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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 193 155
Rank change year-on-year +12 -38 +1
Contract jobs citing SIEM 647 378 587
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.45% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.59% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 243 408
10th Percentile £413 £414 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £672 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 5 8
10th Percentile £37.44 £59.59 -
25th Percentile £45.03 £80.34 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.68 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.83% +65.49% -35.00%
75th Percentile £70.41 £100.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £103.30 £76.78
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £80.68 £48.75
% change year-on-year -31.83% +65.49% -35.00%

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 37,490 23,760 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.05% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,605 15,276 20,748
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,184 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -20 232 £573 -5.57% 155
South East +24 168 £525 +5.00% 119
North of England +1 110 £558 -7.08% 62
North West +19 83 £558 -8.79% 31
Midlands -53 48 £545 +12.37% 25
South West +8 44 £600 -1.03% 59
West Midlands -58 42 £550 +13.40% 22
Yorkshire -36 27 £550 -8.33% 21
East of England -34 23 £550 - 37
East Midlands -10 6 £442 - 3
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 16 (2.47%) Confluence
2 5 (0.77%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 217 (33.54%) Azure
2 158 (24.42%) AWS
3 91 (14.06%) Entra ID
4 89 (13.76%) GCP
5 56 (8.66%) Azure Sentinel
6 42 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (5.10%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (4.17%) SaaS
9 22 (3.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 18 (2.78%) OpenShift
11 16 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (2.16%) Datadog
13 13 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (2.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 12 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (1.70%) IaaS
15 11 (1.70%) Serverless
16 10 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (1.55%) GitHub
17 9 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 108 (16.69%) Firewall
2 107 (16.54%) Network Security
3 35 (5.41%) DNS
4 29 (4.48%) VPN
5 26 (4.02%) WAN
6 25 (3.86%) TCP/IP
7 24 (3.71%) SSL
8 22 (3.40%) Intrusion Detection
9 16 (2.47%) BGP
9 16 (2.47%) SD-WAN
10 15 (2.32%) HTTP
10 15 (2.32%) Internet
11 12 (1.85%) IPsec
11 12 (1.85%) VLAN
12 11 (1.70%) OSPF
13 9 (1.39%) DHCP
13 9 (1.39%) SSH
14 8 (1.24%) NGFW
14 8 (1.24%) SNMP
15 7 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.86%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.62%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.62%) Power BI
4 3 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.15%) Metadata
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 27 (4.17%) JIRA
2 17 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.01%) Git
4 6 (0.93%) Snyk
5 2 (0.31%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.31%) GitLab
6 1 (0.15%) AppScan
6 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.15%) Subversion
6 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 186 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 94 (14.53%) Finance
3 75 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (11.44%) Public Sector
5 66 (10.20%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (4.48%) Banking
7 19 (2.94%) Military
8 14 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.55%) Local Government
10 9 (1.39%) Retail
11 7 (1.08%) Legal
12 6 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.93%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.77%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.46%) Law
15 3 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.31%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 122 (18.86%) Analyst
2 110 (17.00%) Security Engineer
3 92 (14.22%) Architect
4 57 (8.81%) Senior
5 53 (8.19%) Security Analyst
5 53 (8.19%) SOC Analyst
6 44 (6.80%) Security Architect
7 43 (6.65%) Consultant
8 38 (5.87%) Lead
9 37 (5.72%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 30 (4.64%) SIEM Engineer
11 26 (4.02%) Security Manager
12 25 (3.86%) Network Engineer
13 24 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
13 24 (3.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 22 (3.40%) Operations Analyst
15 21 (3.25%) CyberArk Architect
15 21 (3.25%) SOC Engineer
16 20 (3.09%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 20 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.56%) LDAP
2 32 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (2.94%) SAML
4 18 (2.78%) OpenID
5 14 (2.16%) REST
5 14 (2.16%) SailPoint
6 10 (1.55%) 802.1X
7 9 (1.39%) LangChain
7 9 (1.39%) PyTorch
7 9 (1.39%) scikit-learn
8 8 (1.24%) Kafka
9 6 (0.93%) OAuth
10 5 (0.77%) eBPF
10 5 (0.77%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.62%) Azure Blueprints
11 4 (0.62%) CSS
11 4 (0.62%) JSON
11 4 (0.62%) Middleware
11 4 (0.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 94 (14.53%) Security Posture
2 91 (14.06%) Onboarding
3 77 (11.90%) Cloud Native
4 69 (10.66%) Security Operations Centre
5 50 (7.73%) Cyber Threat
6 46 (7.11%) Operational Technology
7 40 (6.18%) Management Information System
8 28 (4.33%) Cyber Defence
9 20 (3.09%) Cloud Security Posture
10 17 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 16 (2.47%) Data Centre
12 15 (2.32%) SCADA
13 13 (2.01%) CSOC
14 12 (1.85%) PKI
15 10 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (1.55%) Product Ownership
16 8 (1.24%) Cyberattack
16 8 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
17 7 (1.08%) CMDB
18 6 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 132 (20.40%) Windows
2 131 (20.25%) Linux
3 41 (6.34%) Unix
4 27 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.93%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.15%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (53.17%) Cybersecurity
2 214 (33.08%) Security Operations
3 213 (32.92%) Incident Response
4 130 (20.09%) Cloud Security
5 116 (17.93%) CI/CD
6 110 (17.00%) DevOps
7 108 (16.69%) Vulnerability Management
8 106 (16.38%) Threat Detection
9 95 (14.68%) Security Architecture
10 92 (14.22%) SOAR
11 90 (13.91%) Security Monitoring
11 90 (13.91%) Zero Trust
12 84 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 81 (12.52%) Threat Intelligence
14 78 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
15 77 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 74 (11.44%) ITSM
16 74 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
17 70 (10.82%) Data Loss Prevention
18 68 (10.51%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 154 (23.80%) Python
2 128 (19.78%) PowerShell
3 58 (8.96%) Bash
4 45 (6.96%) Kusto Query Language
5 17 (2.63%) SQL
6 15 (2.32%) Java
7 13 (2.01%) Search Processing Language
8 10 (1.55%) Bicep
9 7 (1.08%) Perl
10 3 (0.46%) Groovy
10 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.15%) C
11 1 (0.15%) Lisp
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 274 (42.35%) Security Cleared
2 182 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 137 (21.17%) CISSP
4 79 (12.21%) DV Cleared
5 76 (11.75%) CISM
6 62 (9.58%) Degree
7 61 (9.43%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (5.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 34 (5.26%) GIAC
10 26 (4.02%) AWS Certification
11 22 (3.40%) CCNP
11 22 (3.40%) CompTIA Security+
12 21 (3.25%) CCSP
13 19 (2.94%) Azure Certification
13 19 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (2.94%) CEH
14 16 (2.47%) GCIH
15 15 (2.32%) SANS
16 14 (2.16%) CompTIA CySA+
17 13 (2.01%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (25.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 158 (24.42%) NIST
3 73 (11.28%) GDPR
4 43 (6.65%) NCSC
5 29 (4.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 29 (4.48%) PCI DSS
6 16 (2.47%) GRC
6 16 (2.47%) PMO
7 14 (2.16%) HIPAA
7 14 (2.16%) SLA
7 14 (2.16%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.39%) ISO 31000
10 8 (1.24%) NIST 800
10 8 (1.24%) QA
11 7 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.62%) Data Quality
System Software
1 100 (15.46%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.94%) Docker
3 14 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.93%) Snort
7 4 (0.62%) Squid
8 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.46%) vSphere
9 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.15%) NFS
10 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.15%) Samba
10 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 69 (10.66%) Terraform
2 59 (9.12%) Kubernetes
3 39 (6.03%) Ansible
4 26 (4.02%) QRadar
5 20 (3.09%) CASB
6 12 (1.85%) Progress Chef
6 12 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.70%) Kibana
8 10 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.39%) Grafana
10 8 (1.24%) logstash
11 6 (0.93%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.93%) Puppet
12 5 (0.77%) CSIRT
12 5 (0.77%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.62%) Nessus
13 4 (0.62%) Packer
14 3 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.46%) Suricata
15 2 (0.31%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 168 (25.97%) Microsoft
2 120 (18.55%) Splunk
3 79 (12.21%) CyberArk
4 46 (7.11%) BeyondTrust
5 43 (6.65%) ServiceNow
6 40 (6.18%) CrowdStrike
7 35 (5.41%) Cisco
8 32 (4.95%) Google
9 28 (4.33%) Zscaler
10 26 (4.02%) Qualys
11 24 (3.71%) Fortinet
11 24 (3.71%) Oracle
12 23 (3.55%) Tanium
13 22 (3.40%) Palo Alto
13 22 (3.40%) Tenable
14 16 (2.47%) Okta
14 16 (2.47%) Red Hat
15 15 (2.32%) VMware
16 13 (2.01%) LogRhythm
17 11 (1.70%) ArcSight