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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 194 172
Rank change year-on-year +28 -22 +44
Contract jobs citing SIEM 586 348 556
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.35% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.49% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 224 406
10th Percentile £413 £410 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £835 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 6
10th Percentile £26.80 - -
25th Percentile £40.52 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £48.72 £54.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% +36.25% -45.13%
75th Percentile £76.25 £63.25 £56.88
90th Percentile £84.88 - £68.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +19.27% +36.25% -45.13%

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 30,524 23,282 33,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.36% 90.06% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,511 14,543 22,029
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,903 748 2,025
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.28 £21.25 £16.30
Median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% - -
75th Percentile £63.05 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.08 £73.35
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -7.14% -

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +23 248 £615 +6.96% 75
South East +41 146 £492 -12.14% 63
Midlands -33 69 £525 -8.06% 25
West Midlands -42 59 £550 -3.68% 18
South West -9 45 £537 -10.50% 21
North of England -35 42 £530 -11.67% 58
North West -12 27 £558 +6.19% 44
East of England -14 18 £545 -3.11% 24
Yorkshire -58 12 £510 -18.40% 10
East Midlands - 10 £438 - 7
North East -17 3 £400 +14.29% 4
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 9 (1.54%) OpenStack
2 8 (1.37%) Confluence
2 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.17%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.17%) nginx
3 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.37%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 239 (40.78%) Azure
2 200 (34.13%) AWS
3 111 (18.94%) GCP
4 77 (13.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 58 (9.90%) Entra ID
6 47 (8.02%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (4.10%) OpenShift
8 23 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
9 21 (3.58%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (1.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 11 (1.88%) SaaS
13 10 (1.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 10 (1.71%) GitHub
14 9 (1.54%) Azure AKS
14 9 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (1.54%) Serverless
15 8 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 124 (21.16%) Firewall
2 93 (15.87%) Network Security
3 41 (7.00%) DNS
3 41 (7.00%) VPN
4 36 (6.14%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.56%) DHCP
6 14 (2.39%) SSL
7 13 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
8 11 (1.88%) SMTP
9 10 (1.71%) BGP
10 9 (1.54%) OSPF
11 8 (1.37%) Internet
11 8 (1.37%) WAN
12 7 (1.19%) IPsec
12 7 (1.19%) LAN
12 7 (1.19%) MPLS
12 7 (1.19%) Wireshark
13 6 (1.02%) HTTP
13 6 (1.02%) SD-WAN
13 6 (1.02%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (1.88%) Data Lake
3 9 (1.54%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.51%) Power BI
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.17%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.17%) Redis
7 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (2.73%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.56%) JIRA
3 7 (1.19%) GitLab
4 5 (0.85%) Snyk
5 4 (0.68%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.51%) Git
7 2 (0.34%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.34%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.34%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.17%) AppScan
8 1 (0.17%) JUnit
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 206 (35.15%) Social Skills
2 76 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (11.77%) Public Sector
4 62 (10.58%) Finance
5 58 (9.90%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (2.56%) Banking
7 14 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (2.22%) Military
9 11 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.54%) Legal
12 5 (0.85%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.85%) Retail
13 4 (0.68%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.51%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.34%) Back Office
15 2 (0.34%) Local Government
15 2 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.17%) Advertising
16 1 (0.17%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 126 (21.50%) Architect
2 117 (19.97%) Analyst
3 110 (18.77%) Security Engineer
4 64 (10.92%) Senior
5 54 (9.22%) Security Analyst
5 54 (9.22%) SIEM Engineer
6 47 (8.02%) CyberArk Architect
6 47 (8.02%) SOC Analyst
7 44 (7.51%) Security Architect
8 29 (4.95%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 27 (4.61%) Senior Analyst
10 26 (4.44%) Consultant
11 22 (3.75%) Lead
12 20 (3.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 19 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
14 16 (2.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (2.56%) Security Manager
16 13 (2.22%) Cloud Engineer
16 13 (2.22%) Operations Analyst
16 13 (2.22%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.65%) LDAP
2 51 (8.70%) REST
3 35 (5.97%) SOAP
4 31 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (4.44%) SAML
6 22 (3.75%) OpenID
7 9 (1.54%) Kafka
8 8 (1.37%) ARM Templates
8 8 (1.37%) OAuth
9 7 (1.19%) OAuth2
10 6 (1.02%) JSON
10 6 (1.02%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.85%) PyTorch
12 4 (0.68%) 802.1X
12 4 (0.68%) LangChain
12 4 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (0.68%) Regular Expression
12 4 (0.68%) scikit-learn
13 3 (0.51%) Node.js
13 3 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 94 (16.04%) Security Posture
2 73 (12.46%) Security Operations Centre
3 62 (10.58%) Onboarding
4 48 (8.19%) Enterprise Software
5 43 (7.34%) Cloud Native
6 41 (7.00%) Cyber Threat
7 30 (5.12%) Cyber Defence
8 29 (4.95%) Management Information System
8 29 (4.95%) Operational Technology
9 21 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (3.41%) PKI
11 14 (2.39%) CSOC
11 14 (2.39%) Cyberattack
12 13 (2.22%) Cyber Security Posture
13 11 (1.88%) Cloud Security Posture
14 9 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.54%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.54%) Product Ownership
15 8 (1.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 8 (1.37%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 93 (15.87%) Windows
2 91 (15.53%) Linux
3 26 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (3.07%) Unix
5 6 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.68%) CentOS
6 4 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.34%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (48.29%) Cybersecurity
2 204 (34.81%) Incident Response
3 179 (30.55%) Security Operations
4 130 (22.18%) SOAR
5 127 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
6 121 (20.65%) Threat Detection
7 120 (20.48%) Cloud Security
8 97 (16.55%) DevOps
9 96 (16.38%) CI/CD
10 83 (14.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 81 (13.82%) Vulnerability Management
12 71 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
13 67 (11.43%) Security Architecture
14 65 (11.09%) Threat Modelling
14 65 (11.09%) Zero Trust
15 63 (10.75%) DevSecOps
15 63 (10.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 63 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
16 60 (10.24%) Identity Access Management
17 59 (10.07%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 191 (32.59%) Python
2 170 (29.01%) PowerShell
3 55 (9.39%) Kusto Query Language
4 36 (6.14%) Bash
5 21 (3.58%) Bicep
6 10 (1.71%) Java
6 10 (1.71%) SQL
7 9 (1.54%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.68%) Go
9 3 (0.51%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.34%) C++
11 1 (0.17%) C
11 1 (0.17%) Lisp
11 1 (0.17%) R
11 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 277 (47.27%) Security Cleared
2 222 (37.88%) SC Cleared
3 131 (22.35%) CISSP
4 73 (12.46%) CISM
5 60 (10.24%) DV Cleared
6 45 (7.68%) Degree
7 41 (7.00%) GIAC
8 32 (5.46%) CEH
9 29 (4.95%) Azure Certification
9 29 (4.95%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (4.95%) CompTIA Security+
10 20 (3.41%) AWS Certification
11 16 (2.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 16 (2.73%) GCIH
12 15 (2.56%) CompTIA CySA+
12 15 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (2.39%) CCSP
13 14 (2.39%) GCIA
14 13 (2.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 12 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (26.79%) NIST
2 145 (24.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 80 (13.65%) GDPR
4 39 (6.66%) NCSC
5 33 (5.63%) PCI DSS
6 22 (3.75%) HIPAA
7 17 (2.90%) NIST 800
8 14 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (2.39%) GRC
9 11 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (1.71%) SOC 2
11 7 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (1.19%) JSP 440
12 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.68%) QA
14 3 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.51%) COBIT
14 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.51%) PSD2
14 3 (0.51%) RMADS
System Software
1 109 (18.60%) Active Directory
2 28 (4.78%) Docker
3 14 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.05%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.37%) Snort
5 8 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.37%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.68%) Postfix
6 4 (0.68%) Squid
7 2 (0.34%) NFS
7 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.34%) vSphere
8 1 (0.17%) GPFS
8 1 (0.17%) Lustre
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 75 (12.80%) Kubernetes
2 67 (11.43%) Terraform
3 28 (4.78%) Ansible
4 27 (4.61%) Kibana
5 17 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.56%) logstash
8 14 (2.39%) QRadar
9 10 (1.71%) Nessus
10 9 (1.54%) SCCM
11 8 (1.37%) WSUS
12 7 (1.19%) CSIRT
12 7 (1.19%) Grafana
13 3 (0.51%) Argo
13 3 (0.51%) CASB
13 3 (0.51%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.51%) Icinga
13 3 (0.51%) Nexpose
13 3 (0.51%) Suricata
Vendors
1 162 (27.65%) Microsoft
2 133 (22.70%) Splunk
3 89 (15.19%) CyberArk
4 68 (11.60%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.80%) Centrify
6 31 (5.29%) Tenable
7 30 (5.12%) Qualys
8 26 (4.44%) Cisco
8 26 (4.44%) Palo Alto
9 25 (4.27%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (3.75%) VMware
11 19 (3.24%) Google
11 19 (3.24%) LogRhythm
12 17 (2.90%) FireEye
12 17 (2.90%) ServiceNow
13 16 (2.73%) Tanium
13 16 (2.73%) Zscaler
14 13 (2.22%) IBM
15 12 (2.05%) Fortinet
15 12 (2.05%) Red Hat