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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 198 167
Rank change year-on-year +36 -31 +122
Contract jobs citing SIEM 573 373 555
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.81% 1.35% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 1.52% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 246 425
10th Percentile £409 £406 £468
25th Percentile £463 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £738
90th Percentile £750 £800 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 2
10th Percentile £41.94 - £63.75
25th Percentile £45.00 £56.25 £65.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -16.36% +4.96%
75th Percentile £80.00 £58.75 £71.88
90th Percentile £85.00 - £73.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -17.86% +6.87%

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 27,998 24,551 32,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.52% 88.81% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,879 15,085 21,750
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,763 810 1,433
10th Percentile £15.19 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.49 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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 3 January 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 +38 255 £600 +4.35% 41
South East +46 125 £492 -12.69% 40
Midlands -31 59 £525 -11.13% 16
West Midlands -32 52 £545 -7.75% 12
South West -13 45 £545 -12.80% 14
North of England -31 43 £500 -16.67% 30
East of England -4 26 £613 +8.89% 14
North West -14 23 £458 -12.86% 15
Yorkshire -35 17 £529 -18.65% 10
East Midlands - 7 £450 - 4
North East -5 3 £400 +14.29% 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 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.70%) Confluence
2 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.17%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.40%) Maximo
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 241 (42.06%) Azure
2 200 (34.90%) AWS
3 104 (18.15%) GCP
4 86 (15.01%) Azure Sentinel
5 55 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
6 41 (7.16%) Entra ID
7 24 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (2.79%) Microsoft Purview
8 16 (2.79%) SaaS
9 15 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (2.62%) GitHub
10 13 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (1.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 9 (1.57%) Azure AKS
13 9 (1.57%) OpenShift
14 8 (1.40%) PaaS
15 7 (1.22%) IaaS
15 7 (1.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 134 (23.39%) Firewall
2 106 (18.50%) Network Security
3 49 (8.55%) DNS
4 38 (6.63%) TCP/IP
5 37 (6.46%) VPN
6 21 (3.66%) SMTP
6 21 (3.66%) SSL
7 17 (2.97%) HTTP
8 15 (2.62%) DHCP
9 14 (2.44%) FTP
10 13 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
11 10 (1.75%) Internet
12 7 (1.22%) LAN
12 7 (1.22%) WAN
13 6 (1.05%) BGP
13 6 (1.05%) Wireshark
14 5 (0.87%) DKIM
14 5 (0.87%) DMARC
15 4 (0.70%) OSPF
15 4 (0.70%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.57%) Data Lake
1 9 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (0.70%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.35%) Power BI
4 1 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.17%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (1.92%) JIRA
2 8 (1.40%) CircleCI
2 8 (1.40%) GitLab
3 7 (1.22%) Snyk
4 5 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.70%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.52%) Git
7 2 (0.35%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.35%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.17%) JUnit
8 1 (0.17%) MLflow
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 212 (37.00%) Social Skills
2 110 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (11.87%) Finance
4 59 (10.30%) Public Sector
5 45 (7.85%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (3.66%) Banking
7 14 (2.44%) Legal
8 13 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.09%) Military
10 10 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.40%) Retail
12 6 (1.05%) Back Office
12 6 (1.05%) Local Government
13 5 (0.87%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.35%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 124 (21.64%) Security Engineer
2 120 (20.94%) Analyst
3 105 (18.32%) Architect
4 57 (9.95%) Security Analyst
5 56 (9.77%) SOC Analyst
6 55 (9.60%) Senior
7 50 (8.73%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 49 (8.55%) SIEM Engineer
9 41 (7.16%) Security Architect
10 34 (5.93%) CyberArk Architect
11 32 (5.58%) Lead
12 25 (4.36%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 21 (3.66%) Consultant
14 20 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
15 18 (3.14%) SOC Engineer
16 17 (2.97%) Security Consultant
16 17 (2.97%) Security Manager
17 15 (2.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 14 (2.44%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (12.22%) LDAP
2 47 (8.20%) REST
3 34 (5.93%) SOAP
4 19 (3.32%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (1.57%) SAML
6 8 (1.40%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.05%) JSON
7 6 (1.05%) Kafka
7 6 (1.05%) Loki
7 6 (1.05%) OpenID
8 5 (0.87%) OAuth
9 4 (0.70%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (0.70%) Regular Expression
10 3 (0.52%) .NET
10 3 (0.52%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (0.52%) Node.js
10 3 (0.52%) YAML
11 2 (0.35%) gRPC
11 2 (0.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 91 (15.88%) Security Posture
2 82 (14.31%) Security Operations Centre
3 61 (10.65%) Cyber Threat
4 51 (8.90%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (6.98%) Onboarding
6 36 (6.28%) Management Information System
7 32 (5.58%) Cyber Defence
8 26 (4.54%) CSOC
9 25 (4.36%) Cloud Native
9 25 (4.36%) Operational Technology
10 22 (3.84%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (3.66%) Cyberattack
12 20 (3.49%) PKI
13 17 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (2.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 13 (2.27%) Cyber Security Posture
16 11 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
17 8 (1.40%) Data Centre
17 8 (1.40%) Public Cloud
18 6 (1.05%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 103 (17.98%) Windows
2 97 (16.93%) Linux
3 23 (4.01%) Windows Server
4 21 (3.66%) Unix
5 17 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.70%) CentOS
8 3 (0.52%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.35%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (50.61%) Cybersecurity
2 231 (40.31%) Incident Response
3 175 (30.54%) Security Operations
4 135 (23.56%) SOAR
5 131 (22.86%) Threat Detection
6 129 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
7 111 (19.37%) Cloud Security
8 82 (14.31%) Vulnerability Management
9 78 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 75 (13.09%) CI/CD
11 73 (12.74%) DevOps
12 63 (10.99%) Security Monitoring
12 63 (10.99%) Threat Modelling
13 61 (10.65%) Information Security
13 61 (10.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 60 (10.47%) Identity Access Management
15 59 (10.30%) Security Architecture
16 58 (10.12%) Threat Intelligence
17 57 (9.95%) Task Automation
18 56 (9.77%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 197 (34.38%) Python
2 188 (32.81%) PowerShell
3 61 (10.65%) Kusto Query Language
4 38 (6.63%) Bash
5 19 (3.32%) Bicep
6 9 (1.57%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.22%) Java
8 5 (0.87%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (0.87%) SQL
9 4 (0.70%) Go
10 3 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.35%) C++
11 2 (0.35%) VBScript
12 1 (0.17%) C
12 1 (0.17%) Korn
12 1 (0.17%) R
12 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 250 (43.63%) Security Cleared
2 207 (36.13%) SC Cleared
3 138 (24.08%) CISSP
4 71 (12.39%) CISM
5 61 (10.65%) DV Cleared
6 55 (9.60%) Degree
7 42 (7.33%) CEH
8 40 (6.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 40 (6.98%) GIAC
9 30 (5.24%) Azure Certification
10 29 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (3.66%) GCIH
12 20 (3.49%) AWS Certification
13 18 (3.14%) GCIA
14 17 (2.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 16 (2.79%) CompTIA CySA+
16 14 (2.44%) CCSP
16 14 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (2.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 12 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (27.92%) NIST
2 145 (25.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 80 (13.96%) GDPR
4 37 (6.46%) PCI DSS
5 28 (4.89%) HIPAA
5 28 (4.89%) NCSC
6 17 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (2.79%) NIST 800
8 10 (1.75%) GRC
8 10 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (1.40%) JSP 440
10 7 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (1.22%) PSD2
10 7 (1.22%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.87%) SLA
12 4 (0.70%) QA
13 2 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.17%) Def Stans
14 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 107 (18.67%) Active Directory
2 36 (6.28%) Docker
3 12 (2.09%) Hyper-V
3 12 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.40%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.22%) Snort
6 6 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.87%) Squid
8 4 (0.70%) Postfix
9 2 (0.35%) NFS
9 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.17%) GPFS
10 1 (0.17%) Lustre
10 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (10.12%) Terraform
2 51 (8.90%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.06%) QRadar
4 21 (3.66%) Ansible
5 18 (3.14%) Kibana
6 17 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.92%) Nessus
8 11 (1.92%) SCCM
9 10 (1.75%) WSUS
10 9 (1.57%) CSIRT
10 9 (1.57%) logstash
11 8 (1.40%) Prometheus
12 6 (1.05%) Grafana
13 4 (0.70%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 4 (0.70%) Nexpose
13 4 (0.70%) Suricata
14 3 (0.52%) CASB
14 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.52%) Icinga
Vendors
1 187 (32.64%) Microsoft
2 132 (23.04%) Splunk
3 69 (12.04%) CyberArk
4 61 (10.65%) BeyondTrust
5 43 (7.50%) CrowdStrike
6 33 (5.76%) Centrify
7 30 (5.24%) Palo Alto
8 29 (5.06%) Qualys
9 26 (4.54%) Cisco
10 24 (4.19%) Google
11 23 (4.01%) Tenable
11 23 (4.01%) VMware
12 19 (3.32%) Fortinet
12 19 (3.32%) LogRhythm
12 19 (3.32%) Zscaler
13 18 (3.14%) ArcSight
14 17 (2.97%) FireEye
15 15 (2.62%) Forcepoint
16 14 (2.44%) ServiceNow
17 12 (2.09%) Tanium