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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 187 155
Rank change year-on-year +5 -32 +3
Contract jobs citing SIEM 664 395 572
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.46% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.60% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 249 390
10th Percentile £413 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £631 £663 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £551 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +0.18% -6.78% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 8
10th Percentile £43.81 £45.75 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.38 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.25 £80.68 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% +65.49% -35.00%
75th Percentile £83.75 £85.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £97.00 £100.00 £76.78
UK median hourly rate £63.25 £80.68 £48.75
% change year-on-year -21.60% +65.49% -35.00%

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 38,219 24,611 31,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.42% 90.71% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,063 15,813 20,400
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,375 1,290 2,230
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.60 £72.58
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -14 234 £575 -2.13% 109
South East +12 173 £525 +5.00% 171
North of England +6 115 £560 - 114
North West +19 87 £560 -8.38% 60
South West +7 51 £613 +11.36% 113
Midlands -46 46 £545 +26.74% 50
West Midlands -58 41 £550 +27.91% 27
Yorkshire -35 28 £563 +7.14% 36
East of England -38 26 £550 - 58
East Midlands -9 5 £447 - 23
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 15 (2.26%) Confluence
2 4 (0.60%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
4 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
2 5 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 224 (33.73%) Azure
2 164 (24.70%) AWS
3 96 (14.46%) Entra ID
4 85 (12.80%) GCP
5 60 (9.04%) Azure Sentinel
6 49 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (5.12%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (4.07%) SaaS
9 21 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (2.56%) OpenShift
11 16 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (2.11%) Datadog
13 14 (2.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 13 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (1.66%) GitHub
15 11 (1.66%) IaaS
15 11 (1.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 117 (17.62%) Firewall
2 109 (16.42%) Network Security
3 43 (6.48%) DNS
4 36 (5.42%) TCP/IP
5 31 (4.67%) VPN
6 27 (4.07%) WAN
7 24 (3.61%) SSL
8 22 (3.31%) Intrusion Detection
9 18 (2.71%) BGP
10 17 (2.56%) HTTP
11 16 (2.41%) SD-WAN
12 15 (2.26%) DHCP
12 15 (2.26%) Internet
13 13 (1.96%) OSPF
13 13 (1.96%) VLAN
14 12 (1.81%) IPsec
15 11 (1.66%) VSAN
16 9 (1.36%) SSH
17 8 (1.20%) NGFW
17 8 (1.20%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (0.60%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.60%) Power BI
5 3 (0.45%) Hazelcast
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%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.15%) Metadata
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (3.92%) JIRA
2 16 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.96%) Git
4 5 (0.75%) Snyk
5 3 (0.45%) Claude Code
5 3 (0.45%) Selenium
6 2 (0.30%) GitLab
7 1 (0.15%) AppScan
7 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.15%) Subversion
7 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 187 (28.16%) Social Skills
2 94 (14.16%) Finance
3 83 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (11.75%) Public Sector
5 65 (9.79%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (4.52%) Banking
7 20 (3.01%) Military
8 13 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.36%) Local Government
9 9 (1.36%) Retail
10 7 (1.05%) Legal
10 7 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.90%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.90%) Law
11 6 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.45%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 130 (19.58%) Analyst
2 113 (17.02%) Security Engineer
3 83 (12.50%) Architect
4 62 (9.34%) Senior
5 61 (9.19%) SOC Analyst
6 56 (8.43%) Security Analyst
7 43 (6.48%) Consultant
7 43 (6.48%) Security Architect
8 39 (5.87%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 38 (5.72%) Lead
10 33 (4.97%) SIEM Engineer
11 27 (4.07%) Network Engineer
12 26 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
12 26 (3.92%) SOC Engineer
13 25 (3.77%) Security Manager
14 24 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 23 (3.46%) Operations Analyst
16 21 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
17 19 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 18 (2.71%) CyberArk Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.67%) LDAP
2 30 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
3 18 (2.71%) SAML
4 17 (2.56%) OpenID
5 14 (2.11%) SailPoint
6 12 (1.81%) REST
7 10 (1.51%) Kafka
8 9 (1.36%) 802.1X
8 9 (1.36%) LangChain
8 9 (1.36%) PyTorch
8 9 (1.36%) scikit-learn
9 6 (0.90%) OAuth
10 5 (0.75%) Azure Blueprints
10 5 (0.75%) eBPF
10 5 (0.75%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.60%) CSS
11 4 (0.60%) JSON
11 4 (0.60%) Middleware
12 3 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (15.36%) Onboarding
2 94 (14.16%) Security Posture
3 77 (11.60%) Cloud Native
4 73 (10.99%) Security Operations Centre
5 51 (7.68%) Cyber Threat
6 48 (7.23%) Operational Technology
7 40 (6.02%) Management Information System
8 32 (4.82%) Cyber Defence
9 22 (3.31%) Cloud Security Posture
10 21 (3.16%) Data Centre
11 17 (2.56%) CSOC
11 17 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 15 (2.26%) PKI
12 15 (2.26%) SCADA
13 10 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.51%) Product Ownership
14 8 (1.20%) CMDB
14 8 (1.20%) Cyberattack
14 8 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 143 (21.54%) Linux
1 143 (21.54%) Windows
2 42 (6.33%) Unix
3 28 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 25 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.20%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (54.52%) Cybersecurity
2 221 (33.28%) Security Operations
3 216 (32.53%) Incident Response
4 130 (19.58%) Cloud Security
5 126 (18.98%) CI/CD
6 109 (16.42%) DevOps
7 107 (16.11%) Threat Detection
7 107 (16.11%) Vulnerability Management
8 101 (15.21%) SOAR
9 98 (14.76%) Security Monitoring
10 95 (14.31%) Security Architecture
11 92 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 89 (13.40%) Threat Intelligence
12 89 (13.40%) Zero Trust
13 79 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
13 79 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 75 (11.30%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 75 (11.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 73 (10.99%) ITSM
16 72 (10.84%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 157 (23.64%) Python
2 132 (19.88%) PowerShell
3 67 (10.09%) Bash
4 48 (7.23%) Kusto Query Language
5 20 (3.01%) SQL
6 17 (2.56%) Java
7 15 (2.26%) Search Processing Language
8 11 (1.66%) Bicep
9 7 (1.05%) Perl
10 3 (0.45%) Groovy
10 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.30%) C
11 2 (0.30%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.15%) Lisp
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 285 (42.92%) Security Cleared
2 186 (28.01%) SC Cleared
3 134 (20.18%) CISSP
4 86 (12.95%) DV Cleared
5 73 (10.99%) CISM
6 63 (9.49%) Degree
7 62 (9.34%) Cisco Certification
8 39 (5.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 34 (5.12%) GIAC
10 28 (4.22%) AWS Certification
11 25 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
12 22 (3.31%) CCNP
12 22 (3.31%) CCSP
13 21 (3.16%) Azure Certification
13 21 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
14 19 (2.86%) CEH
14 19 (2.86%) CompTIA CySA+
15 18 (2.71%) GCIH
16 15 (2.26%) GCIA
16 15 (2.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (24.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 155 (23.34%) NIST
3 71 (10.69%) GDPR
4 53 (7.98%) NCSC
5 29 (4.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 29 (4.37%) PCI DSS
6 16 (2.41%) GRC
6 16 (2.41%) PMO
7 14 (2.11%) HIPAA
7 14 (2.11%) SLA
8 13 (1.96%) SOC 2
9 10 (1.51%) NIST 800
9 10 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (1.36%) ISO 31000
11 8 (1.20%) QA
12 7 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.75%) Data Quality
15 4 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 105 (15.81%) Active Directory
2 28 (4.22%) Docker
3 22 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.36%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.36%) vSphere
6 7 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.90%) Snort
8 4 (0.60%) Squid
9 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.15%) NFS
10 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.15%) Samba
10 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 77 (11.60%) Terraform
2 64 (9.64%) Kubernetes
3 46 (6.93%) Ansible
4 28 (4.22%) QRadar
5 20 (3.01%) CASB
6 13 (1.96%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.51%) Kibana
8 10 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.36%) Grafana
10 7 (1.05%) CSIRT
10 7 (1.05%) logstash
11 6 (0.90%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.90%) Puppet
12 5 (0.75%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.60%) Check_MK
13 4 (0.60%) Nessus
13 4 (0.60%) Packer
13 4 (0.60%) VxRail
Vendors
1 174 (26.20%) Microsoft
2 124 (18.67%) Splunk
3 76 (11.45%) CyberArk
4 47 (7.08%) ServiceNow
5 41 (6.17%) BeyondTrust
6 40 (6.02%) CrowdStrike
7 36 (5.42%) Cisco
8 34 (5.12%) Google
9 29 (4.37%) Zscaler
10 25 (3.77%) Qualys
10 25 (3.77%) VMware
11 24 (3.61%) Fortinet
11 24 (3.61%) Oracle
12 23 (3.46%) Tanium
13 22 (3.31%) Palo Alto
14 20 (3.01%) Tenable
15 17 (2.56%) Red Hat
16 16 (2.41%) Okta
17 13 (1.96%) LogRhythm
18 11 (1.66%) ArcSight