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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 185 157
Rank change year-on-year -3 -28 +2
Contract jobs citing SIEM 662 420 555
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.54% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.70% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 269 381
10th Percentile £413 £418 £425
25th Percentile £472 £468 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £630 £675 £700
90th Percentile £733 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £551 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +0.18% -6.78% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 12 9
10th Percentile £43.81 £45.08 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £45.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.25 £72.84 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +26.67% -23.33%
75th Percentile £83.75 £85.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £97.00 £98.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £63.25 £72.84 £57.50
% change year-on-year -13.16% +26.67% -23.33%

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 38,258 24,707 30,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.66% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 15,833 19,804
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,323 1,986
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.22 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.03 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -39 230 £575 -8.00% 106
South East +3 172 £523 +4.50% 96
North of England +13 119 £560 +4.19% 68
North West +18 91 £560 -8.38% 36
South West +2 53 £613 +11.36% 49
Midlands -42 44 £550 +27.91% 27
West Midlands -50 40 £550 +27.91% 18
Yorkshire -34 28 £563 +7.14% 20
East of England -41 25 £550 - 27
East Midlands -10 4 £461 - 9
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 16 (2.42%) Confluence
2 4 (0.60%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 230 (34.74%) Azure
2 173 (26.13%) AWS
3 96 (14.50%) Entra ID
4 89 (13.44%) GCP
5 60 (9.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 49 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (5.29%) Microsoft Purview
8 29 (4.38%) SaaS
9 21 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 18 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (2.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 15 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (2.27%) Datadog
13 14 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (1.96%) OpenShift
15 12 (1.81%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (1.81%) IaaS
15 12 (1.81%) Serverless
16 11 (1.66%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 120 (18.13%) Firewall
2 106 (16.01%) Network Security
3 44 (6.65%) DNS
4 37 (5.59%) TCP/IP
5 30 (4.53%) VPN
6 26 (3.93%) WAN
7 25 (3.78%) SSL
8 23 (3.47%) Intrusion Detection
9 18 (2.72%) BGP
9 18 (2.72%) HTTP
10 17 (2.57%) DHCP
11 16 (2.42%) Internet
12 15 (2.27%) SD-WAN
13 13 (1.96%) OSPF
13 13 (1.96%) VLAN
13 13 (1.96%) VSAN
14 12 (1.81%) IPsec
15 9 (1.36%) SSH
16 8 (1.21%) NGFW
16 8 (1.21%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.78%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (0.91%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (0.60%) Power BI
6 3 (0.45%) Hazelcast
6 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.30%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.30%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.15%) Metadata
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (3.93%) JIRA
2 13 (1.96%) Git
3 12 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.76%) Snyk
5 3 (0.45%) Claude Code
5 3 (0.45%) Selenium
6 2 (0.30%) GitLab
7 1 (0.15%) AppScan
7 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.15%) Subversion
7 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 184 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 92 (13.90%) Finance
3 82 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (11.78%) Public Sector
5 62 (9.37%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (4.53%) Banking
7 20 (3.02%) Military
8 10 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.51%) Retail
9 9 (1.36%) Local Government
10 8 (1.21%) Law
10 8 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.06%) Legal
12 6 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.91%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.45%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 122 (18.43%) Analyst
2 115 (17.37%) Security Engineer
3 81 (12.24%) Architect
4 61 (9.21%) Senior
5 57 (8.61%) SOC Analyst
6 52 (7.85%) Security Analyst
7 45 (6.80%) Security Architect
8 44 (6.65%) Consultant
9 39 (5.89%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 38 (5.74%) Lead
11 28 (4.23%) SOC Engineer
12 27 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 27 (4.08%) Network Engineer
12 27 (4.08%) SIEM Engineer
13 26 (3.93%) Security Manager
14 24 (3.63%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 23 (3.47%) Operations Analyst
16 20 (3.02%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 19 (2.87%) Cybersecurity Specialist
17 19 (2.87%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.38%) LDAP
2 27 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (2.42%) SailPoint
4 13 (1.96%) SAML
5 12 (1.81%) OpenID
5 12 (1.81%) REST
6 10 (1.51%) Kafka
7 9 (1.36%) 802.1X
7 9 (1.36%) LangChain
7 9 (1.36%) PyTorch
7 9 (1.36%) scikit-learn
8 6 (0.91%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (0.76%) eBPF
9 5 (0.76%) OAuth
9 5 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.60%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.60%) CSS
10 4 (0.60%) JSON
10 4 (0.60%) Middleware
10 4 (0.60%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 101 (15.26%) Onboarding
2 97 (14.65%) Security Posture
3 79 (11.93%) Cloud Native
4 71 (10.73%) Security Operations Centre
5 52 (7.85%) Cyber Threat
6 48 (7.25%) Operational Technology
7 41 (6.19%) Management Information System
8 34 (5.14%) Cyber Defence
9 25 (3.78%) Cloud Security Posture
10 23 (3.47%) Data Centre
11 18 (2.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 17 (2.57%) CSOC
12 17 (2.57%) PKI
13 15 (2.27%) SCADA
14 10 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (1.36%) Product Ownership
16 8 (1.21%) CMDB
16 8 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
17 7 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 144 (21.75%) Windows
2 143 (21.60%) Linux
3 42 (6.34%) Unix
4 28 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (4.23%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.06%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (53.93%) Cybersecurity
2 218 (32.93%) Incident Response
3 217 (32.78%) Security Operations
4 135 (20.39%) Cloud Security
5 126 (19.03%) CI/CD
6 111 (16.77%) Vulnerability Management
7 108 (16.31%) Threat Detection
8 106 (16.01%) DevOps
9 105 (15.86%) Security Monitoring
10 101 (15.26%) SOAR
11 94 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 94 (14.20%) Security Architecture
12 90 (13.60%) Zero Trust
13 89 (13.44%) Threat Intelligence
14 80 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
15 78 (11.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 76 (11.48%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
17 75 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
18 73 (11.03%) Use Case
19 71 (10.73%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 157 (23.72%) Python
2 130 (19.64%) PowerShell
3 71 (10.73%) Bash
4 45 (6.80%) Kusto Query Language
5 21 (3.17%) SQL
6 20 (3.02%) Java
7 14 (2.11%) Bicep
7 14 (2.11%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (1.06%) Perl
9 3 (0.45%) Groovy
9 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.30%) C
10 2 (0.30%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.15%) Lisp
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 278 (41.99%) Security Cleared
2 181 (27.34%) SC Cleared
3 135 (20.39%) CISSP
4 85 (12.84%) DV Cleared
5 75 (11.33%) CISM
6 63 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
6 63 (9.52%) Degree
7 40 (6.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 32 (4.83%) AWS Certification
9 30 (4.53%) GIAC
10 25 (3.78%) Azure Certification
11 24 (3.63%) CompTIA Security+
12 23 (3.47%) CCSP
13 22 (3.32%) CCNP
14 20 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (2.72%) CompTIA CySA+
15 18 (2.72%) GCIH
16 17 (2.57%) CEH
17 16 (2.42%) SANS
18 15 (2.27%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (24.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 150 (22.66%) NIST
3 73 (11.03%) GDPR
4 50 (7.55%) NCSC
5 30 (4.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 29 (4.38%) PCI DSS
7 17 (2.57%) GRC
8 16 (2.42%) PMO
9 15 (2.27%) HIPAA
10 14 (2.11%) SLA
11 12 (1.81%) SOC 2
12 10 (1.51%) NIST 800
12 10 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (1.36%) ISO 31000
14 8 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (1.21%) QA
15 5 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.76%) Data Quality
15 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 111 (16.77%) Active Directory
2 32 (4.83%) Docker
3 24 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.66%) VMware NSX
5 11 (1.66%) vSphere
6 10 (1.51%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.91%) Snort
9 4 (0.60%) Squid
10 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) NFS
11 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.15%) Samba
11 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 81 (12.24%) Terraform
2 65 (9.82%) Kubernetes
3 48 (7.25%) Ansible
4 30 (4.53%) QRadar
5 20 (3.02%) CASB
6 15 (2.27%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.51%) Grafana
8 10 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.06%) CSIRT
10 6 (0.91%) Kibana
10 6 (0.91%) logstash
10 6 (0.91%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.91%) Puppet
10 6 (0.91%) VxRail
11 5 (0.76%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.60%) Check_MK
12 4 (0.60%) Nessus
12 4 (0.60%) Packer
Vendors
1 175 (26.44%) Microsoft
2 117 (17.67%) Splunk
3 77 (11.63%) CyberArk
4 47 (7.10%) ServiceNow
5 41 (6.19%) BeyondTrust
5 41 (6.19%) CrowdStrike
6 36 (5.44%) Cisco
7 35 (5.29%) Google
8 30 (4.53%) Zscaler
9 27 (4.08%) VMware
10 24 (3.63%) Oracle
10 24 (3.63%) Qualys
11 23 (3.47%) Fortinet
12 21 (3.17%) Palo Alto
13 20 (3.02%) Red Hat
13 20 (3.02%) Tenable
14 19 (2.87%) Tanium
15 16 (2.42%) Okta
16 12 (1.81%) LogRhythm
17 11 (1.66%) Trend Micro