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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 181 157
Rank change year-on-year +9 -24 +9
Contract jobs citing SIEM 628 360 566
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.52% 1.50% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.64% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 240 403
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 £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £570 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% -
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 £53.75 £80.68 £40.00
% change year-on-year -33.37% +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 35,064 21,889 31,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.71% 91.30% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,297 14,308 20,582
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £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 2,170 926 2,283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.35 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.39 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.28 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £27.59 £36.05
% change year-on-year +52.71% -23.47% -0.22%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -11 233 £588 -3.09% 104
South East +13 167 £525 +5.00% 114
North of England -22 85 £558 -3.88% 71
North West +14 70 £560 +6.67% 34
Midlands -61 47 £545 - 28
South West +8 46 £600 +9.09% 55
West Midlands -66 41 £550 +0.92% 24
East of England -39 26 £550 - 39
Yorkshire -63 13 £540 -10.00% 26
East Midlands -19 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 (2.87%) Confluence
2 6 (0.96%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.32%) 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 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.80%) Maximo
1 5 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 243 (38.69%) Azure
2 177 (28.18%) AWS
3 106 (16.88%) GCP
4 80 (12.74%) Entra ID
5 65 (10.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 47 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (3.82%) OpenShift
8 23 (3.66%) Microsoft Purview
9 21 (3.34%) SaaS
10 19 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (2.23%) PaaS
14 12 (1.91%) IaaS
15 11 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (1.75%) Datadog
16 10 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.59%) GitHub
17 9 (1.43%) Serverless
18 8 (1.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 94 (14.97%) Network Security
2 90 (14.33%) Firewall
3 44 (7.01%) DNS
4 35 (5.57%) VPN
5 33 (5.25%) TCP/IP
6 23 (3.66%) SSL
7 14 (2.23%) Intrusion Detection
8 13 (2.07%) DHCP
8 13 (2.07%) HTTP
8 13 (2.07%) VLAN
8 13 (2.07%) WAN
9 11 (1.75%) SD-WAN
10 10 (1.59%) BGP
10 10 (1.59%) IPsec
11 9 (1.43%) OSPF
12 7 (1.11%) Internet
12 7 (1.11%) MPLS
12 7 (1.11%) NGFW
12 7 (1.11%) SNMP
12 7 (1.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.34%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.64%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.32%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.32%) Power BI
6 2 (0.32%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.32%) 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 (4.30%) JIRA
2 14 (2.23%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.43%) Git
4 7 (1.11%) Snyk
5 3 (0.48%) 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
1 188 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 78 (12.42%) Finance
3 76 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (10.51%) Public Sector
5 60 (9.55%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (3.50%) Banking
7 17 (2.71%) Military
8 15 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.27%) Retail
10 7 (1.11%) Legal
11 6 (0.96%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.96%) Local Government
12 4 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.64%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.48%) Law
14 2 (0.32%) Advertising
14 2 (0.32%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.16%) Back Office
15 1 (0.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 124 (19.75%) Architect
2 113 (17.99%) Analyst
3 109 (17.36%) Security Engineer
4 55 (8.76%) SOC Analyst
5 54 (8.60%) Senior
6 53 (8.44%) CyberArk Architect
7 40 (6.37%) SIEM Engineer
8 39 (6.21%) Security Analyst
9 37 (5.89%) Security Architect
10 33 (5.25%) Consultant
11 31 (4.94%) Lead
12 25 (3.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 22 (3.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 21 (3.34%) Security Manager
15 20 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
15 20 (3.18%) SOC Engineer
16 19 (3.03%) Security Specialist
17 18 (2.87%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 17 (2.71%) Cybersecurity Specialist
19 15 (2.39%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (11.62%) LDAP
2 47 (7.48%) REST
3 39 (6.21%) Elastic Stack
4 35 (5.57%) SOAP
5 20 (3.18%) OpenID
5 20 (3.18%) SAML
6 11 (1.75%) SailPoint
7 10 (1.59%) 802.1X
8 9 (1.43%) Kafka
9 7 (1.11%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.11%) OAuth
10 6 (0.96%) LangChain
10 6 (0.96%) OAuth2
10 6 (0.96%) PyTorch
10 6 (0.96%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.80%) eBPF
11 5 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.64%) ADO
12 4 (0.64%) JSON
12 4 (0.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 97 (15.45%) Security Posture
2 82 (13.06%) Onboarding
3 64 (10.19%) Security Operations Centre
4 60 (9.55%) Cloud Native
5 52 (8.28%) Cyber Threat
6 44 (7.01%) Operational Technology
7 41 (6.53%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (5.10%) Management Information System
9 19 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
10 18 (2.87%) Cyberattack
11 17 (2.71%) Cyber Defence
12 16 (2.55%) CSOC
13 13 (2.07%) Data Centre
13 13 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (2.07%) PKI
13 13 (2.07%) SCADA
14 11 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.75%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 9 (1.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 119 (18.95%) Windows
2 117 (18.63%) Linux
3 33 (5.25%) Unix
4 29 (4.62%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.48%) 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
1 301 (47.93%) Cybersecurity
2 190 (30.25%) Incident Response
3 188 (29.94%) Security Operations
4 116 (18.47%) Cloud Security
5 114 (18.15%) Threat Detection
6 111 (17.68%) CI/CD
7 109 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
8 105 (16.72%) DevOps
9 98 (15.61%) SOAR
10 93 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 91 (14.49%) Vulnerability Management
12 90 (14.33%) ITSM
13 86 (13.69%) Security Architecture
14 83 (13.22%) Zero Trust
15 72 (11.46%) Privileged Access Management
16 70 (11.15%) Security Monitoring
17 67 (10.67%) Threat Intelligence
18 65 (10.35%) MITRE ATT&CK
19 64 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
20 63 (10.03%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 177 (28.18%) Python
2 160 (25.48%) PowerShell
3 48 (7.64%) Kusto Query Language
4 42 (6.69%) Bash
5 15 (2.39%) Bicep
6 13 (2.07%) SQL
7 12 (1.91%) Search Processing Language
8 6 (0.96%) Java
9 2 (0.32%) Groovy
9 2 (0.32%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.16%) Lisp
10 1 (0.16%) Perl
10 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 294 (46.82%) Security Cleared
2 219 (34.87%) SC Cleared
3 124 (19.75%) CISSP
4 75 (11.94%) CISM
5 73 (11.62%) DV Cleared
6 50 (7.96%) Cisco Certification
6 50 (7.96%) Degree
7 35 (5.57%) GIAC
8 33 (5.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 24 (3.82%) CEH
9 24 (3.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 21 (3.34%) Azure Certification
11 17 (2.71%) CCSP
12 15 (2.39%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.39%) CCNP
12 15 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (2.07%) GCIH
13 13 (2.07%) SANS
14 12 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (1.75%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (24.20%) NIST
2 141 (22.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (10.19%) GDPR
4 34 (5.41%) NCSC
5 26 (4.14%) PCI DSS
6 24 (3.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (2.23%) NIST 800
8 13 (2.07%) HIPAA
8 13 (2.07%) SOC 2
9 12 (1.91%) SLA
10 10 (1.59%) PMO
10 10 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (1.43%) GRC
11 9 (1.43%) ISO 31000
12 8 (1.27%) QA
13 6 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.80%) COBIT
14 5 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 124 (19.75%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.23%) Docker
4 7 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.11%) Snort
4 7 (1.11%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.80%) Squid
7 3 (0.48%) vSphere
8 2 (0.32%) NFS
8 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.16%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 60 (9.55%) Kubernetes
2 59 (9.39%) Terraform
3 29 (4.62%) Ansible
4 23 (3.66%) QRadar
5 20 (3.18%) Kibana
6 18 (2.87%) CASB
7 12 (1.91%) logstash
7 12 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.43%) Grafana
9 8 (1.27%) Nessus
10 5 (0.80%) CSIRT
10 5 (0.80%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.80%) SCCM
10 5 (0.80%) WSUS
11 4 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.64%) Suricata
12 2 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.32%) Icinga
12 2 (0.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 157 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 121 (19.27%) Splunk
3 105 (16.72%) CyberArk
4 71 (11.31%) BeyondTrust
5 36 (5.73%) Centrify
5 36 (5.73%) Cisco
6 34 (5.41%) ServiceNow
7 32 (5.10%) CrowdStrike
8 30 (4.78%) Qualys
9 24 (3.82%) Tanium
9 24 (3.82%) Zscaler
10 21 (3.34%) Palo Alto
10 21 (3.34%) Tenable
10 21 (3.34%) VMware
11 19 (3.03%) Fortinet
12 16 (2.55%) LogRhythm
13 15 (2.39%) Google
14 13 (2.07%) Oracle
15 12 (1.91%) IBM
16 11 (1.75%) Okta