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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 165 164
Rank change year-on-year -32 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing SIEM 663 458 476
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.66% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.83% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 293 337
10th Percentile £413 £413 £445
25th Percentile £470 £468 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £635 £663 £713
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -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 38,776 25,061 28,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.80% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,043 15,975 18,472
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £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 2,543 1,444 1,583
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.88 £18.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.21 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -36 240 £568 -5.42% 143
South East +5 173 £567 +9.57% 111
North of England +13 117 £567 +6.73% 69
North West +19 89 £565 +21.18% 38
South West +11 67 £640 -9.38% 65
Yorkshire -23 28 £575 +6.98% 20
East of England -38 27 £550 - 31
Midlands -81 23 £525 +6.60% 26
West Midlands -79 20 £525 +5.00% 21
East Midlands -18 2 £550 +18.92% 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 14 (2.11%) 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%) 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 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 252 (38.01%) Azure
2 197 (29.71%) AWS
3 98 (14.78%) GCP
4 97 (14.63%) Entra ID
5 66 (9.95%) Azure Sentinel
6 53 (7.99%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (5.43%) Microsoft Purview
8 32 (4.83%) SaaS
9 23 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (3.02%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 16 (2.41%) GitHub
15 15 (2.26%) Datadog
16 14 (2.11%) AWS CloudTrail
16 14 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (1.81%) Serverless
19 11 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 121 (18.25%) Firewall
2 99 (14.93%) Network Security
3 52 (7.84%) DNS
4 45 (6.79%) TCP/IP
5 26 (3.92%) DHCP
6 25 (3.77%) WAN
7 24 (3.62%) SSL
8 23 (3.47%) Intrusion Detection
8 23 (3.47%) VPN
9 21 (3.17%) VSAN
10 19 (2.87%) HTTP
11 14 (2.11%) Internet
12 13 (1.96%) BGP
12 13 (1.96%) SD-WAN
12 13 (1.96%) VLAN
13 8 (1.21%) IPsec
13 8 (1.21%) OSPF
14 7 (1.06%) Cisco Firepower
14 7 (1.06%) SNMP
15 6 (0.90%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.32%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (0.75%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.75%) Hazelcast
4 4 (0.60%) Power BI
5 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.30%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.30%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.15%) Metadata
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 23 (3.47%) JIRA
2 14 (2.11%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.96%) Git
4 11 (1.66%) GitLab
5 5 (0.75%) Selenium
6 4 (0.60%) Snyk
7 3 (0.45%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.30%) MSI
9 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) Subversion
9 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 201 (30.32%) Social Skills
2 95 (14.33%) Finance
3 92 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 57 (8.60%) Documentation Skills
6 33 (4.98%) Banking
7 19 (2.87%) Military
8 12 (1.81%) Retail
9 11 (1.66%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.51%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.51%) Local Government
11 8 (1.21%) Law
11 8 (1.21%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.06%) Legal
13 6 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.45%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.45%) Digital Healthcare
15 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (18.85%) Analyst
2 111 (16.74%) Security Engineer
3 63 (9.50%) Architect
3 63 (9.50%) Senior
4 61 (9.20%) Security Analyst
5 59 (8.90%) SOC Analyst
6 46 (6.94%) Consultant
6 46 (6.94%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 39 (5.88%) Lead
8 32 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
8 32 (4.83%) Security Architect
9 28 (4.22%) SOC Engineer
10 27 (4.07%) Security Manager
11 24 (3.62%) Network Engineer
12 23 (3.47%) Operations Analyst
13 22 (3.32%) Security Specialist
13 22 (3.32%) SIEM Engineer
14 21 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 21 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Specialist
14 21 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (13.73%) Terraform
2 31 (4.68%) LDAP
3 19 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (2.11%) SailPoint
5 12 (1.81%) REST
6 11 (1.66%) Kafka
7 9 (1.36%) ARM Templates
8 8 (1.21%) 802.1X
9 7 (1.06%) Azure Blueprints
10 6 (0.90%) LangChain
10 6 (0.90%) PyTorch
10 6 (0.90%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.75%) eBPF
11 5 (0.75%) OAuth
11 5 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.60%) CSS
12 4 (0.60%) FIDO
12 4 (0.60%) JSON
12 4 (0.60%) SAML
12 4 (0.60%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 98 (14.78%) Security Posture
2 92 (13.88%) Onboarding
3 71 (10.71%) Security Operations Centre
4 65 (9.80%) Cloud Native
5 63 (9.50%) Cyber Threat
6 47 (7.09%) Operational Technology
7 42 (6.33%) Management Information System
8 36 (5.43%) Cyber Defence
9 31 (4.68%) Cloud Security Posture
10 27 (4.07%) Data Centre
11 26 (3.92%) PKI
12 19 (2.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 14 (2.11%) CSOC
13 14 (2.11%) SCADA
14 13 (1.96%) CMDB
14 13 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
16 9 (1.36%) Public Cloud
16 9 (1.36%) Replication
17 8 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 148 (22.32%) Windows
2 146 (22.02%) Linux
3 39 (5.88%) Unix
4 30 (4.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (3.92%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (54.15%) Cybersecurity
2 224 (33.79%) Incident Response
3 208 (31.37%) Security Operations
4 158 (23.83%) Cloud Security
5 130 (19.61%) CI/CD
6 128 (19.31%) Security Monitoring
7 126 (19.00%) Threat Detection
8 118 (17.80%) Vulnerability Management
9 105 (15.84%) SOAR
10 101 (15.23%) Threat Intelligence
11 96 (14.48%) DevOps
12 94 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 91 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 88 (13.27%) Zero Trust
15 87 (13.12%) Security Architecture
16 86 (12.97%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
17 85 (12.82%) DevSecOps
18 84 (12.67%) Infrastructure as Code
18 84 (12.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 80 (12.07%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 154 (23.23%) Python
2 139 (20.97%) PowerShell
3 86 (12.97%) Bash
4 43 (6.49%) Kusto Query Language
5 24 (3.62%) SQL
6 20 (3.02%) Bicep
6 20 (3.02%) Java
7 18 (2.71%) 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%) Go
10 2 (0.30%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 278 (41.93%) Security Cleared
2 168 (25.34%) SC Cleared
3 149 (22.47%) CISSP
4 104 (15.69%) DV Cleared
5 88 (13.27%) CISM
6 69 (10.41%) Cisco Certification
7 63 (9.50%) Degree
8 48 (7.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 37 (5.58%) AWS Certification
10 29 (4.37%) GIAC
11 28 (4.22%) Azure Certification
11 28 (4.22%) CompTIA Security+
12 24 (3.62%) GCIH
13 22 (3.32%) CCSP
13 22 (3.32%) CEH
14 20 (3.02%) CCNP
15 18 (2.71%) CompTIA CySA+
16 16 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (2.41%) GSEC
16 16 (2.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (24.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 155 (23.38%) NIST
3 73 (11.01%) GDPR
4 50 (7.54%) NCSC
5 33 (4.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 30 (4.52%) PCI DSS
7 16 (2.41%) GRC
8 15 (2.26%) SLA
9 14 (2.11%) PMO
10 13 (1.96%) HIPAA
10 13 (1.96%) NIST 800
10 13 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (1.51%) SOC 2
13 9 (1.36%) ISO 31000
14 8 (1.21%) QA
15 7 (1.06%) COBIT
16 5 (0.75%) Data Quality
17 3 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 127 (19.16%) Active Directory
2 38 (5.73%) Docker
3 31 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.87%) VMware NSX
5 18 (2.71%) vSphere
6 13 (1.96%) Hyper-V
7 11 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.06%) 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 66 (9.95%) Kubernetes
2 57 (8.60%) Ansible
3 30 (4.52%) QRadar
4 24 (3.62%) CASB
5 20 (3.02%) Progress Chef
6 14 (2.11%) VxRail
7 12 (1.81%) Grafana
8 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (1.21%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.90%) Check_MK
9 6 (0.90%) Puppet
10 5 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.60%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.60%) Istio
11 4 (0.60%) linkerd
11 4 (0.60%) Packer
11 4 (0.60%) Podman
12 3 (0.45%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.45%) Suricata
Vendors
1 184 (27.75%) Microsoft
2 107 (16.14%) Splunk
3 74 (11.16%) CyberArk
4 48 (7.24%) ServiceNow
5 41 (6.18%) CrowdStrike
6 36 (5.43%) Google
6 36 (5.43%) VMware
7 32 (4.83%) BeyondTrust
8 31 (4.68%) Zscaler
9 30 (4.52%) Cisco
10 22 (3.32%) Red Hat
11 21 (3.17%) Oracle
11 21 (3.17%) Qualys
12 20 (3.02%) Fortinet
12 20 (3.02%) Palo Alto
12 20 (3.02%) Tanium
13 18 (2.71%) Tenable
14 13 (1.96%) Cribl.io
15 12 (1.81%) Okta
16 11 (1.66%) ArcSight