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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 191 139
Rank change year-on-year +10 -52 +30
Contract jobs citing SIEM 614 339 617
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.51% 1.39% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.52% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 218 447
10th Percentile £420 £411 £425
25th Percentile £481 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -8.17% -
75th Percentile £653 £650 £738
90th Percentile £750 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £561 £551 £600
% change year-on-year +1.86% -8.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 3 6
10th Percentile £34.91 £52.67 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £63.04 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £80.68 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.37% +101.69% -46.67%
75th Percentile £73.90 £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 34,426 22,233 31,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.84% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,983 14,556 20,949
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,140 928 2,245
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.65 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £35.83
% change year-on-year +44.62% -19.06% -0.47%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +3 228 £600 +2.13% 100
South East +15 166 £523 -0.48% 104
North of England 0 81 £551 -4.96% 77
North West +18 63 £574 +9.24% 35
Midlands -56 58 £540 -2.00% 30
West Midlands -49 52 £550 -0.18% 19
South West -14 32 £575 +4.55% 49
East of England -34 25 £550 -8.33% 47
Yorkshire -45 15 £540 -11.84% 25
East Midlands - 6 £438 - 11
North East - 3 £400 - 17
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 (2.44%) Confluence
2 9 (1.47%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.16%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.16%) nginx
5 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Maximo
2 5 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 249 (40.55%) Azure
2 183 (29.80%) AWS
3 113 (18.40%) GCP
4 69 (11.24%) Azure Sentinel
5 67 (10.91%) Entra ID
6 50 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (4.07%) OpenShift
8 23 (3.75%) SaaS
9 22 (3.58%) Microsoft Purview
10 20 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (2.44%) GitHub
12 15 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (2.28%) PaaS
14 12 (1.95%) IaaS
15 9 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (1.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 9 (1.47%) Serverless
16 8 (1.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 99 (16.12%) Firewall
2 90 (14.66%) Network Security
3 41 (6.68%) DNS
4 37 (6.03%) VPN
5 34 (5.54%) TCP/IP
6 17 (2.77%) SSL
7 14 (2.28%) DHCP
8 11 (1.79%) WAN
9 10 (1.63%) Intrusion Detection
9 10 (1.63%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.63%) SMTP
10 9 (1.47%) HTTP
11 8 (1.30%) Internet
11 8 (1.30%) IPsec
12 7 (1.14%) BGP
12 7 (1.14%) MPLS
12 7 (1.14%) NGFW
12 7 (1.14%) OSPF
12 7 (1.14%) SSH
13 6 (0.98%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.42%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.65%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.33%) Power BI
5 2 (0.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.16%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 30 (4.89%) JIRA
2 16 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.30%) Git
4 7 (1.14%) GitLab
4 7 (1.14%) Snyk
5 2 (0.33%) CircleCI
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
1 189 (30.78%) Social Skills
2 79 (12.87%) Finance
3 71 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (11.07%) Documentation Skills
5 55 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 21 (3.42%) Banking
7 15 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.79%) Military
9 10 (1.63%) Retail
10 8 (1.30%) Legal
11 7 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.65%) Local Government
13 4 (0.65%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.49%) Law
14 3 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.33%) Advertising
16 1 (0.16%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.16%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 124 (20.20%) Architect
2 109 (17.75%) Security Engineer
3 97 (15.80%) Analyst
4 58 (9.45%) Senior
5 52 (8.47%) CyberArk Architect
6 48 (7.82%) SIEM Engineer
7 45 (7.33%) SOC Analyst
8 37 (6.03%) Security Architect
9 30 (4.89%) Lead
9 30 (4.89%) Security Analyst
10 28 (4.56%) Consultant
11 25 (4.07%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 22 (3.58%) Security Manager
13 21 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
14 17 (2.77%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 17 (2.77%) SOC Engineer
15 14 (2.28%) Security Specialist
16 13 (2.12%) Cloud Engineer
16 13 (2.12%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 13 (2.12%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (13.68%) LDAP
2 50 (8.14%) REST
3 41 (6.68%) Elastic Stack
4 36 (5.86%) SOAP
5 21 (3.42%) OpenID
5 21 (3.42%) SAML
6 13 (2.12%) Kafka
7 10 (1.63%) SailPoint
8 9 (1.47%) 802.1X
9 8 (1.30%) OAuth
10 7 (1.14%) PyTorch
11 6 (0.98%) ARM Templates
11 6 (0.98%) JSON
11 6 (0.98%) LangChain
11 6 (0.98%) OAuth2
11 6 (0.98%) scikit-learn
12 5 (0.81%) eBPF
12 5 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (0.65%) ADO
13 4 (0.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 91 (14.82%) Security Posture
2 81 (13.19%) Onboarding
3 59 (9.61%) Cloud Native
4 55 (8.96%) Security Operations Centre
5 42 (6.84%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (6.35%) Cyber Threat
6 39 (6.35%) Operational Technology
7 32 (5.21%) Management Information System
8 19 (3.09%) Cyber Defence
9 18 (2.93%) Cloud Security Posture
10 17 (2.77%) Cyberattack
11 15 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (2.44%) PKI
11 15 (2.44%) Product Ownership
11 15 (2.44%) SCADA
12 13 (2.12%) Data Centre
13 12 (1.95%) CSOC
14 10 (1.63%) Cyber Security Posture
15 8 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (1.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 120 (19.54%) Linux
2 119 (19.38%) Windows
3 30 (4.89%) Unix
4 27 (4.40%) Windows Server
5 20 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.65%) CentOS
8 3 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.16%) VMS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (45.11%) Cybersecurity
2 173 (28.18%) Incident Response
3 171 (27.85%) Security Operations
4 126 (20.52%) CI/CD
5 116 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
5 116 (18.89%) Threat Detection
6 113 (18.40%) DevOps
7 105 (17.10%) Cloud Security
8 103 (16.78%) SOAR
9 94 (15.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 85 (13.84%) Vulnerability Management
11 82 (13.36%) ITSM
12 80 (13.03%) Security Architecture
13 77 (12.54%) Zero Trust
14 74 (12.05%) Privileged Access Management
15 73 (11.89%) DevSecOps
16 64 (10.42%) Threat Modelling
17 63 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
18 61 (9.93%) Data Loss Prevention
19 57 (9.28%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 207 (33.71%) Python
2 179 (29.15%) PowerShell
3 50 (8.14%) Kusto Query Language
4 49 (7.98%) Bash
5 15 (2.44%) Bicep
6 13 (2.12%) SQL
7 7 (1.14%) Java
7 7 (1.14%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.14%) Search Processing Language
8 4 (0.65%) Go
9 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.16%) Groovy
10 1 (0.16%) Lisp
10 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 275 (44.79%) Security Cleared
2 213 (34.69%) SC Cleared
3 131 (21.34%) CISSP
4 81 (13.19%) CISM
5 62 (10.10%) DV Cleared
6 46 (7.49%) Cisco Certification
7 44 (7.17%) Degree
8 37 (6.03%) GIAC
9 30 (4.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 29 (4.72%) CEH
11 25 (4.07%) CompTIA Security+
12 22 (3.58%) Azure Certification
13 17 (2.77%) AWS Certification
14 15 (2.44%) CCSP
15 14 (2.28%) CCNP
15 14 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
16 12 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (1.95%) SSCP
17 10 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
17 10 (1.63%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (23.62%) NIST
2 139 (22.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (10.42%) GDPR
4 28 (4.56%) NCSC
4 28 (4.56%) PCI DSS
5 19 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
6 17 (2.77%) NIST 800
7 13 (2.12%) HIPAA
7 13 (2.12%) SOC 2
8 11 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (1.30%) GRC
9 8 (1.30%) PMO
10 7 (1.14%) SLA
11 6 (0.98%) ISO 31000
11 6 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.81%) COBIT
13 4 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.65%) Data Quality
13 4 (0.65%) JSP 440
System Software
1 131 (21.34%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.75%) Docker
3 16 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.47%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.47%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.14%) Snort
7 5 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.65%) Postfix
8 4 (0.65%) Squid
9 2 (0.33%) NFS
9 2 (0.33%) vSphere
10 1 (0.16%) GPFS
10 1 (0.16%) Lustre
10 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 72 (11.73%) Kubernetes
2 68 (11.07%) Terraform
3 33 (5.37%) Ansible
4 22 (3.58%) Kibana
5 21 (3.42%) QRadar
6 18 (2.93%) CASB
7 15 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (2.28%) logstash
9 12 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.63%) Grafana
11 8 (1.30%) Nessus
12 5 (0.81%) CSIRT
12 5 (0.81%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.81%) SCCM
12 5 (0.81%) WSUS
13 4 (0.65%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.49%) Argo
14 3 (0.49%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.49%) Icinga
14 3 (0.49%) Suricata
Vendors
1 161 (26.22%) Microsoft
2 123 (20.03%) Splunk
3 108 (17.59%) CyberArk
4 79 (12.87%) BeyondTrust
5 36 (5.86%) Centrify
6 34 (5.54%) Cisco
7 33 (5.37%) ServiceNow
8 29 (4.72%) Qualys
9 27 (4.40%) CrowdStrike
9 27 (4.40%) Zscaler
10 26 (4.23%) Tanium
11 25 (4.07%) Tenable
12 24 (3.91%) VMware
13 21 (3.42%) Palo Alto
14 18 (2.93%) Fortinet
15 16 (2.61%) LogRhythm
16 15 (2.44%) Google
17 14 (2.28%) Oracle
18 12 (1.95%) IBM
18 12 (1.95%) Okta