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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 173 187
Rank change year-on-year -22 +14 -26
Contract jobs citing SIEM 651 455 448
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.42% 1.65% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.82% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 291 310
10th Percentile £413 £400 £436
25th Percentile £468 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -8.33% -0.99%
75th Percentile £638 £651 £723
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 11 4
10th Percentile £45.27 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £83.75 £85.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £98.82 £100.00 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £69.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.54% +4.00% -16.67%

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 38,772 25,064 28,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.82% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,937 15,945 18,292
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,483 1,510
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -34 243 £563 -6.25% 329
South East +2 167 £575 +15.00% 145
North of England -8 108 £540 +2.86% 112
North West -1 79 £525 +14.75% 68
South West +8 68 £640 +6.67% 95
Yorkshire -32 29 £588 +9.30% 31
Midlands -79 26 £500 - 39
East of England -44 24 £550 - 54
West Midlands -73 23 £500 -2.91% 26
East Midlands -18 2 £550 +18.92% 13
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 10 (1.54%) Confluence
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.15%) Apache
3 1 (0.15%) Mendix
3 1 (0.15%) nginx
3 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
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
1 6 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 243 (37.33%) Azure
2 191 (29.34%) AWS
3 99 (15.21%) GCP
4 92 (14.13%) Entra ID
5 67 (10.29%) Azure Sentinel
6 55 (8.45%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (5.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 32 (4.92%) SaaS
9 24 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (3.07%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (2.46%) GitHub
13 15 (2.30%) AWS CloudTrail
13 15 (2.30%) Datadog
13 15 (2.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 14 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (2.15%) Serverless
15 13 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 112 (17.20%) Firewall
2 94 (14.44%) Network Security
3 51 (7.83%) DNS
4 43 (6.61%) TCP/IP
5 27 (4.15%) DHCP
6 25 (3.84%) WAN
7 24 (3.69%) SSL
8 22 (3.38%) Intrusion Detection
9 21 (3.23%) VPN
9 21 (3.23%) VSAN
10 18 (2.76%) HTTP
11 14 (2.15%) Internet
12 13 (2.00%) BGP
12 13 (2.00%) SD-WAN
13 10 (1.54%) VLAN
14 8 (1.23%) OSPF
15 7 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
15 7 (1.08%) SNMP
16 5 (0.77%) LAN
16 5 (0.77%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (0.77%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.77%) Hazelcast
4 4 (0.61%) Power BI
5 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.31%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.15%) Metadata
7 1 (0.15%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (2.76%) JIRA
2 14 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.00%) Git
4 11 (1.69%) GitLab
5 5 (0.77%) Selenium
6 3 (0.46%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.31%) MSI
8 1 (0.15%) Snyk
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 202 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 90 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
3 88 (13.52%) Finance
4 76 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 57 (8.76%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (4.76%) Banking
7 19 (2.92%) Military
8 12 (1.84%) Retail
9 11 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.54%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.54%) Local Government
11 8 (1.23%) Law
11 8 (1.23%) Legal
11 8 (1.23%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.46%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.46%) Digital Healthcare
15 2 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 124 (19.05%) Analyst
2 102 (15.67%) Security Engineer
3 63 (9.68%) Security Analyst
4 59 (9.06%) Architect
4 59 (9.06%) SOC Analyst
5 58 (8.91%) Senior
6 48 (7.37%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 47 (7.22%) Consultant
8 39 (5.99%) Lead
9 31 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 29 (4.45%) Security Architect
11 27 (4.15%) SOC Engineer
12 26 (3.99%) Security Manager
13 24 (3.69%) Security Specialist
14 23 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Specialist
14 23 (3.53%) Network Engineer
14 23 (3.53%) Operations Analyst
14 23 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
14 23 (3.53%) SIEM Engineer
15 20 (3.07%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (13.67%) Terraform
2 34 (5.22%) LDAP
3 18 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (2.15%) SailPoint
5 13 (2.00%) REST
6 11 (1.69%) Kafka
7 9 (1.38%) ARM Templates
8 7 (1.08%) 802.1X
8 7 (1.08%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (0.77%) eBPF
9 5 (0.77%) FIDO
9 5 (0.77%) OAuth
9 5 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (0.77%) WebAuthn
10 4 (0.61%) CSS
10 4 (0.61%) JSON
10 4 (0.61%) SAML
11 3 (0.46%) LangChain
11 3 (0.46%) PyTorch
11 3 (0.46%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 92 (14.13%) Onboarding
2 91 (13.98%) Security Posture
3 67 (10.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 63 (9.68%) Cyber Threat
5 60 (9.22%) Cloud Native
6 42 (6.45%) Operational Technology
7 41 (6.30%) Management Information System
8 34 (5.22%) Cyber Defence
9 29 (4.45%) Cloud Security Posture
10 27 (4.15%) Data Centre
11 26 (3.99%) PKI
12 18 (2.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 14 (2.15%) CMDB
13 14 (2.15%) CSOC
14 13 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (1.69%) SCADA
16 9 (1.38%) Public Cloud
16 9 (1.38%) Replication
16 9 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 145 (22.27%) Windows
2 140 (21.51%) Linux
3 39 (5.99%) Unix
4 28 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (3.99%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.92%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (53.92%) Cybersecurity
2 228 (35.02%) Incident Response
3 202 (31.03%) Security Operations
4 154 (23.66%) Cloud Security
5 133 (20.43%) Security Monitoring
6 129 (19.82%) Threat Detection
7 122 (18.74%) CI/CD
8 112 (17.20%) Vulnerability Management
9 106 (16.28%) SOAR
10 100 (15.36%) Threat Intelligence
11 94 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 91 (13.98%) DevOps
12 91 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
13 85 (13.06%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 85 (13.06%) Zero Trust
14 82 (12.60%) Infrastructure as Code
14 82 (12.60%) Security Architecture
15 81 (12.44%) Incident Management
15 81 (12.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 79 (12.14%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 143 (21.97%) Python
2 135 (20.74%) PowerShell
3 83 (12.75%) Bash
4 42 (6.45%) Kusto Query Language
5 22 (3.38%) SQL
6 20 (3.07%) Bicep
7 19 (2.92%) Java
7 19 (2.92%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (1.08%) Perl
9 3 (0.46%) Groovy
9 3 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.31%) C
10 2 (0.31%) Go
10 2 (0.31%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 279 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 168 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 145 (22.27%) CISSP
4 105 (16.13%) DV Cleared
5 88 (13.52%) CISM
6 61 (9.37%) Cisco Certification
6 61 (9.37%) Degree
7 44 (6.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 34 (5.22%) AWS Certification
9 28 (4.30%) GIAC
10 27 (4.15%) CompTIA Security+
11 26 (3.99%) Azure Certification
12 25 (3.84%) GCIH
13 22 (3.38%) CEH
14 19 (2.92%) CCSP
15 17 (2.61%) CompTIA CySA+
15 17 (2.61%) GSEC
15 17 (2.61%) SANS
16 16 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (2.46%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (25.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 157 (24.12%) NIST
3 72 (11.06%) GDPR
4 50 (7.68%) NCSC
5 33 (5.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 31 (4.76%) PCI DSS
7 17 (2.61%) GRC
8 15 (2.30%) SLA
9 14 (2.15%) PMO
10 13 (2.00%) NIST 800
10 13 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (1.69%) HIPAA
13 9 (1.38%) ISO 31000
14 8 (1.23%) QA
14 8 (1.23%) SOC 2
15 7 (1.08%) COBIT
16 5 (0.77%) Data Quality
17 2 (0.31%) ISA99
17 2 (0.31%) JSP 440
System Software
1 126 (19.35%) Active Directory
2 34 (5.22%) Docker
3 31 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.92%) VMware NSX
5 18 (2.76%) vSphere
6 13 (2.00%) Hyper-V
7 11 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.61%) Squid
10 2 (0.31%) Snort
10 2 (0.31%) 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 60 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 56 (8.60%) Ansible
3 30 (4.61%) QRadar
4 24 (3.69%) CASB
5 19 (2.92%) Progress Chef
6 14 (2.15%) VxRail
7 12 (1.84%) Grafana
8 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.23%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.92%) Check_MK
10 6 (0.92%) Puppet
11 5 (0.77%) Istio
11 5 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.77%) linkerd
12 4 (0.61%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.61%) Packer
12 4 (0.61%) Podman
13 3 (0.46%) Nessus
13 3 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 180 (27.65%) Microsoft
2 107 (16.44%) Splunk
3 77 (11.83%) CyberArk
4 48 (7.37%) ServiceNow
5 44 (6.76%) CrowdStrike
6 36 (5.53%) VMware
7 33 (5.07%) Google
8 30 (4.61%) BeyondTrust
8 30 (4.61%) Zscaler
9 26 (3.99%) Cisco
10 21 (3.23%) Oracle
10 21 (3.23%) Palo Alto
11 20 (3.07%) Red Hat
11 20 (3.07%) Tanium
12 19 (2.92%) Fortinet
13 16 (2.46%) Qualys
14 15 (2.30%) Tenable
15 13 (2.00%) Cribl.io
16 11 (1.69%) ArcSight
16 11 (1.69%) Trend Micro