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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 194 160
Rank change year-on-year +36 -34 +103
Contract jobs citing SIEM 553 351 549
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 1.32% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.47% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 229 422
10th Percentile £408 £406 £464
25th Percentile £463 £509 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £675 £750
90th Percentile £750 £825 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 2
10th Percentile - - £63.75
25th Percentile £41.94 £56.25 £65.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - -16.36% +4.96%
75th Percentile £77.50 £58.75 £71.88
90th Percentile £85.10 - £73.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -17.86% +6.87%

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 27,911 23,801 32,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.11% 89.29% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,824 14,585 21,671
10th Percentile £304 £310 £304
25th Percentile £409 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,743 772 1,617
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.94 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.20 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.43 £75.00 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £38.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -16.34% +19.54%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +40 243 £581 +1.09% 42
South East +43 124 £492 -13.23% 64
Midlands -28 61 £525 -9.72% 21
West Midlands -30 52 £550 -5.42% 10
South West -5 46 £550 -10.20% 18
North of England -22 41 £500 -16.67% 36
North West -11 23 £458 -12.86% 17
East of England -8 17 £563 - 28
Yorkshire -37 15 £520 -18.43% 15
East Midlands - 9 £438 - 11
North East -11 3 £400 +14.29% 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 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (0.90%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.72%) Confluence
4 1 (0.18%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.45%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 228 (41.23%) Azure
2 194 (35.08%) AWS
3 107 (19.35%) GCP
4 77 (13.92%) Azure Sentinel
5 52 (9.40%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (6.87%) Entra ID
7 22 (3.98%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (3.07%) Microsoft Purview
9 15 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.53%) SaaS
11 11 (1.99%) OpenShift
12 9 (1.63%) Azure AKS
12 9 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (1.63%) GitHub
13 8 (1.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 7 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 7 (1.27%) PaaS
14 7 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 123 (22.24%) Firewall
2 98 (17.72%) Network Security
3 41 (7.41%) DNS
4 38 (6.87%) TCP/IP
5 33 (5.97%) VPN
6 15 (2.71%) DHCP
7 14 (2.53%) SSL
8 12 (2.17%) SMTP
9 11 (1.99%) Intrusion Detection
10 10 (1.81%) Internet
11 8 (1.45%) HTTP
12 7 (1.27%) LAN
12 7 (1.27%) WAN
13 6 (1.08%) BGP
13 6 (1.08%) FTP
13 6 (1.08%) Wireshark
14 5 (0.90%) DKIM
14 5 (0.90%) DMARC
15 4 (0.72%) SD-WAN
15 4 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (1.63%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.72%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.36%) Power BI
6 1 (0.18%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (1.99%) JIRA
2 7 (1.27%) GitLab
3 6 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.72%) Metasploit
5 3 (0.54%) Git
6 2 (0.36%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.36%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.36%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.36%) Snyk
7 1 (0.18%) JUnit
7 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 202 (36.53%) Social Skills
2 95 (17.18%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (11.03%) Public Sector
4 60 (10.85%) Finance
5 47 (8.50%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (3.07%) Banking
7 13 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.99%) Military
9 9 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.63%) Legal
10 8 (1.45%) Retail
11 6 (1.08%) Back Office
11 6 (1.08%) Local Government
12 4 (0.72%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.72%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.36%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.18%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 114 (20.61%) Security Engineer
2 113 (20.43%) Analyst
3 108 (19.53%) Architect
4 58 (10.49%) Security Analyst
5 57 (10.31%) Senior
6 45 (8.14%) SIEM Engineer
6 45 (8.14%) SOC Analyst
7 43 (7.78%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 37 (6.69%) CyberArk Architect
8 37 (6.69%) Security Architect
9 24 (4.34%) Lead
10 22 (3.98%) Consultant
10 22 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
11 21 (3.80%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 18 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
12 18 (3.25%) Security Manager
13 16 (2.89%) SOC Engineer
14 15 (2.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (2.71%) Security Consultant
15 14 (2.53%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (12.12%) LDAP
2 48 (8.68%) REST
3 35 (6.33%) SOAP
4 22 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (2.17%) SAML
6 9 (1.63%) OpenID
7 8 (1.45%) ARM Templates
8 7 (1.27%) Kafka
9 6 (1.08%) OAuth
10 5 (0.90%) JSON
10 5 (0.90%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.90%) Regular Expression
11 4 (0.72%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (0.54%) .NET
12 3 (0.54%) 802.1X
12 3 (0.54%) Lightning Web Components
12 3 (0.54%) Node.js
13 2 (0.36%) ADO
13 2 (0.36%) gRPC
13 2 (0.36%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (15.73%) Security Posture
2 72 (13.02%) Security Operations Centre
3 51 (9.22%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (9.04%) Cyber Threat
5 41 (7.41%) Onboarding
6 31 (5.61%) Cyber Defence
7 27 (4.88%) Management Information System
8 23 (4.16%) Operational Technology
9 22 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (3.98%) PKI
10 21 (3.80%) Cloud Native
11 17 (3.07%) CSOC
12 15 (2.71%) Cyberattack
13 12 (2.17%) Cyber Security Posture
14 11 (1.99%) Cloud Security Posture
15 10 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (1.81%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 8 (1.45%) Public Cloud
17 7 (1.27%) Product Ownership
18 5 (0.90%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 97 (17.54%) Linux
2 96 (17.36%) Windows
3 23 (4.16%) Windows Server
4 21 (3.80%) Unix
5 17 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.72%) CentOS
8 3 (0.54%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.36%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (49.73%) Cybersecurity
2 216 (39.06%) Incident Response
3 168 (30.38%) Security Operations
4 129 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (22.78%) SOAR
6 125 (22.60%) Threat Detection
7 113 (20.43%) Cloud Security
8 80 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 80 (14.47%) Vulnerability Management
9 75 (13.56%) CI/CD
10 73 (13.20%) DevOps
11 61 (11.03%) Identity Access Management
12 60 (10.85%) Zero Trust
13 58 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
13 58 (10.49%) Security Architecture
14 57 (10.31%) Task Automation
15 55 (9.95%) DevSecOps
15 55 (9.95%) MITRE ATT&CK
16 54 (9.76%) Threat Modelling
17 53 (9.58%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 190 (34.36%) Python
2 176 (31.83%) PowerShell
3 51 (9.22%) Kusto Query Language
4 38 (6.87%) Bash
5 19 (3.44%) Bicep
6 9 (1.63%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.45%) Java
8 5 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (0.90%) SQL
9 4 (0.72%) Go
10 3 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.36%) C++
11 2 (0.36%) VBScript
12 1 (0.18%) C
12 1 (0.18%) R
12 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 249 (45.03%) Security Cleared
2 203 (36.71%) SC Cleared
3 135 (24.41%) CISSP
4 72 (13.02%) CISM
5 62 (11.21%) DV Cleared
6 50 (9.04%) Degree
7 41 (7.41%) GIAC
8 39 (7.05%) CEH
9 34 (6.15%) CompTIA Security+
10 29 (5.24%) Azure Certification
11 26 (4.70%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (3.62%) AWS Certification
13 18 (3.25%) GCIH
14 16 (2.89%) CompTIA CySA+
14 16 (2.89%) GCIA
15 15 (2.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (2.35%) CCSP
16 13 (2.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 13 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
17 11 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (27.49%) NIST
2 138 (24.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 81 (14.65%) GDPR
4 38 (6.87%) PCI DSS
5 31 (5.61%) NCSC
6 26 (4.70%) HIPAA
7 16 (2.89%) NIST 800
8 15 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (1.99%) GRC
10 10 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (1.63%) SOC 2
12 8 (1.45%) JSP 440
13 7 (1.27%) PSD2
14 5 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.72%) QA
16 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
16 2 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.36%) RMADS
16 2 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 103 (18.63%) Active Directory
2 29 (5.24%) Docker
3 12 (2.17%) Hyper-V
3 12 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.45%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.27%) Snort
5 7 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.90%) Squid
7 4 (0.72%) Postfix
8 2 (0.36%) NFS
8 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.18%) GPFS
9 1 (0.18%) Lustre
9 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (10.13%) Terraform
2 47 (8.50%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.24%) QRadar
4 22 (3.98%) Ansible
5 20 (3.62%) Kibana
6 15 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.99%) logstash
8 11 (1.99%) Nessus
8 11 (1.99%) SCCM
9 10 (1.81%) WSUS
10 8 (1.45%) CSIRT
11 6 (1.08%) Grafana
12 4 (0.72%) Nexpose
12 4 (0.72%) Suricata
13 3 (0.54%) Argo
13 3 (0.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 3 (0.54%) Fluentd
13 3 (0.54%) Icinga
14 2 (0.36%) vRealize
Vendors
1 162 (29.29%) Microsoft
2 131 (23.69%) Splunk
3 74 (13.38%) CyberArk
4 64 (11.57%) BeyondTrust
5 36 (6.51%) CrowdStrike
6 34 (6.15%) Centrify
7 29 (5.24%) Palo Alto
8 28 (5.06%) Qualys
9 25 (4.52%) Tenable
10 23 (4.16%) Cisco
10 23 (4.16%) VMware
11 19 (3.44%) Google
12 18 (3.25%) Zscaler
13 17 (3.07%) ArcSight
13 17 (3.07%) FireEye
13 17 (3.07%) LogRhythm
14 14 (2.53%) Fortinet
15 13 (2.35%) ServiceNow
16 12 (2.17%) Tanium
17 10 (1.81%) IBM