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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 186 142
Rank change year-on-year +8 -44 +36
Contract jobs citing SIEM 594 338 608
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.49% 1.37% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.51% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 219 438
10th Percentile £420 £406 £425
25th Percentile £475 £480 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £713
90th Percentile £750 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £558 £551 £600
% change year-on-year +1.18% -8.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 6
10th Percentile £30.69 £52.67 -
25th Percentile £42.88 £63.04 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.68 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.83% +101.69% -46.67%
75th Percentile £72.79 £81.01 £63.44
90th Percentile £83.00 - £74.63
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £80.68 £40.00
% change year-on-year -31.52% +101.69% -46.67%

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 33,939 22,408 32,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.13% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,724 14,703 21,181
10th Percentile £316 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,107 917 2,235
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.73 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -18 210 £600 +1.05% 74
South East +7 159 £500 -4.76% 76
North of England -9 81 £558 -3.88% 46
North West +15 63 £568 +8.19% 18
Midlands -41 61 £540 -2.00% 22
West Midlands -48 54 £550 -0.18% 12
South West -14 35 £575 +4.55% 10
East of England -30 23 £550 -8.33% 24
Yorkshire -57 15 £540 -11.84% 17
East Midlands - 7 £442 - 10
North East - 3 £400 - 11
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 15 (2.53%) Confluence
2 9 (1.52%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.17%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.17%) nginx
5 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Maximo
2 5 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 237 (39.90%) Azure
2 180 (30.30%) AWS
3 109 (18.35%) GCP
4 72 (12.12%) Azure Sentinel
5 64 (10.77%) Entra ID
6 47 (7.91%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (4.21%) OpenShift
8 24 (4.04%) Microsoft Purview
9 21 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (3.20%) SaaS
11 17 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (2.53%) GitHub
13 15 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (1.68%) Serverless
15 9 (1.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 9 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 9 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (16.50%) Firewall
2 87 (14.65%) Network Security
3 42 (7.07%) DNS
4 34 (5.72%) VPN
5 33 (5.56%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.53%) SSL
7 14 (2.36%) DHCP
8 10 (1.68%) Intrusion Detection
8 10 (1.68%) SMTP
9 9 (1.52%) HTTP
10 8 (1.35%) Internet
10 8 (1.35%) IPsec
10 8 (1.35%) WAN
11 7 (1.18%) BGP
11 7 (1.18%) MPLS
11 7 (1.18%) NGFW
11 7 (1.18%) OSPF
11 7 (1.18%) SD-WAN
11 7 (1.18%) SSH
12 6 (1.01%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.37%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.67%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.34%) Power BI
5 2 (0.34%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.34%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.17%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 30 (5.05%) JIRA
2 16 (2.69%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.18%) Git
3 7 (1.18%) GitLab
3 7 (1.18%) Snyk
4 2 (0.34%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.34%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.17%) AppScan
5 1 (0.17%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.17%) JUnit
5 1 (0.17%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 183 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 76 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (12.46%) Finance
4 66 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 54 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.03%) Banking
7 15 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.68%) Military
9 9 (1.52%) Legal
9 9 (1.52%) Retail
10 7 (1.18%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.67%) Local Government
13 3 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.17%) Advertising
15 1 (0.17%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.17%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 122 (20.54%) Architect
2 105 (17.68%) Security Engineer
3 94 (15.82%) Analyst
4 58 (9.76%) Senior
5 51 (8.59%) CyberArk Architect
5 51 (8.59%) SIEM Engineer
6 42 (7.07%) SOC Analyst
7 37 (6.23%) Security Architect
8 31 (5.22%) Consultant
9 28 (4.71%) Lead
9 28 (4.71%) Security Analyst
10 24 (4.04%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 20 (3.37%) Security Manager
11 20 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
12 17 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 14 (2.36%) SOC Engineer
14 13 (2.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (2.19%) Project Manager
15 12 (2.02%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (2.02%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (13.64%) LDAP
2 50 (8.42%) REST
3 39 (6.57%) Elastic Stack
4 36 (6.06%) SOAP
5 22 (3.70%) OpenID
5 22 (3.70%) SAML
6 10 (1.68%) Kafka
7 9 (1.52%) 802.1X
7 9 (1.52%) OAuth
8 8 (1.35%) SailPoint
9 7 (1.18%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.18%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.01%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.01%) JSON
10 6 (1.01%) LangChain
10 6 (1.01%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.84%) eBPF
11 5 (0.84%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.67%) ADO
12 4 (0.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 94 (15.82%) Security Posture
2 76 (12.79%) Onboarding
3 58 (9.76%) Cloud Native
4 52 (8.75%) Security Operations Centre
5 43 (7.24%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (5.89%) Cyber Threat
7 33 (5.56%) Operational Technology
8 32 (5.39%) Management Information System
9 19 (3.20%) Cloud Security Posture
10 16 (2.69%) Cyberattack
10 16 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (2.53%) Cyber Defence
11 15 (2.53%) PKI
11 15 (2.53%) Product Ownership
12 13 (2.19%) Cyber Security Posture
13 12 (2.02%) CSOC
13 12 (2.02%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.68%) SCADA
15 8 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
16 6 (1.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 112 (18.86%) Windows
2 111 (18.69%) Linux
3 29 (4.88%) Windows Server
4 23 (3.87%) Unix
5 20 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.67%) CentOS
8 3 (0.51%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.17%) VMS
10 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (44.78%) Cybersecurity
2 169 (28.45%) Incident Response
3 165 (27.78%) Security Operations
4 119 (20.03%) Problem-Solving
5 116 (19.53%) CI/CD
6 115 (19.36%) Threat Detection
7 107 (18.01%) DevOps
8 102 (17.17%) SOAR
9 101 (17.00%) Cloud Security
10 88 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 77 (12.96%) Vulnerability Management
12 75 (12.63%) ITSM
12 75 (12.63%) Privileged Access Management
13 73 (12.29%) Zero Trust
14 70 (11.78%) DevSecOps
15 69 (11.62%) Security Architecture
16 63 (10.61%) Threat Modelling
17 60 (10.10%) Infrastructure as Code
18 57 (9.60%) Data Loss Prevention
18 57 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 204 (34.34%) Python
2 179 (30.13%) PowerShell
3 55 (9.26%) Kusto Query Language
4 45 (7.58%) Bash
5 15 (2.53%) Bicep
6 13 (2.19%) SQL
7 9 (1.52%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.18%) Java
9 4 (0.67%) Go
9 4 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.17%) C
11 1 (0.17%) Groovy
11 1 (0.17%) Lisp
11 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 263 (44.28%) Security Cleared
2 204 (34.34%) SC Cleared
3 125 (21.04%) CISSP
4 73 (12.29%) CISM
5 61 (10.27%) DV Cleared
6 42 (7.07%) Degree
7 38 (6.40%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (6.06%) GIAC
9 31 (5.22%) CEH
10 25 (4.21%) CompTIA Security+
11 24 (4.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 24 (4.04%) Azure Certification
12 18 (3.03%) AWS Certification
13 14 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (2.19%) CCSP
15 12 (2.02%) CCNP
16 10 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (1.68%) GCIH
16 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (1.35%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (23.40%) NIST
2 132 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 66 (11.11%) GDPR
4 29 (4.88%) PCI DSS
5 27 (4.55%) NCSC
6 18 (3.03%) NIST 800
7 14 (2.36%) HIPAA
8 13 (2.19%) SOC 2
9 11 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (1.35%) GRC
12 6 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (1.01%) PMO
12 6 (1.01%) SLA
13 5 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.84%) COBIT
14 4 (0.67%) Data Quality
14 4 (0.67%) JSP 440
15 3 (0.51%) RMADS
System Software
1 124 (20.88%) Active Directory
2 24 (4.04%) Docker
3 15 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.52%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.52%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.18%) Snort
6 4 (0.67%) Postfix
6 4 (0.67%) Squid
6 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.34%) NFS
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 73 (12.29%) Kubernetes
2 64 (10.77%) Terraform
3 31 (5.22%) Ansible
4 25 (4.21%) Kibana
5 18 (3.03%) CASB
6 17 (2.86%) QRadar
7 15 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (2.36%) logstash
9 13 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.68%) Grafana
11 8 (1.35%) Nessus
12 6 (1.01%) SCCM
12 6 (1.01%) WSUS
13 5 (0.84%) CSIRT
13 5 (0.84%) Prometheus
14 4 (0.67%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.51%) Argo
15 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.51%) Icinga
15 3 (0.51%) Suricata
Vendors
1 158 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 122 (20.54%) Splunk
3 104 (17.51%) CyberArk
4 77 (12.96%) BeyondTrust
5 36 (6.06%) Centrify
6 32 (5.39%) ServiceNow
7 31 (5.22%) Cisco
8 29 (4.88%) Qualys
8 29 (4.88%) Tanium
9 27 (4.55%) Tenable
10 24 (4.04%) Zscaler
11 23 (3.87%) VMware
12 17 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
12 17 (2.86%) Fortinet
12 17 (2.86%) Palo Alto
13 15 (2.53%) Google
13 15 (2.53%) LogRhythm
14 14 (2.36%) Oracle
15 13 (2.19%) FireEye
16 12 (2.02%) Okta