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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 175 166
Rank change year-on-year -22 -9 -10
Contract jobs citing SIEM 651 435 528
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.44% 1.58% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.74% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 272 362
10th Percentile £412 £420 £450
25th Percentile £463 £473 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £633 £675 £700
90th Percentile £734 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £558 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +1.36% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 9
10th Percentile £43.81 £45.15 -
25th Percentile £49.06 £45.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% +13.04% -23.33%
75th Percentile £83.75 £85.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £98.82 £97.00 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -0.77% +13.04% -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 38,641 24,977 29,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.76% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,154 16,016 19,101
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,371 1,780
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -41 228 £563 -6.25% 111
South East +7 177 £525 +2.44% 71
North of England +9 117 £565 +5.12% 49
North West +9 90 £564 -13.27% 29
South West +3 57 £640 +16.36% 28
Midlands -62 29 £600 +40.35% 15
Yorkshire -35 27 £575 +9.52% 17
West Midlands -71 27 £600 +40.35% 10
East of England -39 26 £550 - 9
East Midlands -12 2 £550 - 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 17 (2.61%) Confluence
2 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 234 (35.94%) Azure
2 182 (27.96%) AWS
3 95 (14.59%) Entra ID
4 90 (13.82%) GCP
5 60 (9.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 47 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (4.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 30 (4.61%) SaaS
9 22 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 18 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (2.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 16 (2.46%) Datadog
13 15 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (2.00%) GitHub
16 12 (1.84%) IaaS
16 12 (1.84%) Serverless
17 11 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
18 10 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 122 (18.74%) Firewall
2 103 (15.82%) Network Security
3 47 (7.22%) DNS
4 43 (6.61%) TCP/IP
5 28 (4.30%) VPN
6 27 (4.15%) WAN
7 25 (3.84%) SSL
8 22 (3.38%) DHCP
9 21 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
10 19 (2.92%) HTTP
10 19 (2.92%) VSAN
11 16 (2.46%) BGP
12 15 (2.30%) SD-WAN
13 14 (2.15%) Internet
14 13 (2.00%) VLAN
15 11 (1.69%) IPsec
15 11 (1.69%) OSPF
16 10 (1.54%) SSH
17 8 (1.23%) SNMP
18 7 (1.08%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.99%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
2 6 (0.92%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.61%) Hazelcast
3 4 (0.61%) Power BI
4 3 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.31%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.15%) Metadata
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (3.99%) JIRA
2 13 (2.00%) Git
3 7 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.77%) Snyk
5 4 (0.61%) GitLab
5 4 (0.61%) Selenium
6 3 (0.46%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.15%) Subversion
7 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 178 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 87 (13.36%) Finance
3 84 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.45%) Documentation Skills
6 32 (4.92%) Banking
7 21 (3.23%) Military
8 10 (1.54%) Retail
9 9 (1.38%) Local Government
9 9 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.23%) Law
11 7 (1.08%) Legal
12 6 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.92%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 126 (19.35%) Analyst
2 111 (17.05%) Security Engineer
3 69 (10.60%) Architect
4 61 (9.37%) Senior
5 57 (8.76%) SOC Analyst
6 56 (8.60%) Security Analyst
7 45 (6.91%) Consultant
8 43 (6.61%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 41 (6.30%) Security Architect
10 37 (5.68%) Lead
11 30 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
12 27 (4.15%) SOC Engineer
13 26 (3.99%) Network Engineer
14 25 (3.84%) Security Manager
15 23 (3.53%) Operations Analyst
16 22 (3.38%) SIEM Engineer
17 21 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Engineer
18 20 (3.07%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 18 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
20 17 (2.61%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.23%) LDAP
2 19 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (2.61%) SailPoint
4 11 (1.69%) REST
5 10 (1.54%) Kafka
6 9 (1.38%) 802.1X
6 9 (1.38%) LangChain
6 9 (1.38%) PyTorch
6 9 (1.38%) scikit-learn
7 6 (0.92%) Azure Blueprints
8 5 (0.77%) eBPF
8 5 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.61%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.61%) CSS
9 4 (0.61%) Middleware
10 3 (0.46%) JSON
10 3 (0.46%) OAuth
10 3 (0.46%) XML
11 2 (0.31%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.31%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 98 (15.05%) Onboarding
2 97 (14.90%) Security Posture
3 69 (10.60%) Cloud Native
4 65 (9.98%) Security Operations Centre
5 54 (8.29%) Cyber Threat
6 48 (7.37%) Operational Technology
7 42 (6.45%) Management Information System
8 35 (5.38%) Cyber Defence
9 28 (4.30%) Cloud Security Posture
9 28 (4.30%) Data Centre
10 24 (3.69%) PKI
11 19 (2.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 16 (2.46%) CSOC
13 14 (2.15%) SCADA
14 10 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (1.54%) CMDB
14 10 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
16 7 (1.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 7 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 150 (23.04%) Linux
2 149 (22.89%) Windows
3 45 (6.91%) Unix
4 30 (4.61%) Windows Server
5 28 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.08%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (52.84%) Cybersecurity
2 215 (33.03%) Incident Response
3 206 (31.64%) Security Operations
4 140 (21.51%) Cloud Security
5 122 (18.74%) CI/CD
6 114 (17.51%) Vulnerability Management
7 110 (16.90%) Threat Detection
8 109 (16.74%) Security Monitoring
9 97 (14.90%) SOAR
10 94 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 91 (13.98%) Security Architecture
12 90 (13.82%) DevOps
12 90 (13.82%) Threat Intelligence
13 89 (13.67%) Zero Trust
14 80 (12.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 77 (11.83%) Stakeholder Management
16 76 (11.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
17 75 (11.52%) DevSecOps
18 69 (10.60%) Infrastructure as Code
18 69 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 162 (24.88%) Python
2 134 (20.58%) PowerShell
3 80 (12.29%) Bash
4 45 (6.91%) Kusto Query Language
5 22 (3.38%) SQL
6 20 (3.07%) Java
7 15 (2.30%) Search Processing Language
8 14 (2.15%) Bicep
9 7 (1.08%) Perl
10 3 (0.46%) Groovy
10 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.31%) C
11 2 (0.31%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 270 (41.47%) Security Cleared
2 169 (25.96%) SC Cleared
3 131 (20.12%) CISSP
4 92 (14.13%) DV Cleared
5 70 (10.75%) CISM
6 67 (10.29%) Cisco Certification
7 63 (9.68%) Degree
8 44 (6.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 35 (5.38%) AWS Certification
10 26 (3.99%) GIAC
11 25 (3.84%) CompTIA Security+
12 24 (3.69%) CCSP
13 23 (3.53%) Azure Certification
14 22 (3.38%) CCNP
15 19 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
15 19 (2.92%) GCIH
16 18 (2.76%) CEH
16 18 (2.76%) CompTIA CySA+
17 16 (2.46%) SANS
18 14 (2.15%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (23.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 143 (21.97%) NIST
3 70 (10.75%) GDPR
4 41 (6.30%) NCSC
5 28 (4.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 27 (4.15%) PCI DSS
7 16 (2.46%) GRC
8 15 (2.30%) HIPAA
8 15 (2.30%) PMO
9 14 (2.15%) SLA
10 12 (1.84%) NIST 800
11 11 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (1.54%) SOC 2
13 9 (1.38%) ISO 31000
14 8 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (1.23%) QA
15 5 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.77%) COBIT
15 5 (0.77%) Data Quality
16 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 115 (17.67%) Active Directory
2 38 (5.84%) Docker
3 29 (4.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.61%) VMware NSX
5 16 (2.46%) vSphere
6 14 (2.15%) Hyper-V
7 12 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.77%) Snort
10 4 (0.61%) Squid
11 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.15%) NFS
12 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.15%) Samba
12 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 85 (13.06%) Terraform
2 61 (9.37%) Kubernetes
3 50 (7.68%) Ansible
4 30 (4.61%) QRadar
5 21 (3.23%) CASB
6 15 (2.30%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.84%) VxRail
8 11 (1.69%) Grafana
9 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.92%) CSIRT
10 6 (0.92%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.92%) Puppet
11 5 (0.77%) Check_MK
11 5 (0.77%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.61%) Packer
13 3 (0.46%) Nessus
13 3 (0.46%) Podman
13 3 (0.46%) Suricata
Vendors
1 168 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 105 (16.13%) Splunk
3 70 (10.75%) CyberArk
4 47 (7.22%) ServiceNow
5 41 (6.30%) CrowdStrike
6 38 (5.84%) BeyondTrust
7 36 (5.53%) Google
8 33 (5.07%) VMware
9 31 (4.76%) Zscaler
10 30 (4.61%) Cisco
11 24 (3.69%) Oracle
11 24 (3.69%) Qualys
12 22 (3.38%) Fortinet
13 20 (3.07%) Palo Alto
13 20 (3.07%) Red Hat
14 19 (2.92%) Tanium
14 19 (2.92%) Tenable
15 16 (2.46%) Okta
16 11 (1.69%) Trend Micro
17 10 (1.54%) ArcSight