadog
13 17 (2.49%) AWS CloudTrail
13 17 (2.49%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (2.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 15 (2.20%) Serverless
16 14 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (1.91%) GitHub
17 13 (1.91%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 113 (16.57%) Firewall
2 105 (15.40%) Network Security
3 52 (7.62%) DNS
4 43 (6.30%) TCP/IP
5 29 (4.25%) DHCP
6 27 (3.96%) WAN
7 25 (3.67%) HTTP
7 25 (3.67%) VPN
8 21 (3.08%) SSL
9 20 (2.93%) Intrusion Detection
10 19 (2.79%) VSAN
11 13 (1.91%) BGP
11 13 (1.91%) SD-WAN
12 12 (1.76%) Internet
13 10 (1.47%) VLAN
14 8 (1.17%) OSPF
14 8 (1.17%) SMTP
14 8 (1.17%) SNMP
15 7 (1.03%) LAN
15 7 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.08%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (0.73%) Hazelcast
4 4 (0.59%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.44%) Power BI
6 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.15%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (2.35%) JIRA
2 14 (2.05%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.76%) Git
4 11 (1.61%) GitLab
5 5 (0.73%) Selenium
6 3 (0.44%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.29%) MSI
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 239 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 96 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (12.46%) Finance
4 77 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 48 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (4.55%) Banking
7 20 (2.93%) Military
8 12 (1.76%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.61%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.47%) Law
10 10 (1.47%) Retail
11 8 (1.17%) Legal
11 8 (1.17%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.03%) Back Office
12 7 (1.03%) Local Government
13 6 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.44%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 130 (19.06%) Analyst
2 111 (16.28%) Security Engineer
3 84 (12.32%) Architect
4 73 (10.70%) Security Analyst
5 64 (9.38%) SOC Analyst
6 59 (8.65%) Senior
7 56 (8.21%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 45 (6.60%) Consultant
9 37 (5.43%) Lead
10 34 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 30 (4.40%) Security Architect
12 29 (4.25%) SOC Engineer
13 26 (3.81%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 26 (3.81%) SIEM Engineer
14 25 (3.67%) Network Engineer
14 25 (3.67%) Security Specialist
15 24 (3.52%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 24 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
16 22 (3.23%) Operations Analyst
17 20 (2.93%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (14.81%) Terraform
2 64 (9.38%) LDAP
3 18 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (2.20%) SailPoint
5 14 (2.05%) REST
6 11 (1.61%) JSON
6 11 (1.61%) Kafka
7 10 (1.47%) ARM Templates
8 8 (1.17%) Azure Blueprints
9 7 (1.03%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.88%) FIDO
10 6 (0.88%) SAML
10 6 (0.88%) WebAuthn
11 5 (0.73%) 802.1X
11 5 (0.73%) eBPF
11 5 (0.73%) OAuth
11 5 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.59%) CSS
13 3 (0.44%) PyTorch
13 3 (0.44%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 106 (15.54%) Onboarding
2 89 (13.05%) Security Posture
3 77 (11.29%) Cyber Threat
4 68 (9.97%) Security Operations Centre
5 66 (9.68%) Cloud Native
6 45 (6.60%) Cyber Defence
6 45 (6.60%) Management Information System
7 43 (6.30%) Operational Technology
8 29 (4.25%) Data Centre
9 27 (3.96%) PKI
10 25 (3.67%) Cloud Security Posture
11 17 (2.49%) CMDB
12 16 (2.35%) CSOC
13 15 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 14 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (1.76%) SCADA
17 10 (1.47%) Replication
17 10 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (1.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 154 (22.58%) Windows
2 145 (21.26%) Linux
3 42 (6.16%) Unix
4 30 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (4.11%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.03%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.59%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (54.25%) Cybersecurity
2 240 (35.19%) Incident Response
3 207 (30.35%) Security Operations
4 155 (22.73%) Cloud Security
5 151 (22.14%) Security Monitoring
6 147 (21.55%) Threat Detection
7 127 (18.62%) Vulnerability Management
8 120 (17.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 118 (17.30%) Stakeholder Management
10 112 (16.42%) CI/CD
10 112 (16.42%) SOAR
11 111 (16.28%) Threat Intelligence
12 109 (15.98%) Security Architecture
13 100 (14.66%) ITSM
14 96 (14.08%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 96 (14.08%) DevOps
15 93 (13.64%) DevSecOps
16 87 (12.76%) Infrastructure as Code
17 84 (12.32%) Zero Trust
18 83 (12.17%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 154 (22.58%) Python
2 147 (21.55%) PowerShell
3 87 (12.76%) Bash
4 48 (7.04%) Kusto Query Language
5 24 (3.52%) SQL
6 21 (3.08%) Bicep
6 21 (3.08%) Java
7 20 (2.93%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (1.03%) Perl
9 3 (0.44%) Go
9 3 (0.44%) Groovy
9 3 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.29%) C
10 2 (0.29%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.15%) C#
11 1 (0.15%) Korn
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 323 (47.36%) Security Cleared
2 194 (28.45%) SC Cleared
3 144 (21.11%) CISSP
4 131 (19.21%) DV Cleared
5 81 (11.88%) CISM
6 62 (9.09%) Degree
7 53 (7.77%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (5.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 38 (5.57%) AWS Certification
10 35 (5.13%) GIAC
11 29 (4.25%) Azure Certification
12 26 (3.81%) CompTIA Security+
13 23 (3.37%) CCSP
13 23 (3.37%) GCIH
14 22 (3.23%) CEH
15 20 (2.93%) SANS
16 18 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (2.49%) GSEC
17 17 (2.49%) OSCP
18 16 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (26.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 177 (25.95%) NIST
3 60 (8.80%) GDPR
4 50 (7.33%) NCSC
5 36 (5.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (3.67%) PCI DSS
7 19 (2.79%) GRC
8 16 (2.35%) NIST 800
9 12 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (1.76%) SLA
10 11 (1.61%) PMO
11 10 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (1.47%) HIPAA
12 9 (1.32%) ISO 31000
13 8 (1.17%) QA
14 5 (0.73%) COBIT
14 5 (0.73%) Data Quality
14 5 (0.73%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 162 (23.75%) Active Directory
2 39 (5.72%) Docker
3 38 (5.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.93%) Hyper-V
5 18 (2.64%) VMware NSX
6 17 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.49%) vSphere
7 8 (1.17%) NFS
8 5 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.59%) Squid
10 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.15%) Samba
11 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 70 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 56 (8.21%) Ansible
3 31 (4.55%) QRadar
4 22 (3.23%) Progress Chef
5 15 (2.20%) Grafana
6 14 (2.05%) VxRail
7 12 (1.76%) CASB
8 11 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.17%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.88%) Check_MK
10 6 (0.88%) Puppet
11 5 (0.73%) Istio
11 5 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.73%) linkerd
12 4 (0.59%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.59%) Packer
12 4 (0.59%) Podman
13 3 (0.44%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.44%) Nessus
Vendors
1 188 (27.57%) Microsoft
2 117 (17.16%) Splunk
3 100 (14.66%) CyberArk
4 42 (6.16%) CrowdStrike
4 42 (6.16%) VMware
5 41 (6.01%) ServiceNow
6 33 (4.84%) Google
7 29 (4.25%) BeyondTrust
8 26 (3.81%) Zscaler
9 22 (3.23%) Palo Alto
9 22 (3.23%) Red Hat
10 21 (3.08%) Cisco
10 21 (3.08%) Oracle
11 15 (2.20%) Tenable
12 14 (2.05%) Cribl.io
12 14 (2.05%) Qualys
13 13 (1.91%) ArcSight
13 13 (1.91%) Fortinet
14 12 (1.76%) Rapid7
15 11 (1.61%) LogRhythm