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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 188 162
Rank change year-on-year +36 -26 +113
Contract jobs citing SIEM 561 367 554
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.80% 1.36% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.53% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 240 427
10th Percentile £413 £406 £463
25th Percentile £463 £500 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £740
90th Percentile £750 £803 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 2
10th Percentile - - £63.75
25th Percentile £41.94 £56.25 £65.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - -16.36% +4.96%
75th Percentile £80.00 £58.75 £71.88
90th Percentile £85.40 - £73.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -17.86% +6.87%

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 27,490 23,991 31,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.32% 89.05% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,508 14,731 21,614
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,729 768 1,481
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.99 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +49 251 £600 +4.35% 32
South East +53 123 £492 -12.69% 48
Midlands -29 59 £525 -9.21% 25
West Midlands -25 52 £545 -5.75% 17
South West -15 45 £550 -10.20% 17
North of England -16 42 £500 -16.67% 33
North West -14 22 £458 -12.86% 17
East of England -8 21 £613 +8.89% 20
Yorkshire -36 17 £529 -18.65% 11
East Midlands - 7 £450 - 8
North East -6 3 £400 +14.29% 5
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 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.71%) Confluence
2 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.18%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.43%) Maximo
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 237 (42.25%) Azure
2 199 (35.47%) AWS
3 103 (18.36%) GCP
4 81 (14.44%) Azure Sentinel
5 52 (9.27%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (6.95%) Entra ID
7 23 (4.10%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (2.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 16 (2.85%) SaaS
9 15 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (2.67%) GitHub
10 13 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (1.78%) OpenShift
13 9 (1.60%) Azure AKS
14 8 (1.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 8 (1.43%) PaaS
15 7 (1.25%) IaaS
15 7 (1.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 130 (23.17%) Firewall
2 102 (18.18%) Network Security
3 43 (7.66%) DNS
4 36 (6.42%) TCP/IP
5 33 (5.88%) VPN
6 17 (3.03%) SSL
7 16 (2.85%) SMTP
8 15 (2.67%) DHCP
9 12 (2.14%) HTTP
9 12 (2.14%) Intrusion Detection
10 10 (1.78%) FTP
10 10 (1.78%) Internet
11 7 (1.25%) LAN
11 7 (1.25%) WAN
12 6 (1.07%) BGP
12 6 (1.07%) Wireshark
13 5 (0.89%) DKIM
13 5 (0.89%) DMARC
14 4 (0.71%) OSPF
14 4 (0.71%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.60%) Data Lake
1 9 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (0.71%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.36%) Power BI
4 1 (0.18%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.18%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (1.96%) JIRA
2 8 (1.43%) CircleCI
2 8 (1.43%) GitLab
3 7 (1.25%) Snyk
4 6 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.71%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.53%) Git
7 2 (0.36%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.36%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.18%) JUnit
8 1 (0.18%) MLflow
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 207 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 103 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (11.94%) Finance
4 56 (9.98%) Public Sector
5 45 (8.02%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (3.74%) Banking
7 13 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.96%) Military
9 10 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.60%) Legal
11 8 (1.43%) Retail
12 6 (1.07%) Back Office
13 5 (0.89%) Local Government
13 5 (0.89%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.71%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.36%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.18%) Games
16 1 (0.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 120 (21.39%) Security Engineer
2 110 (19.61%) Analyst
3 108 (19.25%) Architect
4 55 (9.80%) Senior
5 53 (9.45%) Security Analyst
6 49 (8.73%) SIEM Engineer
6 49 (8.73%) SOC Analyst
7 48 (8.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 40 (7.13%) Security Architect
9 36 (6.42%) CyberArk Architect
10 31 (5.53%) Lead
11 22 (3.92%) Consultant
12 21 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 20 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
13 20 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
14 18 (3.21%) SOC Engineer
15 17 (3.03%) Security Consultant
15 17 (3.03%) Security Manager
16 15 (2.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 14 (2.50%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (12.12%) LDAP
2 48 (8.56%) REST
3 35 (6.24%) SOAP
4 20 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (1.78%) SAML
6 8 (1.43%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.25%) OpenID
8 6 (1.07%) Kafka
8 6 (1.07%) Loki
9 5 (0.89%) JSON
9 5 (0.89%) OAuth
10 4 (0.71%) OAuth2
10 4 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.71%) Regular Expression
11 3 (0.53%) .NET
11 3 (0.53%) 802.1X
11 3 (0.53%) Lightning Web Components
11 3 (0.53%) Node.js
11 3 (0.53%) YAML
12 2 (0.36%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 88 (15.69%) Security Posture
2 76 (13.55%) Security Operations Centre
3 54 (9.63%) Cyber Threat
4 52 (9.27%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (7.13%) Onboarding
6 31 (5.53%) Cyber Defence
6 31 (5.53%) Management Information System
7 26 (4.63%) Cloud Native
8 24 (4.28%) Operational Technology
9 23 (4.10%) CSOC
10 22 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 20 (3.57%) PKI
12 17 (3.03%) Cyberattack
13 14 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (2.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 12 (2.14%) Cyber Security Posture
16 11 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
17 8 (1.43%) Public Cloud
18 6 (1.07%) Data Centre
18 6 (1.07%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 99 (17.65%) Windows
2 95 (16.93%) Linux
3 23 (4.10%) Windows Server
4 21 (3.74%) Unix
5 17 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.89%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.71%) CentOS
8 3 (0.53%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.36%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (49.91%) Cybersecurity
2 220 (39.22%) Incident Response
3 167 (29.77%) Security Operations
4 132 (23.53%) SOAR
5 127 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
6 123 (21.93%) Threat Detection
7 113 (20.14%) Cloud Security
8 80 (14.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 79 (14.08%) Vulnerability Management
10 75 (13.37%) CI/CD
11 73 (13.01%) DevOps
12 61 (10.87%) Threat Modelling
13 60 (10.70%) Infrastructure as Code
14 59 (10.52%) Identity Access Management
15 58 (10.34%) Security Architecture
15 58 (10.34%) Security Monitoring
16 56 (9.98%) Information Security
16 56 (9.98%) Zero Trust
17 55 (9.80%) Task Automation
18 54 (9.63%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 190 (33.87%) Python
2 178 (31.73%) PowerShell
3 58 (10.34%) Kusto Query Language
4 36 (6.42%) Bash
5 19 (3.39%) Bicep
6 9 (1.60%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.25%) Java
8 5 (0.89%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (0.89%) SQL
9 4 (0.71%) Go
10 3 (0.53%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.36%) C++
11 2 (0.36%) VBScript
12 1 (0.18%) C
12 1 (0.18%) Korn
12 1 (0.18%) R
12 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 248 (44.21%) Security Cleared
2 205 (36.54%) SC Cleared
3 134 (23.89%) CISSP
4 70 (12.48%) CISM
5 62 (11.05%) DV Cleared
6 50 (8.91%) Degree
7 40 (7.13%) CEH
8 38 (6.77%) GIAC
9 37 (6.60%) CompTIA Security+
10 29 (5.17%) Azure Certification
11 28 (4.99%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (3.57%) AWS Certification
13 18 (3.21%) GCIH
14 16 (2.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (2.85%) GCIA
15 15 (2.67%) CompTIA CySA+
16 14 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (2.32%) CCSP
17 13 (2.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 11 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (27.81%) NIST
2 142 (25.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 78 (13.90%) GDPR
4 37 (6.60%) PCI DSS
5 29 (5.17%) NCSC
6 26 (4.63%) HIPAA
7 16 (2.85%) NIST 800
8 15 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.78%) GRC
9 10 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (1.43%) JSP 440
11 7 (1.25%) PSD2
11 7 (1.25%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.89%) SLA
13 4 (0.71%) QA
14 2 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.18%) Def Stans
15 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 104 (18.54%) Active Directory
2 36 (6.42%) Docker
3 12 (2.14%) Hyper-V
3 12 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.43%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.25%) Snort
6 6 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.89%) Squid
8 4 (0.71%) Postfix
9 2 (0.36%) NFS
9 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.18%) GPFS
10 1 (0.18%) Lustre
10 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (10.34%) Terraform
2 52 (9.27%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.17%) QRadar
4 21 (3.74%) Ansible
5 18 (3.21%) Kibana
6 15 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.96%) Nessus
8 11 (1.96%) SCCM
9 10 (1.78%) WSUS
10 9 (1.60%) logstash
11 8 (1.43%) CSIRT
11 8 (1.43%) Prometheus
12 6 (1.07%) Grafana
13 4 (0.71%) Nexpose
13 4 (0.71%) Suricata
14 3 (0.53%) Argo
14 3 (0.53%) CASB
14 3 (0.53%) Fluentd
14 3 (0.53%) Icinga
Vendors
1 175 (31.19%) Microsoft
2 128 (22.82%) Splunk
3 71 (12.66%) CyberArk
4 62 (11.05%) BeyondTrust
5 38 (6.77%) CrowdStrike
6 34 (6.06%) Centrify
7 28 (4.99%) Palo Alto
7 28 (4.99%) Qualys
8 25 (4.46%) Cisco
9 23 (4.10%) Tenable
9 23 (4.10%) VMware
10 21 (3.74%) Google
11 19 (3.39%) Zscaler
12 17 (3.03%) FireEye
12 17 (3.03%) Fortinet
13 16 (2.85%) ArcSight
13 16 (2.85%) LogRhythm
14 14 (2.50%) Forcepoint
14 14 (2.50%) ServiceNow
15 12 (2.14%) Tanium