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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 194 140
Rank change year-on-year +13 -54 +33
Contract jobs citing SIEM 596 332 617
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.36% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.50% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 215 447
10th Percentile £419 £409 £425
25th Percentile £475 £480 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -8.17% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £725
90th Percentile £750 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £558 £551 £600
% change year-on-year +1.18% -8.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 6
10th Percentile £30.69 £52.67 -
25th Percentile £42.88 £63.04 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.68 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.83% +101.69% -46.67%
75th Percentile £72.79 £81.01 £63.44
90th Percentile £83.00 - £74.63
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £80.68 £40.00
% change year-on-year -31.52% +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 34,270 22,183 32,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.18% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,910 14,537 21,121
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,134 920 2,242
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.75 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.35 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.95% -16.94% -6.17%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -3 215 £600 +2.35% 75
South East +15 158 £520 -0.95% 76
North of England -18 79 £558 -3.88% 64
North West +15 62 £568 +8.19% 25
Midlands -50 61 £540 -2.00% 21
West Midlands -48 54 £550 -0.18% 15
South West -4 34 £575 - 36
East of England -28 24 £550 -8.33% 37
Yorkshire -56 14 £540 -11.84% 23
East Midlands - 7 £442 - 6
North East - 3 £400 - 16
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 (2.52%) Confluence
2 9 (1.51%) OpenStack
3 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.17%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.17%) nginx
5 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Maximo
2 5 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 235 (39.43%) Azure
2 178 (29.87%) AWS
3 106 (17.79%) GCP
4 70 (11.74%) Azure Sentinel
5 62 (10.40%) Entra ID
6 46 (7.72%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (4.19%) OpenShift
8 24 (4.03%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
9 20 (3.36%) SaaS
10 17 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (2.52%) GitHub
12 15 (2.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (1.68%) Serverless
14 9 (1.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 9 (1.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 9 (1.51%) PaaS
15 8 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 97 (16.28%) Firewall
2 87 (14.60%) Network Security
3 41 (6.88%) DNS
4 34 (5.70%) TCP/IP
4 34 (5.70%) VPN
5 15 (2.52%) SSL
6 14 (2.35%) DHCP
7 10 (1.68%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (1.68%) SMTP
8 9 (1.51%) HTTP
9 8 (1.34%) Internet
9 8 (1.34%) IPsec
9 8 (1.34%) WAN
10 7 (1.17%) BGP
10 7 (1.17%) MPLS
10 7 (1.17%) NGFW
10 7 (1.17%) OSPF
10 7 (1.17%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.17%) SSH
11 6 (1.01%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.36%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.67%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.34%) Power BI
5 2 (0.34%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.34%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.17%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 30 (5.03%) JIRA
2 16 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.17%) Git
3 7 (1.17%) GitLab
3 7 (1.17%) Snyk
4 2 (0.34%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.34%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.17%) AppScan
5 1 (0.17%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.17%) JUnit
5 1 (0.17%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 183 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 75 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (12.42%) Finance
4 63 (10.57%) Documentation Skills
5 54 (9.06%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.02%) Banking
7 15 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.68%) Military
9 9 (1.51%) Retail
10 8 (1.34%) Legal
11 7 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.67%) Local Government
12 4 (0.67%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.34%) Law
14 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.17%) Advertising
15 1 (0.17%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.17%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 122 (20.47%) Architect
2 103 (17.28%) Security Engineer
3 98 (16.44%) Analyst
4 58 (9.73%) Senior
5 51 (8.56%) CyberArk Architect
5 51 (8.56%) SIEM Engineer
6 45 (7.55%) SOC Analyst
7 37 (6.21%) Security Architect
8 31 (5.20%) Consultant
9 29 (4.87%) Security Analyst
10 28 (4.70%) Lead
11 21 (3.52%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 21 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
12 20 (3.36%) Security Manager
13 17 (2.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 15 (2.52%) SOC Engineer
15 13 (2.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (2.18%) Project Manager
16 12 (2.01%) Cloud Engineer
16 12 (2.01%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (13.26%) LDAP
2 50 (8.39%) REST
3 40 (6.71%) Elastic Stack
4 36 (6.04%) SOAP
5 22 (3.69%) OpenID
5 22 (3.69%) SAML
6 11 (1.85%) Kafka
7 9 (1.51%) 802.1X
7 9 (1.51%) OAuth
8 8 (1.34%) SailPoint
9 7 (1.17%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.17%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.01%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.01%) LangChain
10 6 (1.01%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.84%) eBPF
11 5 (0.84%) JSON
11 5 (0.84%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.67%) ADO
12 4 (0.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 96 (16.11%) Security Posture
2 76 (12.75%) Onboarding
3 57 (9.56%) Cloud Native
4 52 (8.72%) Security Operations Centre
5 42 (7.05%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (6.21%) Cyber Threat
7 34 (5.70%) Operational Technology
8 31 (5.20%) Management Information System
9 18 (3.02%) Cloud Security Posture
10 17 (2.85%) Cyberattack
11 16 (2.68%) Cyber Defence
12 15 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (2.52%) PKI
12 15 (2.52%) Product Ownership
13 13 (2.18%) Cyber Security Posture
14 12 (2.01%) CSOC
14 12 (2.01%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.68%) SCADA
16 8 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
17 6 (1.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 111 (18.62%) Linux
2 110 (18.46%) Windows
3 28 (4.70%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.03%) Unix
5 20 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.67%) CentOS
8 3 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.17%) VMS
10 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (44.30%) Cybersecurity
2 172 (28.86%) Incident Response
3 168 (28.19%) Security Operations
4 118 (19.80%) Threat Detection
5 115 (19.30%) CI/CD
5 115 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
6 105 (17.62%) DevOps
7 103 (17.28%) SOAR
8 101 (16.95%) Cloud Security
9 89 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 79 (13.26%) Vulnerability Management
11 77 (12.92%) ITSM
12 74 (12.42%) Privileged Access Management
13 73 (12.25%) Zero Trust
14 70 (11.74%) Security Architecture
15 67 (11.24%) DevSecOps
16 62 (10.40%) Threat Modelling
17 60 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
18 58 (9.73%) Technical Leadership
19 56 (9.40%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 201 (33.72%) Python
2 175 (29.36%) PowerShell
3 55 (9.23%) Kusto Query Language
4 45 (7.55%) Bash
5 15 (2.52%) Bicep
6 13 (2.18%) SQL
7 9 (1.51%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.17%) Java
9 5 (0.84%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (0.67%) Go
11 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.17%) C
12 1 (0.17%) Groovy
12 1 (0.17%) Lisp
12 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 263 (44.13%) Security Cleared
2 204 (34.23%) SC Cleared
3 122 (20.47%) CISSP
4 72 (12.08%) CISM
5 62 (10.40%) DV Cleared
6 42 (7.05%) Degree
7 39 (6.54%) Cisco Certification
8 35 (5.87%) GIAC
9 31 (5.20%) CEH
10 24 (4.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 24 (4.03%) CompTIA Security+
11 22 (3.69%) Azure Certification
12 17 (2.85%) AWS Certification
13 14 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (2.18%) CCNP
14 13 (2.18%) CCSP
15 12 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
17 9 (1.51%) GCIH
18 8 (1.34%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (22.65%) NIST
2 129 (21.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 62 (10.40%) GDPR
4 28 (4.70%) NCSC
4 28 (4.70%) PCI DSS
5 18 (3.02%) NIST 800
6 13 (2.18%) HIPAA
6 13 (2.18%) SOC 2
7 11 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (1.34%) GRC
9 6 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (1.01%) PMO
9 6 (1.01%) SLA
10 5 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.84%) COBIT
11 4 (0.67%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.67%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.50%) RMADS
System Software
1 123 (20.64%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.86%) Docker
3 15 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.51%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.51%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.17%) Snort
6 4 (0.67%) Postfix
6 4 (0.67%) Squid
6 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.34%) NFS
7 2 (0.34%) vSphere
8 1 (0.17%) GPFS
8 1 (0.17%) Lustre
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 72 (12.08%) Kubernetes
2 65 (10.91%) Terraform
3 32 (5.37%) Ansible
4 25 (4.19%) Kibana
5 20 (3.36%) QRadar
6 18 (3.02%) CASB
7 15 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (2.35%) logstash
9 13 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.68%) Grafana
11 8 (1.34%) Nessus
12 6 (1.01%) SCCM
12 6 (1.01%) WSUS
13 5 (0.84%) CSIRT
13 5 (0.84%) Prometheus
14 4 (0.67%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.50%) Argo
15 3 (0.50%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.50%) Icinga
15 3 (0.50%) Suricata
Vendors
1 161 (27.01%) Microsoft
2 121 (20.30%) Splunk
3 102 (17.11%) CyberArk
4 75 (12.58%) BeyondTrust
5 36 (6.04%) Centrify
6 33 (5.54%) ServiceNow
7 32 (5.37%) Cisco
8 30 (5.03%) Qualys
9 29 (4.87%) Tanium
10 26 (4.36%) Tenable
11 24 (4.03%) Zscaler
12 23 (3.86%) VMware
13 20 (3.36%) CrowdStrike
14 17 (2.85%) Fortinet
14 17 (2.85%) Palo Alto
15 15 (2.52%) Google
15 15 (2.52%) LogRhythm
16 14 (2.35%) Oracle
17 13 (2.18%) FireEye
18 12 (2.01%) Okta