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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 171 195
Rank change year-on-year -25 +24 -34
Contract jobs citing SIEM 670 457 429
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.68% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.85% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 298 296
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £725
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £552 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +0.36% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 10 4
10th Percentile £46.25 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +4.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £92.11 £85.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £98.82 £100.55 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +9.23% +4.00% -16.67%

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 38,742 24,707 27,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,892 15,711 17,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,598 1,453 1,393
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.41
25th Percentile £18.34 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -40 251 £568 -3.40% 311
South East -5 169 £575 +12.20% 115
North of England -18 103 £540 +2.86% 69
South West +9 77 £613 +2.08% 64
North West -4 74 £513 +12.02% 51
Yorkshire -24 29 £588 +9.30% 14
East of England -32 29 £550 - 41
Midlands -74 25 £500 -2.91% 23
West Midlands -71 22 £500 -3.66% 13
East Midlands -24 2 £550 +18.92% 10
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 (1.19%) Confluence
2 5 (0.75%) IIS
3 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.15%) Mendix
5 1 (0.15%) nginx
5 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 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
1 6 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 241 (35.97%) Azure
2 196 (29.25%) AWS
3 97 (14.48%) GCP
4 95 (14.18%) Entra ID
5 65 (9.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 59 (8.81%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (5.37%) Microsoft Purview
8 32 (4.78%) SaaS
9 23 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (2.54%) AWS CloudTrail
14 16 (2.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 15 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (2.24%) Datadog
15 15 (2.24%) Serverless
16 14 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (2.09%) GitHub
17 12 (1.79%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 110 (16.42%) Firewall
2 96 (14.33%) Network Security
3 49 (7.31%) DNS
4 42 (6.27%) TCP/IP
5 28 (4.18%) DHCP
6 25 (3.73%) WAN
7 24 (3.58%) SSL
8 22 (3.28%) Intrusion Detection
8 22 (3.28%) VPN
9 21 (3.13%) VSAN
10 20 (2.99%) HTTP
11 15 (2.24%) Internet
12 13 (1.94%) BGP
12 13 (1.94%) SD-WAN
13 10 (1.49%) VLAN
14 8 (1.19%) OSPF
15 7 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
15 7 (1.04%) SNMP
16 6 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
17 5 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (0.75%) Hazelcast
4 4 (0.60%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.60%) Power BI
5 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.30%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.15%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (2.39%) JIRA
2 14 (2.09%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.79%) Git
4 11 (1.64%) GitLab
5 5 (0.75%) Selenium
6 3 (0.45%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.30%) MSI
8 1 (0.15%) Snyk
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 219 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 93 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
3 90 (13.43%) Finance
4 78 (11.64%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (4.48%) Banking
7 20 (2.99%) Military
8 12 (1.79%) Retail
9 11 (1.64%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.49%) Local Government
11 9 (1.34%) Law
12 8 (1.19%) Legal
12 8 (1.19%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.75%) Back Office
14 5 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.45%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.45%) Digital Healthcare
15 3 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 133 (19.85%) Analyst
2 105 (15.67%) Security Engineer
3 71 (10.60%) Security Analyst
4 69 (10.30%) Architect
5 61 (9.10%) SOC Analyst
6 58 (8.66%) Senior
7 53 (7.91%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 47 (7.01%) Consultant
9 37 (5.52%) Lead
10 33 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
11 30 (4.48%) Security Architect
12 27 (4.03%) SOC Engineer
13 26 (3.88%) Security Manager
14 24 (3.58%) Security Specialist
15 23 (3.43%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 23 (3.43%) Network Engineer
15 23 (3.43%) Operations Analyst
15 23 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
16 22 (3.28%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 21 (3.13%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (13.28%) Terraform
2 47 (7.01%) LDAP
3 18 (2.69%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (2.09%) SailPoint
5 13 (1.94%) REST
6 11 (1.64%) Kafka
7 10 (1.49%) ARM Templates
8 9 (1.34%) JSON
9 8 (1.19%) Azure Blueprints
10 6 (0.90%) FIDO
10 6 (0.90%) WebAuthn
11 5 (0.75%) 802.1X
11 5 (0.75%) eBPF
11 5 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.75%) Regular Expression
12 4 (0.60%) CSS
12 4 (0.60%) OAuth
12 4 (0.60%) SAML
13 3 (0.45%) PyTorch
13 3 (0.45%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 96 (14.33%) Onboarding
2 91 (13.58%) Security Posture
3 72 (10.75%) Cyber Threat
4 69 (10.30%) Security Operations Centre
5 61 (9.10%) Cloud Native
6 42 (6.27%) Management Information System
6 42 (6.27%) Operational Technology
7 40 (5.97%) Cyber Defence
8 30 (4.48%) Cloud Security Posture
9 27 (4.03%) Data Centre
10 26 (3.88%) PKI
11 15 (2.24%) CMDB
11 15 (2.24%) CSOC
11 15 (2.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 13 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.64%) SCADA
14 10 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.34%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.34%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 152 (22.69%) Windows
2 142 (21.19%) Linux
3 40 (5.97%) Unix
4 30 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (4.18%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.90%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (54.78%) Cybersecurity
2 235 (35.07%) Incident Response
3 205 (30.60%) Security Operations
4 156 (23.28%) Cloud Security
5 139 (20.75%) Security Monitoring
5 139 (20.75%) Threat Detection
6 118 (17.61%) Vulnerability Management
7 116 (17.31%) CI/CD
8 107 (15.97%) SOAR
9 102 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 102 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 100 (14.93%) Threat Intelligence
11 92 (13.73%) DevOps
12 90 (13.43%) Security Architecture
13 88 (13.13%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 86 (12.84%) ITSM
15 83 (12.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 81 (12.09%) Incident Management
17 80 (11.94%) DevSecOps
18 79 (11.79%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 145 (21.64%) Python
2 140 (20.90%) PowerShell
3 85 (12.69%) Bash
4 43 (6.42%) Kusto Query Language
5 22 (3.28%) SQL
6 21 (3.13%) Bicep
6 21 (3.13%) Java
7 19 (2.84%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (1.04%) Perl
9 3 (0.45%) Groovy
9 3 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.30%) C
10 2 (0.30%) Go
10 2 (0.30%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 299 (44.63%) Security Cleared
2 179 (26.72%) SC Cleared
3 145 (21.64%) CISSP
4 118 (17.61%) DV Cleared
5 86 (12.84%) CISM
6 60 (8.96%) Degree
7 58 (8.66%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (6.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 37 (5.52%) AWS Certification
10 29 (4.33%) Azure Certification
11 28 (4.18%) GIAC
12 27 (4.03%) CompTIA Security+
13 24 (3.58%) GCIH
14 22 (3.28%) CEH
15 20 (2.99%) CCSP
16 18 (2.69%) SANS
17 17 (2.54%) CompTIA CySA+
17 17 (2.54%) GSEC
18 16 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
19 15 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (25.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 159 (23.73%) NIST
3 70 (10.45%) GDPR
4 49 (7.31%) NCSC
5 33 (4.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 28 (4.18%) PCI DSS
7 17 (2.54%) GRC
8 14 (2.09%) PMO
8 14 (2.09%) SLA
9 13 (1.94%) NIST 800
9 13 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 11 (1.64%) HIPAA
12 9 (1.34%) ISO 31000
13 8 (1.19%) QA
14 7 (1.04%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.90%) COBIT
16 5 (0.75%) Data Quality
17 2 (0.30%) ISA99
17 2 (0.30%) JSP 440
System Software
1 140 (20.90%) Active Directory
2 37 (5.52%) Docker
3 36 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.84%) VMware NSX
5 18 (2.69%) Hyper-V
5 18 (2.69%) vSphere
6 16 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.90%) NFS
9 4 (0.60%) Squid
10 2 (0.30%) Snort
10 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.15%) Samba
11 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 63 (9.40%) Kubernetes
2 54 (8.06%) Ansible
3 30 (4.48%) QRadar
4 23 (3.43%) CASB
5 20 (2.99%) Progress Chef
6 14 (2.09%) VxRail
7 12 (1.79%) Grafana
8 11 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.19%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.90%) Check_MK
11 6 (0.90%) Puppet
12 5 (0.75%) Istio
12 5 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.75%) linkerd
13 4 (0.60%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.60%) Packer
13 4 (0.60%) Podman
14 3 (0.45%) Nessus
14 3 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 184 (27.46%) Microsoft
2 109 (16.27%) Splunk
3 85 (12.69%) CyberArk
4 45 (6.72%) CrowdStrike
4 45 (6.72%) ServiceNow
5 41 (6.12%) VMware
6 33 (4.93%) Google
7 29 (4.33%) BeyondTrust
8 26 (3.88%) Zscaler
9 24 (3.58%) Cisco
10 22 (3.28%) Red Hat
11 21 (3.13%) Oracle
11 21 (3.13%) Palo Alto
12 20 (2.99%) Tanium
13 16 (2.39%) Qualys
14 14 (2.09%) Cribl.io
14 14 (2.09%) Fortinet
14 14 (2.09%) Tenable
15 11 (1.64%) ArcSight
15 11 (1.64%) Trend Micro