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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 168 197
Rank change year-on-year -22 +29 -39
Contract jobs citing SIEM 686 471 419
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.69% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.87% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 305 287
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -2.24%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £725
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £551 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +0.18% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 10 3
10th Percentile £46.25 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £47.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +13.04% -28.13%
75th Percentile £92.11 £85.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £98.56 £100.55 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £73.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +12.31% +13.04% -23.33%

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 39,304 25,245 28,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.83% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,151 16,024 17,695
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,693 1,483 1,349
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.31 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -35 255 £568 -1.30% 266
South East -3 174 £575 +12.20% 107
North of England -14 102 £540 +4.10% 65
South West +10 82 £600 - 48
North West -14 73 £525 +14.75% 50
East of England -37 32 £550 - 41
Yorkshire -26 29 £588 +9.30% 13
Midlands -81 25 £500 -2.91% 23
West Midlands -68 22 £500 -3.66% 15
East Midlands -20 2 £550 +18.92% 8
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 8 (1.17%) Confluence
2 7 (1.02%) IIS
3 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.15%) Mendix
5 1 (0.15%) nginx
5 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
1 6 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 245 (35.71%) Azure
2 197 (28.72%) AWS
3 98 (14.29%) GCP
4 96 (13.99%) Entra ID
5 68 (9.91%) Azure Sentinel
6 61 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (5.25%) Microsoft Purview
8 33 (4.81%) SaaS
9 23 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (2.48%) AWS CloudTrail
14 16 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 15 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (2.19%) Datadog
15 15 (2.19%) Serverless
16 14 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (2.04%) GitHub
17 13 (1.90%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 111 (16.18%) Firewall
2 97 (14.14%) Network Security
3 50 (7.29%) DNS
4 43 (6.27%) TCP/IP
5 28 (4.08%) DHCP
6 25 (3.64%) WAN
7 24 (3.50%) SSL
8 23 (3.35%) HTTP
9 22 (3.21%) Intrusion Detection
9 22 (3.21%) VPN
10 21 (3.06%) VSAN
11 16 (2.33%) Internet
12 13 (1.90%) BGP
12 13 (1.90%) SD-WAN
13 10 (1.46%) VLAN
14 8 (1.17%) OSPF
14 8 (1.17%) SNMP
15 7 (1.02%) Cisco Firepower
16 6 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
17 5 (0.73%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.06%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (0.73%) Hazelcast
4 4 (0.58%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.58%) Power BI
5 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.15%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (2.33%) JIRA
2 14 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.75%) Git
4 11 (1.60%) GitLab
5 5 (0.73%) Selenium
6 3 (0.44%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.29%) MSI
8 1 (0.15%) Snyk
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 228 (33.24%) Social Skills
2 97 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
3 90 (13.12%) Finance
4 78 (11.37%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.73%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (4.37%) Banking
7 20 (2.92%) Military
8 12 (1.75%) Retail
9 11 (1.60%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.60%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.46%) Local Government
11 9 (1.31%) Law
11 9 (1.31%) Legal
12 8 (1.17%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.02%) Back Office
13 7 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.44%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.44%) Digital Healthcare
15 3 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 135 (19.68%) Analyst
2 110 (16.03%) Security Engineer
3 75 (10.93%) Architect
4 72 (10.50%) Security Analyst
5 63 (9.18%) SOC Analyst
6 58 (8.45%) Senior
7 54 (7.87%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 48 (7.00%) Consultant
9 38 (5.54%) Lead
10 33 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 31 (4.52%) Security Architect
12 28 (4.08%) SOC Engineer
13 25 (3.64%) Security Manager
14 24 (3.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 24 (3.50%) Security Specialist
14 24 (3.50%) SIEM Engineer
15 23 (3.35%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 23 (3.35%) Network Engineer
15 23 (3.35%) Operations Analyst
15 23 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (13.27%) Terraform
2 56 (8.16%) LDAP
3 18 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (2.19%) REST
5 14 (2.04%) SailPoint
6 11 (1.60%) JSON
6 11 (1.60%) Kafka
7 10 (1.46%) ARM Templates
8 8 (1.17%) Azure Blueprints
9 7 (1.02%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.87%) FIDO
10 6 (0.87%) WebAuthn
11 5 (0.73%) 802.1X
11 5 (0.73%) eBPF
11 5 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.58%) CSS
12 4 (0.58%) OAuth
12 4 (0.58%) SAML
13 3 (0.44%) LangChain
13 3 (0.44%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 99 (14.43%) Onboarding
2 93 (13.56%) Security Posture
3 75 (10.93%) Cyber Threat
4 70 (10.20%) Security Operations Centre
5 62 (9.04%) Cloud Native
6 42 (6.12%) Cyber Defence
6 42 (6.12%) Management Information System
6 42 (6.12%) Operational Technology
7 30 (4.37%) Cloud Security Posture
8 27 (3.94%) Data Centre
9 26 (3.79%) PKI
10 16 (2.33%) CSOC
11 15 (2.19%) CMDB
11 15 (2.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 13 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (1.75%) SCADA
14 11 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.31%) Public Cloud
16 9 (1.31%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 155 (22.59%) Windows
2 144 (20.99%) Linux
3 40 (5.83%) Unix
4 30 (4.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (3.94%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.02%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.58%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (54.37%) Cybersecurity
2 241 (35.13%) Incident Response
3 208 (30.32%) Security Operations
4 157 (22.89%) Cloud Security
5 146 (21.28%) Threat Detection
6 143 (20.85%) Security Monitoring
7 120 (17.49%) Vulnerability Management
8 115 (16.76%) CI/CD
9 110 (16.03%) Stakeholder Management
10 109 (15.89%) SOAR
11 108 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 105 (15.31%) Threat Intelligence
13 98 (14.29%) Security Architecture
14 93 (13.56%) DevOps
15 92 (13.41%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 91 (13.27%) ITSM
17 86 (12.54%) DevSecOps
18 82 (11.95%) Incident Management
18 82 (11.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 79 (11.52%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 150 (21.87%) Python
2 145 (21.14%) PowerShell
3 84 (12.24%) Bash
4 44 (6.41%) Kusto Query Language
5 23 (3.35%) SQL
6 21 (3.06%) Bicep
6 21 (3.06%) Java
7 19 (2.77%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (1.02%) Perl
9 3 (0.44%) Groovy
9 3 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.29%) C
10 2 (0.29%) Go
10 2 (0.29%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 312 (45.48%) Security Cleared
2 187 (27.26%) SC Cleared
3 148 (21.57%) CISSP
4 124 (18.08%) DV Cleared
5 87 (12.68%) CISM
6 61 (8.89%) Degree
7 59 (8.60%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (6.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 38 (5.54%) AWS Certification
10 31 (4.52%) GIAC
11 30 (4.37%) Azure Certification
12 28 (4.08%) CompTIA Security+
13 24 (3.50%) CEH
13 24 (3.50%) GCIH
14 22 (3.21%) CCSP
15 19 (2.77%) SANS
16 17 (2.48%) GSEC
17 16 (2.33%) CompTIA CySA+
17 16 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
18 15 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (25.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 165 (24.05%) NIST
3 69 (10.06%) GDPR
4 50 (7.29%) NCSC
5 33 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 28 (4.08%) PCI DSS
7 19 (2.77%) GRC
8 14 (2.04%) NIST 800
8 14 (2.04%) PMO
8 14 (2.04%) SLA
9 12 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 12 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (1.46%) HIPAA
11 9 (1.31%) ISO 31000
12 8 (1.17%) QA
13 6 (0.87%) COBIT
13 6 (0.87%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.73%) Data Quality
15 3 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 151 (22.01%) Active Directory
2 39 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (5.54%) Docker
4 20 (2.92%) Hyper-V
5 19 (2.77%) VMware NSX
6 18 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (2.62%) vSphere
7 8 (1.17%) NFS
8 7 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.58%) Squid
10 2 (0.29%) Snort
10 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.15%) Samba
11 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 64 (9.33%) Kubernetes
2 54 (7.87%) Ansible
3 35 (5.10%) QRadar
4 23 (3.35%) CASB
5 20 (2.92%) Progress Chef
6 14 (2.04%) VxRail
7 12 (1.75%) Grafana
8 11 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.17%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.87%) Check_MK
11 6 (0.87%) Puppet
12 5 (0.73%) Istio
12 5 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.73%) linkerd
13 4 (0.58%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.58%) Packer
13 4 (0.58%) Podman
14 3 (0.44%) Nessus
14 3 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 187 (27.26%) Microsoft
2 114 (16.62%) Splunk
3 92 (13.41%) CyberArk
4 47 (6.85%) ServiceNow
5 46 (6.71%) CrowdStrike
6 44 (6.41%) VMware
7 33 (4.81%) Google
8 29 (4.23%) BeyondTrust
9 26 (3.79%) Zscaler
10 23 (3.35%) Cisco
11 22 (3.21%) Red Hat
12 21 (3.06%) Oracle
12 21 (3.06%) Palo Alto
13 19 (2.77%) Tanium
14 16 (2.33%) Qualys
15 14 (2.04%) Cribl.io
15 14 (2.04%) Fortinet
15 14 (2.04%) Tenable
16 13 (1.90%) ArcSight
17 11 (1.60%) Trend Micro