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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 186 151
Rank change year-on-year +10 -35 +20
Contract jobs citing SIEM 644 371 583
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.51% 1.51% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.66% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 242 411
10th Percentile £413 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £478 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £652 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £570 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 4 8
10th Percentile £37.72 £56.13 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £71.69 £40.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £80.68 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.92% +65.49% -35.00%
75th Percentile £70.32 £85.76 £72.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £94.30 £76.78
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £80.68 £48.75
% change year-on-year -34.92% +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 36,315 22,393 32,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.15% 91.34% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,987 14,479 20,805
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £414 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,273 1,020 2,369
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.80
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.21 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.56% -25.45% +4.20%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -4 247 £580 -7.20% 96
South East +2 161 £525 +3.96% 129
North of England +4 103 £558 -3.88% 71
North West +32 80 £558 -0.45% 35
South West +13 45 £600 -1.03% 52
Midlands -62 45 £550 +2.42% 26
West Midlands -61 39 £550 +2.42% 21
Yorkshire -40 23 £570 -5.00% 24
East of England -37 20 £550 - 40
East Midlands -18 6 £438 - 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 18 (2.80%) Confluence
2 5 (0.78%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.16%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.78%) Maximo
1 5 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 241 (37.42%) Azure
2 179 (27.80%) AWS
3 111 (17.24%) GCP
4 88 (13.66%) Entra ID
5 60 (9.32%) Azure Sentinel
6 43 (6.68%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (4.97%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (3.73%) OpenShift
8 24 (3.73%) SaaS
8 24 (3.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (1.86%) Datadog
10 12 (1.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (1.71%) GitHub
12 10 (1.55%) IaaS
12 10 (1.55%) PaaS
13 9 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 97 (15.06%) Firewall
2 93 (14.44%) Network Security
3 39 (6.06%) DNS
4 31 (4.81%) VPN
5 28 (4.35%) TCP/IP
6 24 (3.73%) SSL
7 17 (2.64%) Intrusion Detection
7 17 (2.64%) WAN
8 14 (2.17%) HTTP
9 13 (2.02%) BGP
9 13 (2.02%) SD-WAN
9 13 (2.02%) VLAN
10 12 (1.86%) Internet
11 11 (1.71%) IPsec
12 9 (1.40%) OSPF
13 8 (1.24%) DHCP
13 8 (1.24%) SSH
14 7 (1.09%) MPLS
14 7 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
14 7 (1.09%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.73%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.62%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.62%) Power BI
5 3 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.16%) Metadata
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 27 (4.19%) JIRA
2 16 (2.48%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.71%) Git
4 7 (1.09%) Snyk
5 2 (0.31%) GitLab
6 1 (0.16%) AppScan
6 1 (0.16%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.16%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.16%) JUnit
6 1 (0.16%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 190 (29.50%) Social Skills
2 85 (13.20%) Finance
3 72 (11.18%) Public Sector
4 69 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (9.94%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (3.88%) Banking
7 19 (2.95%) Military
8 15 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.24%) Local Government
9 8 (1.24%) Retail
10 7 (1.09%) Legal
11 6 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.78%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.47%) Law
15 2 (0.31%) Advertising
15 2 (0.31%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.16%) Back Office
16 1 (0.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 119 (18.48%) Architect
2 114 (17.70%) Analyst
3 110 (17.08%) Security Engineer
4 61 (9.47%) Senior
5 51 (7.92%) CyberArk Architect
5 51 (7.92%) SOC Analyst
6 42 (6.52%) Security Analyst
7 39 (6.06%) Security Architect
8 38 (5.90%) Consultant
9 37 (5.75%) Lead
10 29 (4.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 29 (4.50%) SIEM Engineer
11 26 (4.04%) Security Manager
12 24 (3.73%) Senior Analyst
13 22 (3.42%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 21 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
14 21 (3.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 20 (3.11%) Network Engineer
15 20 (3.11%) Operations Analyst
15 20 (3.11%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (9.94%) LDAP
2 43 (6.68%) REST
3 33 (5.12%) SOAP
4 32 (4.97%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (3.26%) SAML
6 20 (3.11%) OpenID
7 13 (2.02%) SailPoint
8 11 (1.71%) 802.1X
9 9 (1.40%) Kafka
10 7 (1.09%) ARM Templates
10 7 (1.09%) OAuth
11 6 (0.93%) LangChain
11 6 (0.93%) OAuth2
11 6 (0.93%) PyTorch
11 6 (0.93%) scikit-learn
12 5 (0.78%) Azure Blueprints
13 4 (0.62%) ADO
13 4 (0.62%) eBPF
13 4 (0.62%) Middleware
13 4 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 108 (16.77%) Security Posture
2 84 (13.04%) Onboarding
3 69 (10.71%) Cloud Native
4 67 (10.40%) Security Operations Centre
5 50 (7.76%) Cyber Threat
6 43 (6.68%) Operational Technology
7 39 (6.06%) Management Information System
8 38 (5.90%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
10 19 (2.95%) Cloud Security Posture
11 16 (2.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 13 (2.02%) Data Centre
12 13 (2.02%) PKI
12 13 (2.02%) SCADA
13 12 (1.86%) Cyberattack
13 12 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.55%) CSOC
14 10 (1.55%) Product Ownership
15 9 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (1.24%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 132 (20.50%) Linux
2 131 (20.34%) Windows
3 37 (5.75%) Unix
4 30 (4.66%) Windows Server
5 20 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.47%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.16%) VMS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (49.84%) Cybersecurity
2 201 (31.21%) Incident Response
3 198 (30.75%) Security Operations
4 130 (20.19%) Cloud Security
5 112 (17.39%) CI/CD
6 109 (16.93%) DevOps
7 104 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (15.99%) Vulnerability Management
9 102 (15.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 99 (15.37%) Threat Detection
11 95 (14.75%) ITSM
12 93 (14.44%) SOAR
13 90 (13.98%) Zero Trust
14 87 (13.51%) Security Architecture
15 74 (11.49%) Privileged Access Management
15 74 (11.49%) Threat Intelligence
16 73 (11.34%) Security Monitoring
17 68 (10.56%) Data Loss Prevention
18 66 (10.25%) MITRE ATT&CK
19 65 (10.09%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 173 (26.86%) Python
2 151 (23.45%) PowerShell
3 53 (8.23%) Bash
4 44 (6.83%) Kusto Query Language
5 16 (2.48%) Bicep
5 16 (2.48%) SQL
6 13 (2.02%) Java
6 13 (2.02%) Search Processing Language
7 5 (0.78%) Perl
8 3 (0.47%) Groovy
8 3 (0.47%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.16%) C
9 1 (0.16%) Lisp
9 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 294 (45.65%) Security Cleared
2 210 (32.61%) SC Cleared
3 133 (20.65%) CISSP
4 80 (12.42%) CISM
5 74 (11.49%) DV Cleared
6 59 (9.16%) Degree
7 52 (8.07%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (5.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 32 (4.97%) GIAC
10 27 (4.19%) CompTIA Security+
11 24 (3.73%) AWS Certification
12 23 (3.57%) Azure Certification
13 19 (2.95%) CEH
14 18 (2.80%) CCSP
15 17 (2.64%) CCNP
16 16 (2.48%) CompTIA CySA+
17 15 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
18 14 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
18 14 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
18 14 (2.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (24.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 158 (24.53%) NIST
2 68 (10.56%) GDPR
3 37 (5.75%) NCSC
4 29 (4.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 27 (4.19%) PCI DSS
6 15 (2.33%) PMO
7 14 (2.17%) SOC 2
8 13 (2.02%) NIST 800
8 13 (2.02%) SLA
9 12 (1.86%) GRC
9 12 (1.86%) HIPAA
10 10 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (1.40%) ISO 31000
12 8 (1.24%) QA
13 6 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.78%) COBIT
15 4 (0.62%) JSP 440
System Software
1 130 (20.19%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.95%) Docker
3 14 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.93%) Snort
4 6 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.78%) Squid
5 5 (0.78%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.47%) vSphere
7 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.16%) NFS
8 1 (0.16%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 70 (10.87%) Terraform
2 64 (9.94%) Kubernetes
3 35 (5.43%) Ansible
4 23 (3.57%) QRadar
5 17 (2.64%) CASB
6 12 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.71%) Kibana
7 11 (1.71%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.40%) Grafana
8 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.24%) logstash
10 6 (0.93%) Nessus
11 5 (0.78%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.62%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.47%) Packer
13 3 (0.47%) Puppet
13 3 (0.47%) Suricata
14 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.31%) SCCM
14 2 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 159 (24.69%) Microsoft
2 121 (18.79%) Splunk
3 104 (16.15%) CyberArk
4 72 (11.18%) BeyondTrust
5 37 (5.75%) ServiceNow
6 36 (5.59%) Cisco
7 35 (5.43%) CrowdStrike
8 34 (5.28%) Centrify
9 28 (4.35%) Qualys
10 26 (4.04%) Google
11 24 (3.73%) Tenable
12 23 (3.57%) Zscaler
13 21 (3.26%) Palo Alto
13 21 (3.26%) Tanium
14 20 (3.11%) Fortinet
15 19 (2.95%) Oracle
15 19 (2.95%) Red Hat
16 18 (2.80%) VMware
17 16 (2.48%) Okta
18 13 (2.02%) LogRhythm