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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 162 172
Rank change year-on-year -37 +10 -14
Contract jobs citing SIEM 657 459 478
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.44% 1.67% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.83% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 293 336
10th Percentile £413 £403 £444
25th Percentile £466 £465 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £637 £663 £713
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £567 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +3.09% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 12 5
10th Percentile £45.27 £45.08 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £72.84 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +7.91% -12.90%
75th Percentile £83.75 £85.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £98.82 £98.50 £77.30
UK median hourly rate £69.25 £72.84 £67.50
% change year-on-year -4.93% +7.91% -12.90%

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 38,779 25,035 28,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.92% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,017 15,949 18,476
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,455 1,574
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.92 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -1.22%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -36 239 £563 -6.25% 87
South East -6 171 £567 +10.90% 104
North of England -10 116 £565 +6.35% 63
North West +12 88 £564 +20.91% 34
South West -1 67 £640 -3.40% 60
Yorkshire -26 28 £575 +6.98% 17
East of England -37 24 £550 - 27
Midlands -76 24 £525 +3.45% 23
West Midlands -76 21 £525 +1.94% 19
East Midlands -19 2 £550 +18.92% 4
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 13 (1.98%) Confluence
2 2 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.15%) Apache
3 1 (0.15%) Mendix
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.15%) nginx
3 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
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 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 246 (37.44%) Azure
2 194 (29.53%) AWS
3 99 (15.07%) GCP
4 92 (14.00%) Entra ID
5 64 (9.74%) Azure Sentinel
6 53 (8.07%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (5.48%) Microsoft Purview
8 32 (4.87%) SaaS
9 23 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (3.04%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (2.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 16 (2.44%) GitHub
15 15 (2.28%) Datadog
16 14 (2.13%) AWS CloudTrail
16 14 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (1.83%) Serverless
19 11 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 117 (17.81%) Firewall
2 97 (14.76%) Network Security
3 52 (7.91%) DNS
4 45 (6.85%) TCP/IP
5 26 (3.96%) DHCP
6 25 (3.81%) WAN
7 24 (3.65%) SSL
8 23 (3.50%) Intrusion Detection
9 21 (3.20%) VSAN
10 20 (3.04%) VPN
11 19 (2.89%) HTTP
12 14 (2.13%) Internet
13 13 (1.98%) BGP
13 13 (1.98%) SD-WAN
14 10 (1.52%) VLAN
15 8 (1.22%) OSPF
16 7 (1.07%) Cisco Firepower
16 7 (1.07%) SNMP
17 6 (0.91%) NGFW
18 5 (0.76%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.20%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (0.76%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.76%) Hazelcast
4 4 (0.61%) Power BI
5 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.30%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
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 22 (3.35%) JIRA
2 14 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.98%) Git
4 11 (1.67%) GitLab
5 5 (0.76%) Selenium
6 3 (0.46%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.30%) MSI
7 2 (0.30%) Snyk
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 200 (30.44%) Social Skills
2 92 (14.00%) Finance
3 91 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (11.57%) Public Sector
5 57 (8.68%) Documentation Skills
6 33 (5.02%) Banking
7 19 (2.89%) Military
8 12 (1.83%) Retail
9 11 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.52%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.52%) Local Government
11 8 (1.22%) Law
11 8 (1.22%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.07%) Legal
13 6 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.61%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.46%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.46%) Digital Healthcare
16 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (18.87%) Analyst
2 109 (16.59%) Security Engineer
3 62 (9.44%) Senior
4 61 (9.28%) Security Analyst
5 60 (9.13%) Architect
6 58 (8.83%) SOC Analyst
7 46 (7.00%) Consultant
7 46 (7.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 39 (5.94%) Lead
9 32 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
10 31 (4.72%) Security Architect
11 28 (4.26%) SOC Engineer
12 26 (3.96%) Security Manager
13 23 (3.50%) Network Engineer
13 23 (3.50%) Operations Analyst
13 23 (3.50%) SIEM Engineer
14 22 (3.35%) Security Specialist
15 21 (3.20%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 21 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
16 20 (3.04%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (13.85%) Terraform
2 31 (4.72%) LDAP
3 19 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (2.13%) SailPoint
5 12 (1.83%) REST
6 11 (1.67%) Kafka
7 9 (1.37%) ARM Templates
8 8 (1.22%) 802.1X
9 7 (1.07%) Azure Blueprints
10 5 (0.76%) eBPF
10 5 (0.76%) LangChain
10 5 (0.76%) OAuth
10 5 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.76%) PyTorch
10 5 (0.76%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.61%) CSS
11 4 (0.61%) FIDO
11 4 (0.61%) JSON
11 4 (0.61%) SAML
11 4 (0.61%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 97 (14.76%) Security Posture
2 92 (14.00%) Onboarding
3 70 (10.65%) Security Operations Centre
4 63 (9.59%) Cloud Native
4 63 (9.59%) Cyber Threat
5 44 (6.70%) Operational Technology
6 41 (6.24%) Management Information System
7 35 (5.33%) Cyber Defence
8 30 (4.57%) Cloud Security Posture
9 27 (4.11%) Data Centre
10 26 (3.96%) PKI
11 19 (2.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 14 (2.13%) CSOC
13 13 (1.98%) CMDB
13 13 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.67%) SCADA
15 9 (1.37%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.37%) Replication
16 7 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 148 (22.53%) Windows
2 145 (22.07%) Linux
3 39 (5.94%) Unix
4 30 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (3.96%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.07%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (53.88%) Cybersecurity
2 225 (34.25%) Incident Response
3 206 (31.35%) Security Operations
4 156 (23.74%) Cloud Security
5 128 (19.48%) Security Monitoring
6 127 (19.33%) CI/CD
7 126 (19.18%) Threat Detection
8 115 (17.50%) Vulnerability Management
9 105 (15.98%) SOAR
10 101 (15.37%) Threat Intelligence
11 94 (14.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 93 (14.16%) DevOps
13 91 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 88 (13.39%) Zero Trust
15 86 (13.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 84 (12.79%) Infrastructure as Code
16 84 (12.79%) Security Architecture
17 83 (12.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 82 (12.48%) DevSecOps
19 80 (12.18%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 152 (23.14%) Python
2 138 (21.00%) PowerShell
3 85 (12.94%) Bash
4 43 (6.54%) Kusto Query Language
5 23 (3.50%) SQL
6 20 (3.04%) Bicep
6 20 (3.04%) Java
7 18 (2.74%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (1.07%) Perl
9 3 (0.46%) Groovy
10 2 (0.30%) C
10 2 (0.30%) Go
10 2 (0.30%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 279 (42.47%) Security Cleared
2 171 (26.03%) SC Cleared
3 148 (22.53%) CISSP
4 104 (15.83%) DV Cleared
5 88 (13.39%) CISM
6 64 (9.74%) Cisco Certification
7 62 (9.44%) Degree
8 46 (7.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 37 (5.63%) AWS Certification
10 29 (4.41%) GIAC
11 28 (4.26%) Azure Certification
11 28 (4.26%) CompTIA Security+
12 24 (3.65%) GCIH
13 22 (3.35%) CEH
14 20 (3.04%) CCSP
15 18 (2.74%) CompTIA CySA+
16 17 (2.59%) CCNP
17 16 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
17 16 (2.44%) GSEC
17 16 (2.44%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (24.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 154 (23.44%) NIST
3 71 (10.81%) GDPR
4 50 (7.61%) NCSC
5 33 (5.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 30 (4.57%) PCI DSS
7 17 (2.59%) GRC
8 15 (2.28%) SLA
9 14 (2.13%) PMO
10 13 (1.98%) NIST 800
10 13 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 12 (1.83%) HIPAA
12 9 (1.37%) ISO 31000
12 9 (1.37%) SOC 2
13 8 (1.22%) QA
14 7 (1.07%) COBIT
15 5 (0.76%) Data Quality
16 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 2 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 124 (18.87%) Active Directory
2 38 (5.78%) Docker
3 31 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.89%) VMware NSX
5 18 (2.74%) vSphere
6 13 (1.98%) Hyper-V
7 11 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.61%) Squid
10 2 (0.30%) Snort
10 2 (0.30%) 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 63 (9.59%) Kubernetes
2 57 (8.68%) Ansible
3 30 (4.57%) QRadar
4 25 (3.81%) CASB
5 20 (3.04%) Progress Chef
6 14 (2.13%) VxRail
7 12 (1.83%) Grafana
8 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (1.22%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.91%) Check_MK
9 6 (0.91%) Puppet
10 5 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.61%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.61%) Istio
11 4 (0.61%) linkerd
11 4 (0.61%) Packer
11 4 (0.61%) Podman
12 3 (0.46%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.46%) Suricata
Vendors
1 182 (27.70%) Microsoft
2 106 (16.13%) Splunk
3 73 (11.11%) CyberArk
4 48 (7.31%) ServiceNow
5 41 (6.24%) CrowdStrike
6 36 (5.48%) Google
6 36 (5.48%) VMware
7 32 (4.87%) BeyondTrust
8 31 (4.72%) Zscaler
9 27 (4.11%) Cisco
10 22 (3.35%) Red Hat
11 21 (3.20%) Oracle
12 20 (3.04%) Fortinet
12 20 (3.04%) Palo Alto
12 20 (3.04%) Tanium
13 16 (2.44%) Qualys
13 16 (2.44%) Tenable
14 13 (1.98%) Cribl.io
15 11 (1.67%) ArcSight
15 11 (1.67%) Trend Micro