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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 170 191
Rank change year-on-year -29 +21 -36
Contract jobs citing SIEM 669 475 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.69% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.86% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 308 280
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £508
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 £753 £775 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 11 3
10th Percentile £46.25 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £58.32 £45.38 £56.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -23.33%
75th Percentile £92.11 £85.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £98.42 £100.00 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% +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 39,199 25,531 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.87% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,678 16,181 17,100
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
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 2,975 1,587 1,157
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.79 £20.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.92
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -55 258 £563 -2.17% 346
South East +6 168 £575 +12.20% 105
North of England -20 89 £540 +3.85% 94
South West +23 82 £600 - 38
North West -17 64 £525 +12.60% 57
East of England -41 30 £550 - 27
Midlands -68 27 £500 -2.91% 45
Yorkshire -21 25 £545 +1.40% 30
West Midlands -67 25 £513 -1.25% 31
East Midlands -22 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 (1.20%) IIS
2 7 (1.05%) Confluence
2 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.45%) 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 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 245 (36.62%) Azure
2 192 (28.70%) AWS
3 99 (14.80%) GCP
4 98 (14.65%) Entra ID
5 72 (10.76%) Azure Sentinel
6 53 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (5.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (3.89%) SaaS
9 25 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (3.44%) Azure Logic Apps
11 21 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (2.54%) Datadog
14 16 (2.39%) AWS CloudTrail
14 16 (2.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 15 (2.24%) Serverless
16 13 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (1.94%) IaaS
17 12 (1.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 113 (16.89%) Firewall
2 107 (15.99%) Network Security
3 51 (7.62%) DNS
4 42 (6.28%) TCP/IP
5 28 (4.19%) DHCP
6 27 (4.04%) WAN
7 25 (3.74%) HTTP
7 25 (3.74%) VPN
8 23 (3.44%) Intrusion Detection
9 20 (2.99%) SSL
10 19 (2.84%) VSAN
11 13 (1.94%) BGP
11 13 (1.94%) SD-WAN
12 12 (1.79%) Internet
13 11 (1.64%) VLAN
14 8 (1.20%) OSPF
14 8 (1.20%) SMTP
14 8 (1.20%) SNMP
15 7 (1.05%) LAN
15 7 (1.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.24%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
2 6 (0.90%) Data Lake
2 6 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.75%) Hazelcast
4 4 (0.60%) 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 (2.09%) Jenkins
2 12 (1.79%) GitLab
3 11 (1.64%) Git
4 9 (1.35%) JIRA
5 5 (0.75%) 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
1 244 (36.47%) Social Skills
2 99 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
3 84 (12.56%) Finance
4 72 (10.76%) Public Sector
5 44 (6.58%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (4.04%) Banking
7 19 (2.84%) Military
8 12 (1.79%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.49%) Law
9 10 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.35%) Retail
11 8 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.05%) Back Office
12 7 (1.05%) Local Government
13 6 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.90%) Legal
14 5 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.60%) Police
16 3 (0.45%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 132 (19.73%) Analyst
2 112 (16.74%) Security Engineer
3 80 (11.96%) Architect
4 75 (11.21%) Security Analyst
5 67 (10.01%) SOC Analyst
6 60 (8.97%) Senior
7 58 (8.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 46 (6.88%) Consultant
9 37 (5.53%) Lead
10 35 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 29 (4.33%) Security Architect
11 29 (4.33%) SIEM Engineer
12 26 (3.89%) Network Engineer
13 24 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
13 24 (3.59%) Security Specialist
14 23 (3.44%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 22 (3.29%) SOC Engineer
16 21 (3.14%) Operations Analyst
16 21 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (15.70%) Terraform
2 65 (9.72%) LDAP
3 16 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (2.24%) REST
4 15 (2.24%) SailPoint
5 14 (2.09%) Kafka
6 11 (1.64%) JSON
7 10 (1.49%) ARM Templates
8 8 (1.20%) Azure Blueprints
9 7 (1.05%) Regular Expression
9 7 (1.05%) SAML
10 6 (0.90%) FIDO
10 6 (0.90%) OAuth
10 6 (0.90%) WebAuthn
11 5 (0.75%) 802.1X
11 5 (0.75%) eBPF
11 5 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.60%) CSS
13 3 (0.45%) OpenID
13 3 (0.45%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 101 (15.10%) Onboarding
2 88 (13.15%) Security Posture
3 79 (11.81%) Cyber Threat
4 71 (10.61%) Security Operations Centre
5 64 (9.57%) Cloud Native
6 49 (7.32%) Cyber Defence
7 41 (6.13%) Management Information System
8 40 (5.98%) Operational Technology
9 28 (4.19%) PKI
10 27 (4.04%) Data Centre
11 24 (3.59%) Cloud Security Posture
12 18 (2.69%) CMDB
13 17 (2.54%) CSOC
14 14 (2.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 13 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (1.64%) Cyberattack
16 11 (1.64%) Replication
16 11 (1.64%) SCADA
17 10 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 145 (21.67%) Windows
2 135 (20.18%) Linux
3 34 (5.08%) Unix
4 30 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (3.89%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.05%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (55.61%) Cybersecurity
2 239 (35.72%) Incident Response
3 213 (31.84%) Security Operations
4 157 (23.47%) Security Monitoring
5 156 (23.32%) Cloud Security
6 150 (22.42%) Threat Detection
7 124 (18.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 124 (18.54%) Vulnerability Management
8 119 (17.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 114 (17.04%) CI/CD
10 111 (16.59%) Threat Intelligence
11 110 (16.44%) SOAR
12 104 (15.55%) Security Architecture
13 98 (14.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 95 (14.20%) DevSecOps
15 93 (13.90%) DevOps
15 93 (13.90%) Infrastructure as Code
15 93 (13.90%) ITSM
16 82 (12.26%) Analytics
17 81 (12.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 152 (22.72%) Python
2 141 (21.08%) PowerShell
3 87 (13.00%) Bash
4 48 (7.17%) Kusto Query Language
5 25 (3.74%) SQL
6 22 (3.29%) Java
7 21 (3.14%) Bicep
8 19 (2.84%) Search Processing Language
9 7 (1.05%) Perl
10 4 (0.60%) Go
11 3 (0.45%) C#
11 3 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.30%) C
12 2 (0.30%) Groovy
12 2 (0.30%) Korn
12 2 (0.30%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 314 (46.94%) Security Cleared
2 196 (29.30%) SC Cleared
3 134 (20.03%) CISSP
4 125 (18.68%) DV Cleared
5 76 (11.36%) CISM
6 57 (8.52%) Degree
7 51 (7.62%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (5.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 38 (5.68%) AWS Certification
9 35 (5.23%) GIAC
10 29 (4.33%) Azure Certification
11 25 (3.74%) CompTIA Security+
12 24 (3.59%) GCIH
13 21 (3.14%) CCSP
14 19 (2.84%) CEH
14 19 (2.84%) SANS
15 17 (2.54%) CompTIA CySA+
15 17 (2.54%) GSEC
16 16 (2.39%) GCIA
16 16 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (24.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 163 (24.36%) NIST
3 56 (8.37%) GDPR
4 52 (7.77%) NCSC
5 36 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 29 (4.33%) PCI DSS
7 18 (2.69%) GRC
8 12 (1.79%) NIST 800
9 11 (1.64%) PMO
9 11 (1.64%) SLA
10 10 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (1.35%) ISO 31000
11 9 (1.35%) QA
12 8 (1.20%) Data Quality
12 8 (1.20%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.75%) COBIT
15 3 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 152 (22.72%) Active Directory
2 40 (5.98%) Docker
3 38 (5.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.99%) Hyper-V
5 18 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.54%) VMware NSX
6 17 (2.54%) vSphere
7 8 (1.20%) NFS
8 5 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.45%) Squid
10 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.15%) Samba
11 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 72 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 60 (8.97%) Ansible
3 34 (5.08%) QRadar
4 24 (3.59%) Progress Chef
5 18 (2.69%) Grafana
6 14 (2.09%) VxRail
7 12 (1.79%) CASB
8 9 (1.35%) Prometheus
8 9 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.90%) Check_MK
10 6 (0.90%) Puppet
11 5 (0.75%) Istio
11 5 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.75%) linkerd
12 4 (0.60%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.60%) Packer
12 4 (0.60%) Podman
13 3 (0.45%) Argo
13 3 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 194 (29.00%) Microsoft
2 118 (17.64%) Splunk
3 91 (13.60%) CyberArk
4 42 (6.28%) ServiceNow
5 41 (6.13%) CrowdStrike
5 41 (6.13%) VMware
6 37 (5.53%) Google
7 25 (3.74%) Zscaler
8 23 (3.44%) BeyondTrust
8 23 (3.44%) Cisco
8 23 (3.44%) Palo Alto
8 23 (3.44%) Red Hat
9 16 (2.39%) LogRhythm
9 16 (2.39%) Oracle
10 15 (2.24%) ArcSight
10 15 (2.24%) Rapid7
11 14 (2.09%) Cribl.io
11 14 (2.09%) Tenable
12 13 (1.94%) Fortinet
12 13 (1.94%) Qualys