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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 197 157
Rank change year-on-year +31 -40 +154
Contract jobs citing SIEM 492 414 680
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.74% 1.30% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 1.50% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 284 502
10th Percentile £400 £425 £444
25th Percentile £463 £512 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £658 £725 £725
90th Percentile £775 £850 £811
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £606
% change year-on-year -12.00% +3.14% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 3
10th Percentile £45.00 - £65.00
25th Percentile £45.56 £56.25 £68.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -23.33% +10.29%
75th Percentile £87.19 £67.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £99.38 £72.75 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -20.69% +6.62%

All Process and 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 25,696 27,604 36,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.95% 86.48% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,288 16,802 25,341
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,634 1,086 1,495
10th Percentile £14.51 £15.03 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £44.78 £67.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.43 £74.47 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £40.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -37.31% -9.60% +35.03%

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 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 2025. 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 +38 222 £588 +2.17% 98
South East +39 83 £518 -13.75% 81
Midlands -20 48 £500 -21.26% 33
East of England +31 43 £550 - 16
North of England -20 42 £520 -15.10% 61
West Midlands -29 41 £519 -18.27% 26
South West -13 38 £550 -20.72% 26
North West 0 30 £466 -15.23% 28
Yorkshire -25 12 £538 -23.21% 20
East Midlands - 7 £419 - 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 3 (0.61%) Confluence
2 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) 1Password
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Maximo
1 2 (0.41%) Oracle CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 160 (32.52%) Azure
2 148 (30.08%) AWS
3 63 (12.80%) Azure Sentinel
4 50 (10.16%) GCP
5 45 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (7.72%) SaaS
7 26 (5.28%) Entra ID
8 24 (4.88%) Amazon S3
9 23 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (4.27%) Amazon SQS
11 20 (4.07%) Cohesity
12 14 (2.85%) GitHub
13 11 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.42%) AWS CloudTrail
16 6 (1.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 6 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 132 (26.83%) Firewall
2 89 (18.09%) Network Security
3 48 (9.76%) DNS
4 32 (6.50%) VPN
5 25 (5.08%) TCP/IP
6 23 (4.67%) SSL
7 22 (4.47%) SAN
8 18 (3.66%) Intrusion Detection
9 13 (2.64%) HTTP
10 12 (2.44%) BGP
11 11 (2.24%) Internet
11 11 (2.24%) SMTP
12 9 (1.83%) FTP
12 9 (1.83%) OSPF
13 7 (1.42%) DHCP
13 7 (1.42%) VLAN
13 7 (1.42%) WAN
14 6 (1.22%) LAN
15 5 (1.02%) Wireshark
16 4 (0.81%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.83%) Data Lake
2 3 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (0.61%) Power BI
3 2 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.41%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.20%) Redis
4 1 (0.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (1.22%) CircleCI
1 6 (1.22%) Git
1 6 (1.22%) GitLab
1 6 (1.22%) Jenkins
1 6 (1.22%) JIRA
1 6 (1.22%) Snyk
2 4 (0.81%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.41%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.20%) MLflow
4 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 145 (29.47%) Social Skills
2 102 (20.73%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (12.80%) Finance
4 62 (12.60%) Public Sector
5 40 (8.13%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (4.67%) Banking
7 14 (2.85%) Legal
7 14 (2.85%) Military
8 13 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.03%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.63%) Local Government
12 6 (1.22%) Back Office
13 4 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.81%) Retail
14 3 (0.61%) Law
15 2 (0.41%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.41%) Marketing
16 1 (0.20%) Financial Institution
16 1 (0.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 112 (22.76%) Security Engineer
2 103 (20.93%) Analyst
3 93 (18.90%) Architect
4 73 (14.84%) Security Architect
5 57 (11.59%) Security Analyst
6 47 (9.55%) SOC Analyst
7 40 (8.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 40 (8.13%) Senior
8 31 (6.30%) SIEM Engineer
9 28 (5.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 25 (5.08%) Lead
11 22 (4.47%) Consultant
12 20 (4.07%) SOC Engineer
13 16 (3.25%) Security Consultant
13 16 (3.25%) Security Manager
14 15 (3.05%) Network Engineer
15 13 (2.64%) Network Security Engineer
15 13 (2.64%) Operations Analyst
15 13 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
16 12 (2.44%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.85%) LDAP
2 8 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.22%) Loki
4 5 (1.02%) SAML
5 4 (0.81%) .NET
5 4 (0.81%) REST
6 2 (0.41%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.41%) JSON
6 2 (0.41%) OAuth
6 2 (0.41%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.41%) OpenID
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.41%) React
6 2 (0.41%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.41%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.41%) Web Services
6 2 (0.41%) YAML
7 1 (0.20%) eBPF
7 1 (0.20%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.20%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 90 (18.29%) Security Operations Centre
2 66 (13.41%) Security Posture
3 61 (12.40%) Cyber Threat
4 49 (9.96%) Onboarding
5 45 (9.15%) CSOC
6 39 (7.93%) Management Information System
7 29 (5.89%) Cyber Defence
8 19 (3.86%) Cloud Native
9 16 (3.25%) PKI
10 14 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (2.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 11 (2.24%) Data Centre
11 11 (2.24%) Operational Technology
12 10 (2.03%) Cyberattack
12 10 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.63%) Cloud Security Posture
13 8 (1.63%) Cyber Security Posture
13 8 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 6 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 100 (20.33%) Windows
2 70 (14.23%) Linux
3 35 (7.11%) Windows Server
4 22 (4.47%) Unix
5 21 (4.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (4.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.61%) Check Point GAiA
7 3 (0.61%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.41%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.41%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (55.69%) Cybersecurity
2 210 (42.68%) Incident Response
3 184 (37.40%) Security Operations
4 126 (25.61%) SOAR
5 103 (20.93%) Cloud Security
6 97 (19.72%) Threat Detection
7 82 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 80 (16.26%) Vulnerability Management
9 79 (16.06%) Threat Intelligence
10 75 (15.24%) Security Monitoring
11 62 (12.60%) Use Case
12 60 (12.20%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 59 (11.99%) Information Security
14 58 (11.79%) Threat Modelling
15 57 (11.59%) Security Architecture
16 55 (11.18%) MITRE ATT&CK
17 49 (9.96%) DevOps
18 46 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
18 46 (9.35%) Identity Access Management
19 43 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 128 (26.02%) PowerShell
2 124 (25.20%) Python
3 49 (9.96%) Kusto Query Language
4 33 (6.71%) Bash
5 8 (1.63%) Bicep
5 8 (1.63%) Java
6 6 (1.22%) Search Processing Language
7 4 (0.81%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.61%) C++
8 3 (0.61%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.61%) SQL
9 2 (0.41%) C
9 2 (0.41%) Perl
9 2 (0.41%) PHP
9 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.41%) VBScript
10 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.20%) C#
10 1 (0.20%) Korn
10 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 193 (39.23%) Security Cleared
2 141 (28.66%) SC Cleared
3 105 (21.34%) CISSP
4 58 (11.79%) DV Cleared
5 47 (9.55%) Degree
6 43 (8.74%) CISM
7 34 (6.91%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (6.50%) CEH
9 29 (5.89%) GIAC
10 28 (5.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 25 (5.08%) GCIH
12 22 (4.47%) GCIA
13 15 (3.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (2.85%) CompTIA CySA+
15 13 (2.64%) CCNP
15 13 (2.64%) SANS
16 12 (2.44%) AWS Certification
16 12 (2.44%) Azure Certification
16 12 (2.44%) GCFA
17 11 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (26.42%) NIST
2 114 (23.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (13.62%) GDPR
4 32 (6.50%) HIPAA
5 30 (6.10%) PCI DSS
6 26 (5.28%) NCSC
7 18 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (1.83%) GRC
8 9 (1.83%) SLA
9 8 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (1.63%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (1.02%) JSP 440
10 5 (1.02%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.81%) PSD2
11 4 (0.81%) QA
12 3 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 64 (13.01%) Active Directory
2 25 (5.08%) Docker
3 23 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (4.07%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 20 (4.07%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (1.42%) Snort
6 4 (0.81%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.81%) Squid
7 3 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (7.52%) Ansible
2 32 (6.50%) Terraform
3 30 (6.10%) QRadar
4 27 (5.49%) Kubernetes
4 27 (5.49%) SCCM
5 25 (5.08%) WSUS
6 14 (2.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (1.83%) CSIRT
7 9 (1.83%) Nessus
7 9 (1.83%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 6 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.81%) Kibana
10 4 (0.81%) Nexpose
10 4 (0.81%) Suricata
11 3 (0.61%) Grafana
11 3 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.61%) logstash
12 2 (0.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 179 (36.38%) Microsoft
2 165 (33.54%) Splunk
3 46 (9.35%) CrowdStrike
4 37 (7.52%) Palo Alto
5 31 (6.30%) VMware
6 30 (6.10%) Cisco
7 23 (4.67%) ArcSight
8 22 (4.47%) Qualys
9 20 (4.07%) Fortinet
9 20 (4.07%) NetApp
10 19 (3.86%) CyberArk
10 19 (3.86%) Google
11 18 (3.66%) Zscaler
12 15 (3.05%) Forcepoint
12 15 (3.05%) ServiceNow
13 14 (2.85%) BeyondTrust
13 14 (2.85%) LogRhythm
14 10 (2.03%) CheckPoint
15 8 (1.63%) Citrix
15 8 (1.63%) IBM