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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 169 196
Rank change year-on-year -31 +27 -35
Contract jobs citing SIEM 680 457 426
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.64% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.80% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 300 283
10th Percentile £413 £400 £429
25th Percentile £475 £463 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -0.99%
75th Percentile £650 £654 £725
90th Percentile £750 £775 £830
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 39,398 25,390 28,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 16,126 17,350
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 2,849 1,543 1,244
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £47.50 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -40 249 £568 -1.30% 336
South East +4 175 £575 +15.00% 165
North of England -26 90 £540 +3.85% 127
South West +15 89 £600 - 82
North West -11 64 £525 +12.60% 72
East of England -43 33 £550 - 53
Yorkshire -27 26 £550 +2.33% 41
Midlands -69 26 £500 -1.48% 54
West Midlands -66 24 £500 -3.29% 40
East Midlands -19 1 £475 +2.70% 14
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 (1.18%) Confluence
1 8 (1.18%) 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
1 249 (36.62%) Azure
2 198 (29.12%) AWS
3 100 (14.71%) GCP
4 97 (14.26%) Entra ID
5 74 (10.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 55 (8.09%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (5.15%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (3.97%) SaaS
9 25 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (3.38%) Azure Logic Apps
11 22 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (2.65%) Datadog
14 17 (2.50%) AWS CloudTrail
14 17 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (2.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 15 (2.21%) Serverless
17 14 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 13 (1.91%) GitHub
18 13 (1.91%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 114 (16.76%) Firewall
2 106 (15.59%) Network Security
3 52 (7.65%) DNS
4 43 (6.32%) TCP/IP
5 29 (4.26%) DHCP
6 27 (3.97%) WAN
7 26 (3.82%) VPN
8 25 (3.68%) HTTP
9 21 (3.09%) SSL
10 20 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
11 19 (2.79%) VSAN
12 13 (1.91%) BGP
12 13 (1.91%) SD-WAN
13 12 (1.76%) Internet
14 10 (1.47%) VLAN
15 8 (1.18%) OSPF
15 8 (1.18%) SMTP
15 8 (1.18%) SNMP
16 7 (1.03%) LAN
16 7 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.09%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (0.74%) 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 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.76%) Git
4 11 (1.62%) GitLab
5 5 (0.74%) 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
1 240 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 98 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (12.50%) Finance
4 77 (11.32%) Public Sector
5 48 (7.06%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (4.12%) Banking
7 20 (2.94%) Military
8 12 (1.76%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.62%) Retail
9 11 (1.62%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.47%) Law
11 8 (1.18%) Legal
11 8 (1.18%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.03%) Back Office
12 7 (1.03%) Local Government
13 6 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.44%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 130 (19.12%) Analyst
2 112 (16.47%) Security Engineer
3 81 (11.91%) Architect
4 73 (10.74%) Security Analyst
5 64 (9.41%) SOC Analyst
6 59 (8.68%) Senior
7 56 (8.24%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 45 (6.62%) Consultant
9 36 (5.29%) Lead
10 34 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 30 (4.41%) Security Architect
11 30 (4.41%) SOC Engineer
12 27 (3.97%) SIEM Engineer
13 26 (3.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 26 (3.82%) Network Engineer
14 25 (3.68%) Security Specialist
15 24 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 24 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
16 22 (3.24%) Operations Analyst
17 20 (2.94%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (15.00%) Terraform
2 64 (9.41%) LDAP
3 18 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (2.21%) SailPoint
5 14 (2.06%) REST
6 11 (1.62%) JSON
6 11 (1.62%) Kafka
7 10 (1.47%) ARM Templates
8 8 (1.18%) 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 (0.74%) 802.1X
11 5 (0.74%) eBPF
11 5 (0.74%) OAuth
11 5 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.59%) CSS
13 3 (0.44%) LangChain
13 3 (0.44%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 104 (15.29%) Onboarding
2 89 (13.09%) Security Posture
3 78 (11.47%) Cyber Threat
4 68 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 66 (9.71%) Cloud Native
6 46 (6.76%) Cyber Defence
7 45 (6.62%) Management Information System
8 43 (6.32%) Operational Technology
9 29 (4.26%) Data Centre
10 27 (3.97%) PKI
11 25 (3.68%) Cloud Security Posture
12 17 (2.50%) CMDB
13 16 (2.35%) CSOC
14 15 (2.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 14 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
16 13 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
17 12 (1.76%) SCADA
18 10 (1.47%) Replication
18 10 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
19 9 (1.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 151 (22.21%) Windows
2 142 (20.88%) Linux
3 39 (5.74%) Unix
4 30 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (4.12%) 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 (54.41%) Cybersecurity
2 241 (35.44%) Incident Response
3 208 (30.59%) Security Operations
4 156 (22.94%) Cloud Security
5 152 (22.35%) Security Monitoring
6 147 (21.62%) Threat Detection
7 127 (18.68%) Vulnerability Management
8 122 (17.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 119 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 112 (16.47%) CI/CD
11 110 (16.18%) Security Architecture
11 110 (16.18%) Threat Intelligence
12 109 (16.03%) SOAR
13 100 (14.71%) ITSM
14 95 (13.97%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 93 (13.68%) DevOps
15 93 (13.68%) DevSecOps
16 88 (12.94%) Infrastructure as Code
17 83 (12.21%) Runbook
18 82 (12.06%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 156 (22.94%) Python
2 148 (21.76%) PowerShell
3 88 (12.94%) Bash
4 47 (6.91%) Kusto Query Language
5 24 (3.53%) SQL
6 21 (3.09%) Bicep
6 21 (3.09%) Java
7 20 (2.94%) 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 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 194 (28.53%) SC Cleared
3 143 (21.03%) CISSP
4 131 (19.26%) DV Cleared
5 81 (11.91%) CISM
6 62 (9.12%) Degree
7 53 (7.79%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 38 (5.59%) AWS Certification
10 34 (5.00%) GIAC
11 29 (4.26%) Azure Certification
12 26 (3.82%) CompTIA Security+
13 23 (3.38%) CCSP
13 23 (3.38%) GCIH
14 22 (3.24%) CEH
15 20 (2.94%) SANS
16 18 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (2.50%) GSEC
18 16 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
18 16 (2.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (26.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 175 (25.74%) NIST
3 60 (8.82%) GDPR
4 50 (7.35%) NCSC
5 36 (5.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (3.82%) PCI DSS
7 19 (2.79%) GRC
8 13 (1.91%) NIST 800
9 12 (1.76%) SLA
10 11 (1.62%) PMO
11 10 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (1.47%) HIPAA
12 9 (1.32%) ISO 31000
12 9 (1.32%) QA
12 9 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.74%) COBIT
13 5 (0.74%) Data Quality
13 5 (0.74%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 159 (23.38%) Active Directory
2 39 (5.74%) Docker
3 38 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.94%) Hyper-V
5 18 (2.65%) VMware NSX
6 17 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.50%) vSphere
7 8 (1.18%) NFS
8 5 (0.74%) 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 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 57 (8.38%) Ansible
3 32 (4.71%) QRadar
4 23 (3.38%) Progress Chef
5 15 (2.21%) Grafana
6 14 (2.06%) VxRail
7 12 (1.76%) CASB
8 8 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (1.18%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.88%) Check_MK
9 6 (0.88%) Puppet
10 5 (0.74%) Istio
10 5 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.74%) linkerd
11 4 (0.59%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.59%) Packer
11 4 (0.59%) Podman
12 3 (0.44%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.44%) Nessus
Vendors
1 188 (27.65%) Microsoft
2 117 (17.21%) Splunk
3 97 (14.26%) CyberArk
4 42 (6.18%) CrowdStrike
4 42 (6.18%) VMware
5 38 (5.59%) ServiceNow
6 33 (4.85%) Google
7 29 (4.26%) BeyondTrust
8 26 (3.82%) Zscaler
9 22 (3.24%) Palo Alto
9 22 (3.24%) Red Hat
10 21 (3.09%) Cisco
10 21 (3.09%) Oracle
11 15 (2.21%) Tenable
12 14 (2.06%) ArcSight
12 14 (2.06%) Cribl.io
12 14 (2.06%) Qualys
13 13 (1.91%) Fortinet
13 13 (1.91%) Rapid7
14 11 (1.62%) LogRhythm