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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 166 174
Rank change year-on-year -26 +8 -18
Contract jobs citing SIEM 672 457 472
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.66% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.82% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 293 334
10th Percentile £413 £417 £450
25th Percentile £471 £468 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £631 £663 £713
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £569 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +3.45% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 12 5
10th Percentile £45.27 £45.08 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £72.84 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +7.91% -12.90%
75th Percentile £83.75 £85.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £98.82 £98.50 £77.30
UK median hourly rate £69.25 £72.84 £67.50
% change year-on-year -4.93% +7.91% -12.90%

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 38,860 25,068 28,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.79% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,530
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,442 1,597
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -33 241 £573 -4.58% 78
South East -6 172 £553 +7.80% 98
North of England -3 124 £569 +8.38% 66
North West +12 95 £569 +22.04% 35
South West +5 66 £645 -8.67% 58
Yorkshire -25 29 £563 +4.65% 20
East of England -42 27 £550 - 26
Midlands -77 26 £550 +6.80% 27
West Midlands -72 23 £550 +6.80% 21
East Midlands -18 2 £550 - 6
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 (2.38%) Confluence
2 2 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.15%) Apache
3 1 (0.15%) Mendix
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.15%) nginx
3 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
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 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 259 (38.54%) Azure
2 205 (30.51%) AWS
3 99 (14.73%) Entra ID
3 99 (14.73%) GCP
4 67 (9.97%) Azure Sentinel
5 53 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (5.21%) Microsoft Purview
7 32 (4.76%) SaaS
8 25 (3.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 23 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (2.98%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (2.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 16 (2.38%) Datadog
12 16 (2.38%) GitHub
13 15 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (2.23%) AWS CloudTrail
14 14 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (2.08%) Serverless
15 12 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 127 (18.90%) Firewall
2 99 (14.73%) Network Security
3 52 (7.74%) DNS
4 45 (6.70%) TCP/IP
5 26 (3.87%) DHCP
6 25 (3.72%) WAN
7 24 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
7 24 (3.57%) SSL
8 23 (3.42%) VPN
9 21 (3.13%) VSAN
10 19 (2.83%) HTTP
11 14 (2.08%) Internet
12 13 (1.93%) BGP
12 13 (1.93%) SD-WAN
12 13 (1.93%) VLAN
13 8 (1.19%) IPsec
13 8 (1.19%) OSPF
14 7 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
14 7 (1.04%) SNMP
15 6 (0.89%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.27%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (0.89%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.74%) Hazelcast
5 4 (0.60%) Power BI
6 3 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
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%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.15%) Metadata
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 25 (3.72%) JIRA
2 14 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.93%) Git
4 11 (1.64%) GitLab
5 5 (0.74%) Selenium
5 5 (0.74%) Snyk
6 3 (0.45%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.30%) MSI
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 200 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 95 (14.14%) Finance
3 92 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 57 (8.48%) Documentation Skills
6 33 (4.91%) Banking
7 19 (2.83%) Military
8 12 (1.79%) Retail
9 11 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.49%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.49%) Local Government
11 8 (1.19%) Law
11 8 (1.19%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.04%) Legal
13 6 (0.89%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.45%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.45%) Digital Healthcare
16 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (18.60%) Analyst
2 117 (17.41%) Security Engineer
3 66 (9.82%) Architect
4 63 (9.38%) Senior
5 61 (9.08%) Security Analyst
6 59 (8.78%) SOC Analyst
7 46 (6.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 45 (6.70%) Consultant
9 39 (5.80%) Lead
10 34 (5.06%) Security Architect
11 33 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 28 (4.17%) SOC Engineer
13 27 (4.02%) Security Manager
14 24 (3.57%) Network Engineer
15 23 (3.42%) Operations Analyst
16 22 (3.27%) SIEM Engineer
17 21 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 21 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
17 21 (3.13%) Security Specialist
18 20 (2.98%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.32%) LDAP
2 19 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (2.53%) SailPoint
4 13 (1.93%) REST
5 12 (1.79%) Kafka
6 9 (1.34%) ARM Templates
6 9 (1.34%) LangChain
6 9 (1.34%) PyTorch
6 9 (1.34%) scikit-learn
7 8 (1.19%) 802.1X
8 7 (1.04%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (0.74%) eBPF
9 5 (0.74%) JSON
9 5 (0.74%) OAuth
9 5 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.60%) CSS
10 4 (0.60%) FIDO
10 4 (0.60%) SAML
10 4 (0.60%) WebAuthn
11 3 (0.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 104 (15.48%) Security Posture
2 92 (13.69%) Onboarding
3 72 (10.71%) Cloud Native
4 71 (10.57%) Security Operations Centre
5 62 (9.23%) Cyber Threat
6 49 (7.29%) Operational Technology
7 45 (6.70%) Management Information System
8 36 (5.36%) Cyber Defence
9 33 (4.91%) Cloud Security Posture
10 27 (4.02%) Data Centre
11 26 (3.87%) PKI
12 19 (2.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 14 (2.08%) CMDB
13 14 (2.08%) CSOC
13 14 (2.08%) SCADA
14 13 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
17 9 (1.34%) Public Cloud
17 9 (1.34%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 149 (22.17%) Linux
2 148 (22.02%) Windows
3 40 (5.95%) Unix
4 32 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (3.87%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.04%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (54.02%) Cybersecurity
2 222 (33.04%) Incident Response
3 207 (30.80%) Security Operations
4 163 (24.26%) Cloud Security
5 136 (20.24%) CI/CD
6 126 (18.75%) Security Monitoring
6 126 (18.75%) Threat Detection
7 123 (18.30%) Vulnerability Management
8 107 (15.92%) SOAR
9 99 (14.73%) Threat Intelligence
10 97 (14.43%) DevOps
11 94 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 93 (13.84%) Security Architecture
13 90 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
13 90 (13.39%) Zero Trust
14 87 (12.95%) DevSecOps
15 85 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
15 85 (12.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 84 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
17 80 (11.90%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 162 (24.11%) Python
2 140 (20.83%) PowerShell
3 88 (13.10%) Bash
4 43 (6.40%) Kusto Query Language
5 26 (3.87%) SQL
6 22 (3.27%) Java
7 20 (2.98%) Bicep
8 19 (2.83%) Search Processing Language
9 7 (1.04%) Perl
10 3 (0.45%) Groovy
10 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.30%) C
11 2 (0.30%) Go
11 2 (0.30%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 280 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 168 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 151 (22.47%) CISSP
4 104 (15.48%) DV Cleared
5 88 (13.10%) CISM
6 68 (10.12%) Cisco Certification
7 64 (9.52%) Degree
8 47 (6.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 39 (5.80%) AWS Certification
10 29 (4.32%) Azure Certification
10 29 (4.32%) GIAC
11 28 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
12 24 (3.57%) GCIH
13 22 (3.27%) CCSP
13 22 (3.27%) CEH
14 20 (2.98%) CCNP
15 18 (2.68%) CompTIA CySA+
16 16 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (2.38%) GSEC
16 16 (2.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (24.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 156 (23.21%) NIST
3 75 (11.16%) GDPR
4 50 (7.44%) NCSC
5 33 (4.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 31 (4.61%) PCI DSS
7 15 (2.23%) GRC
7 15 (2.23%) HIPAA
7 15 (2.23%) SLA
8 14 (2.08%) PMO
8 14 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 12 (1.79%) NIST 800
10 11 (1.64%) SOC 2
11 9 (1.34%) ISO 31000
12 8 (1.19%) QA
13 7 (1.04%) COBIT
14 5 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.74%) Data Quality
15 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 126 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 41 (6.10%) Docker
3 31 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.83%) VMware NSX
5 18 (2.68%) vSphere
6 13 (1.93%) Hyper-V
7 11 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.60%) Squid
10 2 (0.30%) Snort
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 95 (14.14%) Terraform
2 69 (10.27%) Kubernetes
3 57 (8.48%) Ansible
4 30 (4.46%) QRadar
5 24 (3.57%) CASB
6 21 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 14 (2.08%) VxRail
8 13 (1.93%) Grafana
9 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.19%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.89%) Check_MK
10 6 (0.89%) Puppet
11 5 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.60%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.60%) Istio
12 4 (0.60%) linkerd
12 4 (0.60%) Packer
12 4 (0.60%) Podman
13 3 (0.45%) Suricata
Vendors
1 185 (27.53%) Microsoft
2 109 (16.22%) Splunk
3 73 (10.86%) CyberArk
4 49 (7.29%) ServiceNow
5 41 (6.10%) CrowdStrike
6 40 (5.95%) Google
7 36 (5.36%) VMware
8 33 (4.91%) BeyondTrust
9 31 (4.61%) Zscaler
10 30 (4.46%) Cisco
11 23 (3.42%) Qualys
11 23 (3.42%) Red Hat
12 21 (3.13%) Oracle
13 20 (2.98%) Fortinet
13 20 (2.98%) Palo Alto
13 20 (2.98%) Tanium
13 20 (2.98%) Tenable
14 14 (2.08%) Cribl.io
15 12 (1.79%) Okta
16 11 (1.64%) Trend Micro