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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 182 151
Rank change year-on-year +5 -31 +10
Contract jobs citing SIEM 635 360 577
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.53% 1.51% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.65% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 241 411
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £485 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £651 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £570 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +3.64% -6.38% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 3 6
10th Percentile £37.72 £52.67 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £63.04 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £80.68 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.92% +101.69% -46.67%
75th Percentile £70.15 £81.01 £63.44
90th Percentile £83.75 - £74.63
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £80.68 £40.00
% change year-on-year -31.83% +101.69% -46.67%

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 35,196 21,756 31,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 91.30% 86.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,391 14,220 20,552
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,171 917 2,255
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.41 £12.89
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.20 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £60.13
90th Percentile £80.20 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.98% -22.42% -2.58%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -11 240 £588 -3.09% 104
South East +4 168 £525 +3.96% 110
North of England -17 85 £558 -3.88% 74
North West +19 70 £560 +6.67% 35
Midlands -69 47 £545 - 32
South West +4 45 £600 +9.09% 58
West Midlands -66 41 £550 +0.92% 28
East of England -38 26 £550 - 40
Yorkshire -63 13 £540 -10.00% 28
East Midlands - 6 £438 - 4
North East - 2 £400 - 11
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 18 (2.83%) Confluence
2 6 (0.94%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.16%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.16%) nginx
4 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.79%) Maximo
1 5 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 244 (38.43%) Azure
2 180 (28.35%) AWS
3 106 (16.69%) GCP
4 80 (12.60%) Entra ID
5 66 (10.39%) Azure Sentinel
6 47 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (3.78%) Microsoft Purview
7 24 (3.78%) OpenShift
8 21 (3.31%) SaaS
9 20 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.83%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (2.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (2.20%) PaaS
13 12 (1.89%) IaaS
14 11 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (1.73%) Datadog
15 10 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.57%) GitHub
16 9 (1.42%) Serverless
17 8 (1.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 95 (14.96%) Network Security
2 92 (14.49%) Firewall
3 44 (6.93%) DNS
4 35 (5.51%) VPN
5 33 (5.20%) TCP/IP
6 23 (3.62%) SSL
7 14 (2.20%) Intrusion Detection
8 13 (2.05%) DHCP
8 13 (2.05%) HTTP
9 12 (1.89%) VLAN
9 12 (1.89%) WAN
10 10 (1.57%) SD-WAN
11 9 (1.42%) BGP
11 9 (1.42%) IPsec
12 8 (1.26%) OSPF
13 7 (1.10%) Internet
13 7 (1.10%) NGFW
13 7 (1.10%) SNMP
13 7 (1.10%) SSH
14 6 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.31%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.63%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.31%) Power BI
6 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.16%) Metadata
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (4.25%) JIRA
2 14 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.42%) Git
4 7 (1.10%) Snyk
5 3 (0.47%) GitLab
6 1 (0.16%) AppScan
6 1 (0.16%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.16%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.16%) JUnit
6 1 (0.16%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 191 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 79 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
2 79 (12.44%) Finance
3 67 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.45%) Documentation Skills
5 22 (3.46%) Banking
6 18 (2.83%) Military
7 15 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.26%) Retail
9 7 (1.10%) Legal
10 6 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 6 (0.94%) Local Government
11 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.47%) Law
13 2 (0.31%) Advertising
13 2 (0.31%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.16%) Back Office
14 1 (0.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 123 (19.37%) Architect
2 117 (18.43%) Analyst
3 111 (17.48%) Security Engineer
4 56 (8.82%) Senior
5 55 (8.66%) SOC Analyst
6 53 (8.35%) CyberArk Architect
7 43 (6.77%) Security Analyst
8 40 (6.30%) SIEM Engineer
9 36 (5.67%) Security Architect
10 33 (5.20%) Consultant
11 32 (5.04%) Lead
12 28 (4.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 23 (3.62%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 22 (3.46%) Senior Analyst
15 21 (3.31%) Security Manager
16 20 (3.15%) SOC Engineer
17 19 (2.99%) Security Specialist
18 18 (2.83%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 17 (2.68%) Cybersecurity Specialist
20 15 (2.36%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (11.50%) LDAP
2 48 (7.56%) REST
3 40 (6.30%) Elastic Stack
4 35 (5.51%) SOAP
5 20 (3.15%) OpenID
5 20 (3.15%) SAML
6 11 (1.73%) SailPoint
7 10 (1.57%) 802.1X
8 9 (1.42%) Kafka
9 7 (1.10%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.10%) OAuth
10 6 (0.94%) LangChain
10 6 (0.94%) OAuth2
10 6 (0.94%) PyTorch
10 6 (0.94%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.79%) eBPF
11 5 (0.79%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.63%) ADO
12 4 (0.63%) JSON
12 4 (0.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 97 (15.28%) Security Posture
2 82 (12.91%) Onboarding
3 65 (10.24%) Security Operations Centre
4 60 (9.45%) Cloud Native
5 53 (8.35%) Cyber Threat
6 44 (6.93%) Operational Technology
7 41 (6.46%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (5.04%) Management Information System
9 20 (3.15%) Cyber Defence
10 19 (2.99%) Cloud Security Posture
11 18 (2.83%) Cyberattack
12 16 (2.52%) CSOC
13 13 (2.05%) Data Centre
13 13 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (2.05%) PKI
13 13 (2.05%) SCADA
14 11 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.73%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 9 (1.42%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 119 (18.74%) Windows
2 117 (18.43%) Linux
3 33 (5.20%) Unix
4 29 (4.57%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.16%) VMS
7 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (48.35%) Cybersecurity
2 194 (30.55%) Incident Response
3 190 (29.92%) Security Operations
4 117 (18.43%) Cloud Security
4 117 (18.43%) Threat Detection
5 112 (17.64%) CI/CD
5 112 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
6 106 (16.69%) DevOps
7 100 (15.75%) SOAR
8 93 (14.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 93 (14.65%) Vulnerability Management
9 90 (14.17%) ITSM
10 86 (13.54%) Security Architecture
11 83 (13.07%) Zero Trust
12 72 (11.34%) Privileged Access Management
12 72 (11.34%) Security Monitoring
13 70 (11.02%) Threat Intelligence
14 65 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 65 (10.24%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 64 (10.08%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 178 (28.03%) Python
2 161 (25.35%) PowerShell
3 48 (7.56%) Kusto Query Language
4 43 (6.77%) Bash
5 15 (2.36%) Bicep
6 13 (2.05%) SQL
7 12 (1.89%) Search Processing Language
8 6 (0.94%) Java
9 3 (0.47%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.31%) Groovy
10 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.16%) Lisp
11 1 (0.16%) Perl
11 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 297 (46.77%) Security Cleared
2 221 (34.80%) SC Cleared
3 125 (19.69%) CISSP
4 76 (11.97%) CISM
5 74 (11.65%) DV Cleared
6 51 (8.03%) Degree
7 50 (7.87%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (5.67%) GIAC
9 33 (5.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 25 (3.94%) CEH
10 25 (3.94%) CompTIA Security+
11 21 (3.31%) Azure Certification
12 17 (2.68%) CCSP
13 15 (2.36%) AWS Certification
13 15 (2.36%) CCNP
13 15 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (2.05%) GCIH
14 13 (2.05%) SANS
15 12 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (1.73%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (23.78%) NIST
2 141 (22.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (10.08%) GDPR
4 34 (5.35%) NCSC
5 26 (4.09%) PCI DSS
6 24 (3.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (2.05%) HIPAA
7 13 (2.05%) NIST 800
7 13 (2.05%) SLA
7 13 (2.05%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.57%) PMO
8 10 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.42%) GRC
9 9 (1.42%) ISO 31000
10 8 (1.26%) QA
11 6 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.79%) COBIT
12 5 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 124 (19.53%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.20%) Docker
4 7 (1.10%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.10%) Snort
4 7 (1.10%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.79%) Squid
7 3 (0.47%) vSphere
8 2 (0.31%) NFS
8 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.16%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 60 (9.45%) Kubernetes
1 60 (9.45%) Terraform
2 29 (4.57%) Ansible
3 22 (3.46%) QRadar
4 20 (3.15%) Kibana
5 18 (2.83%) CASB
6 12 (1.89%) logstash
6 12 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.42%) Grafana
8 8 (1.26%) Nessus
9 5 (0.79%) CSIRT
9 5 (0.79%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.79%) SCCM
9 5 (0.79%) WSUS
10 4 (0.63%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.47%) Icinga
11 3 (0.47%) Suricata
12 2 (0.31%) vRealize
12 2 (0.31%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 159 (25.04%) Microsoft
2 125 (19.69%) Splunk
3 105 (16.54%) CyberArk
4 71 (11.18%) BeyondTrust
5 36 (5.67%) Centrify
5 36 (5.67%) Cisco
6 34 (5.35%) ServiceNow
7 32 (5.04%) CrowdStrike
8 30 (4.72%) Qualys
9 24 (3.78%) Tanium
9 24 (3.78%) Zscaler
10 23 (3.62%) Tenable
11 21 (3.31%) Palo Alto
11 21 (3.31%) VMware
12 19 (2.99%) Fortinet
13 16 (2.52%) LogRhythm
14 15 (2.36%) Google
15 13 (2.05%) Oracle
16 12 (1.89%) IBM
17 11 (1.73%) Okta