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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 170 196
Rank change year-on-year -27 +26 -43
Contract jobs citing SIEM 677 474 422
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.69% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.86% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 307 280
10th Percentile £413 £408 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -8.33% -1.84%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £725
90th Percentile £763 £775 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 11 3
10th Percentile £46.25 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £45.38 £56.25
Median hourly rate £72.50 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +13.04% -23.33%
75th Percentile £90.42 £85.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £98.03 £100.00 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +13.46% +13.04% -20.69%

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 39,226 25,436 27,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.90% 86.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,709 16,124 17,045
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £641
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,969 1,568 1,160
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.43 £17.87 £20.28
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%
75th Percentile £67.25 £45.80 £67.14
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -45 258 £565 -2.80% 312
South East +11 174 £575 +13.58% 103
North of England -14 89 £540 +3.85% 91
South West +15 82 £600 - 35
North West -11 64 £525 +12.60% 55
East of England -45 31 £550 - 26
Midlands -75 27 £500 -2.91% 43
Yorkshire -21 25 £545 +1.40% 29
West Midlands -67 25 £513 -1.25% 29
East Midlands -16 1 £475 +2.70% 14
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 (1.18%) IIS
2 7 (1.03%) Confluence
2 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.30%) Apache
4 2 (0.30%) nginx
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) Mendix
5 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 248 (36.63%) Azure
2 194 (28.66%) AWS
3 100 (14.77%) Entra ID
3 100 (14.77%) GCP
4 73 (10.78%) Azure Sentinel
5 53 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (5.32%) Microsoft Purview
7 27 (3.99%) SaaS
8 26 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
10 21 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (3.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (2.95%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (2.66%) Datadog
13 16 (2.36%) AWS CloudTrail
13 16 (2.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 15 (2.22%) Serverless
15 13 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (1.92%) GitHub
15 13 (1.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 113 (16.69%) Firewall
2 108 (15.95%) Network Security
3 51 (7.53%) DNS
4 42 (6.20%) TCP/IP
5 28 (4.14%) DHCP
6 27 (3.99%) WAN
7 25 (3.69%) HTTP
7 25 (3.69%) VPN
8 23 (3.40%) Intrusion Detection
9 20 (2.95%) SSL
10 19 (2.81%) VSAN
11 13 (1.92%) BGP
11 13 (1.92%) SD-WAN
12 12 (1.77%) Internet
13 10 (1.48%) VLAN
14 8 (1.18%) OSPF
14 8 (1.18%) SMTP
14 8 (1.18%) SNMP
15 7 (1.03%) LAN
15 7 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
2 6 (0.89%) Data Lake
2 6 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.74%) Hazelcast
4 4 (0.59%) Power BI
5 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.30%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.15%) Big Data
6 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
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 14 (2.07%) Jenkins
2 13 (1.92%) GitLab
3 11 (1.62%) Git
4 10 (1.48%) JIRA
5 5 (0.74%) Selenium
6 2 (0.30%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.30%) MSI
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) Subversion
7 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 247 (36.48%) Social Skills
2 100 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (12.70%) Finance
4 77 (11.37%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.94%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (4.14%) Banking
7 20 (2.95%) Military
8 12 (1.77%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.48%) Law
9 10 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.33%) Retail
11 8 (1.18%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.03%) Back Office
12 7 (1.03%) Legal
12 7 (1.03%) Local Government
13 6 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.59%) Police
16 3 (0.44%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 134 (19.79%) Analyst
2 111 (16.40%) Security Engineer
3 82 (12.11%) Architect
4 75 (11.08%) Security Analyst
5 67 (9.90%) SOC Analyst
6 60 (8.86%) Senior
7 58 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 47 (6.94%) Consultant
9 36 (5.32%) Lead
10 35 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.28%) Security Architect
11 29 (4.28%) SIEM Engineer
12 28 (4.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 26 (3.84%) Network Engineer
14 24 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
14 24 (3.55%) Security Specialist
15 23 (3.40%) Cybersecurity Specialist
16 22 (3.25%) SOC Engineer
17 21 (3.10%) Operations Analyst
17 21 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (15.51%) Terraform
2 65 (9.60%) LDAP
3 16 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (2.36%) SailPoint
4 15 (2.22%) REST
5 14 (2.07%) Kafka
6 11 (1.62%) JSON
7 10 (1.48%) ARM Templates
8 8 (1.18%) Azure Blueprints
9 7 (1.03%) Regular Expression
9 7 (1.03%) SAML
10 6 (0.89%) FIDO
10 6 (0.89%) OAuth
10 6 (0.89%) WebAuthn
11 5 (0.74%) 802.1X
11 5 (0.74%) eBPF
11 5 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.59%) CSS
13 3 (0.44%) OpenID
13 3 (0.44%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 107 (15.81%) Onboarding
2 89 (13.15%) Security Posture
3 80 (11.82%) Cyber Threat
4 71 (10.49%) Security Operations Centre
5 66 (9.75%) Cloud Native
6 48 (7.09%) Cyber Defence
7 45 (6.65%) Management Information System
8 40 (5.91%) Operational Technology
9 28 (4.14%) Data Centre
9 28 (4.14%) PKI
10 25 (3.69%) Cloud Security Posture
11 19 (2.81%) CMDB
12 17 (2.51%) CSOC
13 15 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 13 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (1.62%) Cyberattack
15 11 (1.62%) SCADA
16 10 (1.48%) Replication
16 10 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 151 (22.30%) Windows
2 141 (20.83%) Linux
3 40 (5.91%) Unix
4 30 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (4.28%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.03%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.59%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.59%) 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
1 374 (55.24%) Cybersecurity
2 239 (35.30%) Incident Response
3 213 (31.46%) Security Operations
4 158 (23.34%) Cloud Security
4 158 (23.34%) Security Monitoring
5 150 (22.16%) Threat Detection
6 124 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 123 (18.17%) Vulnerability Management
8 119 (17.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 116 (17.13%) CI/CD
10 112 (16.54%) Threat Intelligence
11 111 (16.40%) SOAR
12 107 (15.81%) Security Architecture
13 99 (14.62%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 99 (14.62%) ITSM
14 95 (14.03%) DevOps
14 95 (14.03%) DevSecOps
15 93 (13.74%) Infrastructure as Code
16 85 (12.56%) Runbook
17 83 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 157 (23.19%) Python
2 147 (21.71%) PowerShell
3 86 (12.70%) Bash
4 48 (7.09%) Kusto Query Language
5 25 (3.69%) SQL
6 22 (3.25%) Bicep
6 22 (3.25%) Java
7 19 (2.81%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (1.03%) Perl
9 3 (0.44%) Go
9 3 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.30%) C
10 2 (0.30%) C#
10 2 (0.30%) Groovy
10 2 (0.30%) Korn
10 2 (0.30%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 319 (47.12%) Security Cleared
2 199 (29.39%) SC Cleared
3 136 (20.09%) CISSP
4 125 (18.46%) DV Cleared
5 76 (11.23%) CISM
6 61 (9.01%) Degree
7 52 (7.68%) Cisco Certification
8 39 (5.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 38 (5.61%) AWS Certification
10 35 (5.17%) GIAC
11 30 (4.43%) Azure Certification
12 25 (3.69%) CompTIA Security+
12 25 (3.69%) GCIH
13 22 (3.25%) CCSP
14 19 (2.81%) CEH
14 19 (2.81%) SANS
15 17 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (2.51%) CompTIA CySA+
15 17 (2.51%) GSEC
16 16 (2.36%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (25.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 172 (25.41%) NIST
3 57 (8.42%) GDPR
4 52 (7.68%) NCSC
5 36 (5.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 29 (4.28%) PCI DSS
7 20 (2.95%) GRC
8 12 (1.77%) NIST 800
8 12 (1.77%) SLA
9 11 (1.62%) PMO
10 10 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (1.33%) ISO 31000
11 9 (1.33%) QA
12 8 (1.18%) Data Quality
12 8 (1.18%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.74%) COBIT
15 3 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.44%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.30%) JSP 440
System Software
1 159 (23.49%) Active Directory
2 39 (5.76%) Docker
3 38 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.95%) Hyper-V
5 17 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (2.51%) VMware NSX
5 17 (2.51%) vSphere
6 8 (1.18%) NFS
7 5 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.44%) Squid
9 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.15%) Samba
10 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 72 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 60 (8.86%) Ansible
3 34 (5.02%) QRadar
4 24 (3.55%) Progress Chef
5 18 (2.66%) Grafana
6 14 (2.07%) VxRail
7 12 (1.77%) CASB
8 9 (1.33%) Prometheus
8 9 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.89%) Check_MK
10 6 (0.89%) Puppet
11 5 (0.74%) Istio
11 5 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.74%) linkerd
12 4 (0.59%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.59%) Packer
12 4 (0.59%) Podman
13 3 (0.44%) Argo
13 3 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 196 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 119 (17.58%) Splunk
3 97 (14.33%) CyberArk
4 43 (6.35%) ServiceNow
5 41 (6.06%) CrowdStrike
5 41 (6.06%) VMware
6 37 (5.47%) Google
7 29 (4.28%) BeyondTrust
8 25 (3.69%) Zscaler
9 23 (3.40%) Cisco
9 23 (3.40%) Palo Alto
9 23 (3.40%) Red Hat
10 21 (3.10%) Oracle
11 16 (2.36%) LogRhythm
12 15 (2.22%) ArcSight
12 15 (2.22%) Rapid7
13 14 (2.07%) Cribl.io
13 14 (2.07%) Tenable
14 13 (1.92%) Fortinet
14 13 (1.92%) Qualys