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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 190 163
Rank change year-on-year +23 -27 +148
Contract jobs citing SIEM 518 417 626
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.34% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 1.55% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 275 474
10th Percentile £400 £416 £450
25th Percentile £458 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £619
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £642 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £800 £825
UK median daily rate £537 £600 £618
% change year-on-year -10.50% -2.83% +2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 3
10th Percentile £43.16 - £65.00
25th Percentile £45.38 £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 £85.50 £67.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £97.50 £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 27,490 26,978 34,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.21% 86.87% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,441 16,489 23,672
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,813 961 1,464
10th Percentile £14.87 £15.10 £14.51
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +26.90%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £74.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.36% +25.57%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 20 November 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 +10 222 £575 - 148
South East +53 110 £492 -18.00% 87
Midlands -24 57 £525 -17.32% 36
West Midlands -37 49 £540 -14.96% 30
North of England -27 48 £500 -9.09% 32
South West -28 38 £540 -21.74% 21
North West -12 29 £458 -16.82% 23
East of England -4 25 £600 +9.09% 10
Yorkshire -27 18 £520 -20.00% 7
East Midlands - 8 £450 - 6
North East -10 1 £545 +28.24% 2
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 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.77%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.58%) Confluence
4 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) 1Password
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.58%) Maximo
2 2 (0.39%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 191 (36.87%) Azure
2 163 (31.47%) AWS
3 71 (13.71%) Azure Sentinel
4 70 (13.51%) GCP
5 55 (10.62%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (7.53%) Entra ID
7 30 (5.79%) SaaS
8 18 (3.47%) GitHub
9 16 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
9 16 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 14 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.93%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (1.35%) OCI
15 6 (1.16%) AWS CloudTrail
15 6 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
16 5 (0.97%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 139 (26.83%) Firewall
2 95 (18.34%) Network Security
3 33 (6.37%) DNS
4 28 (5.41%) VPN
5 23 (4.44%) TCP/IP
6 19 (3.67%) Intrusion Detection
7 18 (3.47%) SSL
8 16 (3.09%) SMTP
9 14 (2.70%) HTTP
10 13 (2.51%) Internet
11 10 (1.93%) DHCP
12 9 (1.74%) FTP
13 8 (1.54%) LAN
13 8 (1.54%) WAN
14 6 (1.16%) BGP
14 6 (1.16%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
15 4 (0.77%) DKIM
15 4 (0.77%) DMARC
15 4 (0.77%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.74%) Data Lake
2 3 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (0.58%) Power BI
3 2 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.19%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.19%) Redis
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (1.74%) GitLab
1 9 (1.74%) JIRA
2 8 (1.54%) CircleCI
3 7 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.16%) Git
4 6 (1.16%) Snyk
5 4 (0.77%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.39%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.39%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.19%) MLflow
7 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 174 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 103 (19.88%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (13.13%) Finance
4 60 (11.58%) Public Sector
5 50 (9.65%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (4.25%) Banking
7 17 (3.28%) Legal
8 14 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.51%) Military
10 11 (2.12%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.35%) Retail
12 6 (1.16%) Back Office
12 6 (1.16%) Local Government
13 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.58%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.58%) Law
15 2 (0.39%) Financial Institution
16 1 (0.19%) Games
16 1 (0.19%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 115 (22.20%) Security Engineer
2 107 (20.66%) Analyst
3 81 (15.64%) Architect
4 58 (11.20%) Security Analyst
4 58 (11.20%) Security Architect
5 48 (9.27%) Senior
6 47 (9.07%) SOC Analyst
7 45 (8.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 39 (7.53%) SIEM Engineer
9 29 (5.60%) Lead
10 25 (4.83%) Consultant
10 25 (4.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 20 (3.86%) Security Manager
11 20 (3.86%) SOC Engineer
12 19 (3.67%) Security Consultant
13 15 (2.90%) Network Engineer
14 14 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (2.51%) Network Security Engineer
15 13 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
15 13 (2.51%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.60%) LDAP
2 10 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (1.93%) REST
3 7 (1.35%) SAML
4 6 (1.16%) Loki
5 5 (0.97%) .NET
5 5 (0.97%) JSON
5 5 (0.97%) Kafka
6 4 (0.77%) OAuth
6 4 (0.77%) OpenID
6 4 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (0.77%) Regular Expression
7 3 (0.58%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.58%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.39%) gRPC
8 2 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.39%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.39%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.39%) Streamlit
8 2 (0.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 83 (16.02%) Security Operations Centre
2 66 (12.74%) Security Posture
3 58 (11.20%) Cyber Threat
4 47 (9.07%) Onboarding
5 35 (6.76%) CSOC
6 34 (6.56%) Management Information System
7 30 (5.79%) Cyber Defence
8 22 (4.25%) Cloud Native
9 21 (4.05%) Operational Technology
9 21 (4.05%) PKI
10 14 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (2.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 12 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.93%) Cyber Security Posture
13 10 (1.93%) Cyberattack
13 10 (1.93%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.74%) Cloud Security Posture
15 8 (1.54%) Public Cloud
16 5 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 89 (17.18%) Windows
2 82 (15.83%) Linux
3 21 (4.05%) Unix
4 15 (2.90%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.77%) CentOS
8 3 (0.58%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.39%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 225 (43.44%) Incident Response
3 181 (34.94%) Security Operations
4 133 (25.68%) SOAR
5 113 (21.81%) Threat Detection
6 105 (20.27%) Cloud Security
7 98 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
8 83 (16.02%) Vulnerability Management
9 76 (14.67%) Threat Intelligence
10 67 (12.93%) Security Monitoring
11 65 (12.55%) Threat Modelling
12 63 (12.16%) CI/CD
13 62 (11.97%) DevOps
13 62 (11.97%) Information Security
14 60 (11.58%) Use Case
15 58 (11.20%) Security Architecture
16 57 (11.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
17 56 (10.81%) DevSecOps
18 55 (10.62%) Identity Access Management
19 54 (10.42%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 154 (29.73%) Python
2 140 (27.03%) PowerShell
3 57 (11.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 38 (7.34%) Bash
5 10 (1.93%) Bicep
6 9 (1.74%) Java
7 8 (1.54%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.16%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (0.77%) Go
9 4 (0.77%) SQL
10 3 (0.58%) C
10 3 (0.58%) C++
10 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.39%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.39%) Perl
11 2 (0.39%) PHP
11 2 (0.39%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.39%) VBScript
12 1 (0.19%) C#
12 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 191 (36.87%) Security Cleared
2 154 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 137 (26.45%) CISSP
4 63 (12.16%) CISM
5 51 (9.85%) Degree
6 44 (8.49%) DV Cleared
7 42 (8.11%) CEH
8 40 (7.72%) GIAC
9 37 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
10 34 (6.56%) CompTIA Security+
11 27 (5.21%) GCIH
12 24 (4.63%) GCIA
13 20 (3.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 17 (3.28%) AWS Certification
14 17 (3.28%) Azure Certification
15 16 (3.09%) CompTIA CySA+
16 15 (2.90%) CCSP
17 14 (2.70%) SANS
18 13 (2.51%) GCFA
18 13 (2.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (30.12%) NIST
2 143 (27.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 81 (15.64%) GDPR
4 35 (6.76%) PCI DSS
5 29 (5.60%) NCSC
6 28 (5.41%) HIPAA
7 17 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (2.12%) GRC
9 10 (1.93%) NIST 800
9 10 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (1.74%) SLA
11 8 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (1.35%) PSD2
12 7 (1.35%) QA
12 7 (1.35%) SOC 2
13 6 (1.16%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 1 (0.19%) Def Stans
System Software
1 68 (13.13%) Active Directory
2 35 (6.76%) Docker
3 8 (1.54%) Hyper-V
3 8 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.35%) Snort
5 4 (0.77%) Postfix
5 4 (0.77%) Squid
6 3 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.19%) GPFS
7 1 (0.19%) Lustre
7 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (8.11%) Terraform
2 40 (7.72%) Kubernetes
3 32 (6.18%) QRadar
4 20 (3.86%) Ansible
5 16 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (1.93%) CSIRT
7 9 (1.74%) Kibana
7 9 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.54%) Nessus
8 8 (1.54%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.54%) SCCM
9 7 (1.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 6 (1.16%) Grafana
10 6 (1.16%) WSUS
11 5 (0.97%) logstash
12 4 (0.77%) Nexpose
12 4 (0.77%) Suricata
13 3 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.58%) Argo
13 3 (0.58%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 177 (34.17%) Microsoft
2 143 (27.61%) Splunk
3 49 (9.46%) CrowdStrike
4 36 (6.95%) Palo Alto
5 34 (6.56%) CyberArk
6 29 (5.60%) BeyondTrust
7 28 (5.41%) Cisco
8 25 (4.83%) Google
9 22 (4.25%) ArcSight
9 22 (4.25%) Qualys
10 21 (4.05%) Zscaler
11 18 (3.47%) Fortinet
11 18 (3.47%) ServiceNow
12 17 (3.28%) LogRhythm
12 17 (3.28%) VMware
13 16 (3.09%) Forcepoint
14 14 (2.70%) Tenable
15 13 (2.51%) FireEye
16 10 (1.93%) Rapid7
17 8 (1.54%) Citrix