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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 187 149
Rank change year-on-year +8 -38 +10
Contract jobs citing SIEM 650 379 583
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.43% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.57% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 245 402
10th Percentile £413 £415 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £669 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 5 8
10th Percentile £37.44 £59.59 -
25th Percentile £45.03 £80.34 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.68 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.83% +65.49% -35.00%
75th Percentile £70.41 £100.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £103.30 £76.78
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £80.68 £48.75
% change year-on-year -31.83% +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 37,627 24,117 31,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.34% 90.98% 85.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,684 15,510 20,711
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,203 2,295
10th Percentile £15.26 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.93 £16.18
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.80
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.30 £72.95
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +74.79% -33.38% +0.67%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -26 232 £563 -7.22% 155
South East +22 170 £525 +5.00% 119
North of England +3 110 £558 -7.08% 62
North West +16 83 £558 -8.79% 31
Midlands -50 48 £545 +12.37% 25
South West +12 45 £606 - 59
West Midlands -58 42 £550 +13.40% 22
Yorkshire -38 27 £550 -8.33% 21
East of England -42 23 £550 - 37
East Midlands -11 6 £442 - 3
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 (2.31%) Confluence
2 5 (0.77%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) 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
1 216 (33.23%) Azure
2 157 (24.15%) AWS
3 92 (14.15%) Entra ID
4 86 (13.23%) GCP
5 56 (8.62%) Azure Sentinel
6 44 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (5.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (4.15%) SaaS
9 22 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 18 (2.77%) OpenShift
11 16 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (2.15%) Datadog
13 13 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 12 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (1.69%) IaaS
15 11 (1.69%) Serverless
16 10 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (1.54%) GitHub
17 9 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 109 (16.77%) Network Security
2 108 (16.62%) Firewall
3 36 (5.54%) DNS
4 29 (4.46%) VPN
5 26 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 26 (4.00%) WAN
6 24 (3.69%) SSL
7 22 (3.38%) Intrusion Detection
8 16 (2.46%) BGP
8 16 (2.46%) HTTP
8 16 (2.46%) SD-WAN
9 15 (2.31%) Internet
10 12 (1.85%) IPsec
10 12 (1.85%) VLAN
11 11 (1.69%) OSPF
12 9 (1.38%) DHCP
12 9 (1.38%) SSH
13 8 (1.23%) NGFW
13 8 (1.23%) SNMP
14 7 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.62%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.62%) Power BI
4 3 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
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%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.15%) Metadata
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (4.00%) JIRA
2 17 (2.62%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.00%) Git
4 6 (0.92%) Snyk
5 2 (0.31%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.31%) GitLab
6 1 (0.15%) AppScan
6 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.15%) Subversion
6 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 184 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 94 (14.46%) Finance
3 76 (11.69%) Public Sector
4 75 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (10.15%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (4.46%) Banking
7 19 (2.92%) Military
8 14 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.54%) Local Government
10 9 (1.38%) Retail
11 7 (1.08%) Legal
12 6 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.92%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.46%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.46%) Law
15 2 (0.31%) Advertising
15 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (19.38%) Analyst
2 110 (16.92%) Security Engineer
3 89 (13.69%) Architect
4 58 (8.92%) Senior
5 57 (8.77%) SOC Analyst
6 54 (8.31%) Security Analyst
7 44 (6.77%) Security Architect
8 43 (6.62%) Consultant
9 38 (5.85%) Lead
10 37 (5.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 30 (4.62%) SIEM Engineer
12 26 (4.00%) Security Manager
13 25 (3.85%) Network Engineer
14 24 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
14 24 (3.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 23 (3.54%) Operations Analyst
16 22 (3.38%) SOC Engineer
17 21 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
18 19 (2.92%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 19 (2.92%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.08%) LDAP
2 32 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (2.92%) SAML
4 18 (2.77%) OpenID
5 14 (2.15%) SailPoint
6 11 (1.69%) REST
7 10 (1.54%) 802.1X
8 9 (1.38%) LangChain
8 9 (1.38%) PyTorch
8 9 (1.38%) scikit-learn
9 8 (1.23%) Kafka
10 6 (0.92%) OAuth
11 5 (0.77%) eBPF
11 5 (0.77%) OAuth2
11 5 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.62%) Azure Blueprints
12 4 (0.62%) CSS
12 4 (0.62%) JSON
12 4 (0.62%) Middleware
13 3 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (14.62%) Onboarding
2 91 (14.00%) Security Posture
3 77 (11.85%) Cloud Native
4 71 (10.92%) Security Operations Centre
5 53 (8.15%) Cyber Threat
6 48 (7.38%) Operational Technology
7 40 (6.15%) Management Information System
8 30 (4.62%) Cyber Defence
9 20 (3.08%) Cloud Security Posture
10 17 (2.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 16 (2.46%) Data Centre
12 15 (2.31%) SCADA
13 13 (2.00%) CSOC
14 12 (1.85%) PKI
15 10 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (1.54%) Product Ownership
16 8 (1.23%) Cyberattack
16 8 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
17 7 (1.08%) CMDB
18 6 (0.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 133 (20.46%) Windows
2 132 (20.31%) Linux
3 41 (6.31%) Unix
4 27 (4.15%) Windows Server
5 23 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.23%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.15%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (53.54%) Cybersecurity
2 218 (33.54%) Security Operations
3 216 (33.23%) Incident Response
4 131 (20.15%) Cloud Security
5 119 (18.31%) CI/CD
6 110 (16.92%) DevOps
7 108 (16.62%) Vulnerability Management
8 106 (16.31%) Threat Detection
9 95 (14.62%) Security Architecture
9 95 (14.62%) SOAR
10 91 (14.00%) Security Monitoring
11 90 (13.85%) Zero Trust
12 86 (13.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 84 (12.92%) Threat Intelligence
14 75 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
15 74 (11.38%) Stakeholder Management
16 73 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 71 (10.92%) ITSM
18 70 (10.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
18 70 (10.77%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 153 (23.54%) Python
2 126 (19.38%) PowerShell
3 58 (8.92%) Bash
4 46 (7.08%) Kusto Query Language
5 17 (2.62%) SQL
6 15 (2.31%) Java
7 14 (2.15%) Search Processing Language
8 10 (1.54%) Bicep
9 7 (1.08%) Perl
10 3 (0.46%) Groovy
10 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.31%) C
12 1 (0.15%) Lisp
12 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 276 (42.46%) Security Cleared
2 183 (28.15%) SC Cleared
3 137 (21.08%) CISSP
4 80 (12.31%) DV Cleared
5 76 (11.69%) CISM
6 62 (9.54%) Degree
7 61 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (5.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 35 (5.38%) GIAC
10 26 (4.00%) AWS Certification
11 22 (3.38%) CCNP
11 22 (3.38%) CompTIA Security+
12 21 (3.23%) CCSP
13 20 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
14 19 (2.92%) Azure Certification
14 19 (2.92%) CEH
15 17 (2.62%) GCIH
16 15 (2.31%) CompTIA CySA+
16 15 (2.31%) SANS
17 14 (2.15%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (26.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 159 (24.46%) NIST
3 73 (11.23%) GDPR
4 49 (7.54%) NCSC
5 29 (4.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 29 (4.46%) PCI DSS
6 16 (2.46%) GRC
6 16 (2.46%) PMO
7 14 (2.15%) HIPAA
7 14 (2.15%) SLA
7 14 (2.15%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.38%) ISO 31000
9 9 (1.38%) NIST 800
10 8 (1.23%) QA
11 7 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.77%) Data Quality
14 4 (0.62%) COBIT
System Software
1 98 (15.08%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.92%) Docker
3 14 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.92%) Snort
7 4 (0.62%) Squid
8 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.46%) vSphere
9 2 (0.31%) 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 71 (10.92%) Terraform
2 59 (9.08%) Kubernetes
3 39 (6.00%) Ansible
4 26 (4.00%) QRadar
5 20 (3.08%) CASB
6 12 (1.85%) Progress Chef
6 12 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.69%) Kibana
8 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.38%) Grafana
10 8 (1.23%) logstash
11 7 (1.08%) CSIRT
12 6 (0.92%) Prometheus
12 6 (0.92%) Puppet
13 5 (0.77%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.62%) Nessus
14 4 (0.62%) Packer
15 3 (0.46%) Suricata
16 2 (0.31%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 168 (25.85%) Microsoft
2 121 (18.62%) Splunk
3 76 (11.69%) CyberArk
4 43 (6.62%) BeyondTrust
4 43 (6.62%) ServiceNow
5 40 (6.15%) CrowdStrike
6 35 (5.38%) Cisco
7 32 (4.92%) Google
8 28 (4.31%) Zscaler
9 26 (4.00%) Qualys
10 24 (3.69%) Fortinet
10 24 (3.69%) Oracle
11 23 (3.54%) Tanium
12 22 (3.38%) Palo Alto
12 22 (3.38%) Tenable
13 16 (2.46%) Okta
13 16 (2.46%) Red Hat
14 15 (2.31%) VMware
15 13 (2.00%) LogRhythm
16 11 (1.69%) ArcSight