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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 185 157
Rank change year-on-year +6 -28 +16
Contract jobs citing SIEM 649 369 582
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.52% 1.50% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.64% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 242 412
10th Percentile £413 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £478 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £574 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.27% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 4 8
10th Percentile £39.13 £56.13 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £71.69 £40.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £80.68 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.92% +65.49% -35.00%
75th Percentile £70.23 £85.76 £72.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £94.30 £76.78
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £80.68 £48.75
% change year-on-year -34.92% +65.49% -35.00%

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 36,362 22,469 32,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.16% 91.35% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,009 14,533 20,781
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £415 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,276 1,038 2,365
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.13 £16.02
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.66 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.13 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.06% -25.68% +1.67%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -3 248 £585 -6.40% 98
South East +11 163 £525 +3.96% 120
North of England +13 103 £558 -3.88% 69
North West +26 80 £558 -0.45% 34
South West +16 45 £600 -1.03% 49
Midlands -56 45 £550 +2.42% 24
West Midlands -56 39 £550 +2.42% 20
Yorkshire -41 23 £570 -5.00% 22
East of England -40 22 £550 - 39
East Midlands -15 6 £438 - 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 18 (2.77%) Confluence
2 5 (0.77%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.77%) Maximo
1 5 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 242 (37.29%) Azure
2 179 (27.58%) AWS
3 111 (17.10%) GCP
4 89 (13.71%) Entra ID
5 61 (9.40%) Azure Sentinel
6 43 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (4.93%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (3.70%) SaaS
9 23 (3.54%) OpenShift
9 23 (3.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (1.85%) Datadog
11 12 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (1.69%) GitHub
13 10 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (1.54%) IaaS
13 10 (1.54%) PaaS
14 9 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 99 (15.25%) Firewall
2 95 (14.64%) Network Security
3 39 (6.01%) DNS
4 31 (4.78%) VPN
5 28 (4.31%) TCP/IP
6 24 (3.70%) SSL
7 18 (2.77%) Intrusion Detection
8 17 (2.62%) WAN
9 15 (2.31%) HTTP
10 13 (2.00%) BGP
10 13 (2.00%) SD-WAN
10 13 (2.00%) VLAN
11 12 (1.85%) Internet
12 11 (1.69%) IPsec
13 9 (1.39%) OSPF
14 8 (1.23%) DHCP
14 8 (1.23%) SSH
15 7 (1.08%) MPLS
15 7 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
15 7 (1.08%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.62%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.62%) Power BI
4 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.15%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.15%) Metadata
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 27 (4.16%) JIRA
2 15 (2.31%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.69%) Git
4 6 (0.92%) Snyk
5 2 (0.31%) GitLab
6 1 (0.15%) AppScan
6 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.15%) JUnit
6 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 191 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 85 (13.10%) Finance
3 73 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (11.09%) Public Sector
5 65 (10.02%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (4.01%) Banking
7 19 (2.93%) Military
8 14 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.39%) Retail
10 8 (1.23%) Local Government
11 7 (1.08%) Legal
12 6 (0.92%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.77%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.46%) Law
16 2 (0.31%) Advertising
16 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.31%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.15%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 118 (18.18%) Analyst
2 116 (17.87%) Architect
3 111 (17.10%) Security Engineer
4 62 (9.55%) Senior
5 54 (8.32%) SOC Analyst
6 49 (7.55%) CyberArk Architect
7 44 (6.78%) Security Analyst
8 38 (5.86%) Consultant
8 38 (5.86%) Security Architect
9 37 (5.70%) Lead
10 30 (4.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 29 (4.47%) SIEM Engineer
12 26 (4.01%) Security Manager
13 25 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
14 23 (3.54%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 21 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
15 21 (3.24%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 21 (3.24%) Network Engineer
15 21 (3.24%) Operations Analyst
16 20 (3.08%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (9.55%) LDAP
2 42 (6.47%) REST
3 33 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
4 32 (4.93%) SOAP
5 20 (3.08%) SAML
6 19 (2.93%) OpenID
7 14 (2.16%) SailPoint
8 12 (1.85%) 802.1X
9 8 (1.23%) Kafka
10 7 (1.08%) ARM Templates
10 7 (1.08%) OAuth
11 6 (0.92%) LangChain
11 6 (0.92%) OAuth2
11 6 (0.92%) PyTorch
11 6 (0.92%) scikit-learn
12 5 (0.77%) Azure Blueprints
13 4 (0.62%) ADO
13 4 (0.62%) eBPF
13 4 (0.62%) Middleware
13 4 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 108 (16.64%) Security Posture
2 85 (13.10%) Onboarding
3 70 (10.79%) Security Operations Centre
4 68 (10.48%) Cloud Native
5 52 (8.01%) Cyber Threat
6 43 (6.63%) Operational Technology
7 39 (6.01%) Management Information System
8 37 (5.70%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (3.70%) Cyber Defence
10 19 (2.93%) Cloud Security Posture
11 17 (2.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 13 (2.00%) Data Centre
12 13 (2.00%) PKI
12 13 (2.00%) SCADA
13 12 (1.85%) Cyberattack
13 12 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (1.69%) CSOC
15 10 (1.54%) Product Ownership
16 9 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
17 8 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 135 (20.80%) Linux
2 134 (20.65%) Windows
3 37 (5.70%) Unix
4 30 (4.62%) Windows Server
5 20 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.46%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.15%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (49.77%) Cybersecurity
2 206 (31.74%) Incident Response
3 202 (31.12%) Security Operations
4 130 (20.03%) Cloud Security
5 110 (16.95%) CI/CD
6 108 (16.64%) DevOps
7 105 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (15.87%) Vulnerability Management
9 101 (15.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 101 (15.56%) Threat Detection
10 95 (14.64%) ITSM
10 95 (14.64%) SOAR
11 90 (13.87%) Zero Trust
12 87 (13.41%) Security Architecture
13 76 (11.71%) Security Monitoring
13 76 (11.71%) Threat Intelligence
14 73 (11.25%) Privileged Access Management
15 69 (10.63%) Data Loss Prevention
16 68 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
16 68 (10.48%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 172 (26.50%) Python
2 151 (23.27%) PowerShell
3 53 (8.17%) Bash
4 45 (6.93%) Kusto Query Language
5 16 (2.47%) Bicep
5 16 (2.47%) SQL
6 13 (2.00%) Search Processing Language
7 12 (1.85%) Java
8 6 (0.92%) Perl
9 3 (0.46%) Groovy
9 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.15%) C
10 1 (0.15%) Lisp
10 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 293 (45.15%) Security Cleared
2 207 (31.90%) SC Cleared
3 134 (20.65%) CISSP
4 81 (12.48%) CISM
5 76 (11.71%) DV Cleared
6 59 (9.09%) Degree
7 53 (8.17%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (5.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 33 (5.08%) GIAC
10 27 (4.16%) CompTIA Security+
11 23 (3.54%) AWS Certification
11 23 (3.54%) Azure Certification
12 19 (2.93%) CEH
13 18 (2.77%) CCNP
13 18 (2.77%) CCSP
14 16 (2.47%) CompTIA CySA+
15 15 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
16 14 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
16 14 (2.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (24.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 157 (24.19%) NIST
3 68 (10.48%) GDPR
4 36 (5.55%) NCSC
5 29 (4.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 27 (4.16%) PCI DSS
7 15 (2.31%) PMO
8 14 (2.16%) SOC 2
9 13 (2.00%) NIST 800
9 13 (2.00%) SLA
10 12 (1.85%) GRC
10 12 (1.85%) HIPAA
11 10 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (1.39%) ISO 31000
13 8 (1.23%) QA
14 6 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.77%) COBIT
16 4 (0.62%) JSP 440
System Software
1 131 (20.18%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.93%) Docker
3 14 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.92%) Snort
4 6 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.77%) Squid
5 5 (0.77%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.46%) vSphere
7 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.15%) NFS
8 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 70 (10.79%) Terraform
2 63 (9.71%) Kubernetes
3 35 (5.39%) Ansible
4 23 (3.54%) QRadar
5 17 (2.62%) CASB
6 12 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.69%) Kibana
7 11 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.39%) Grafana
8 9 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.23%) logstash
10 6 (0.92%) Nessus
11 5 (0.77%) CSIRT
11 5 (0.77%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.46%) Packer
12 3 (0.46%) Puppet
12 3 (0.46%) Suricata
13 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.31%) SCCM
13 2 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 162 (24.96%) Microsoft
2 120 (18.49%) Splunk
3 103 (15.87%) CyberArk
4 71 (10.94%) BeyondTrust
5 37 (5.70%) Cisco
5 37 (5.70%) ServiceNow
6 35 (5.39%) CrowdStrike
7 33 (5.08%) Centrify
8 27 (4.16%) Qualys
9 26 (4.01%) Google
10 23 (3.54%) Tenable
10 23 (3.54%) Zscaler
11 22 (3.39%) Tanium
12 21 (3.24%) Palo Alto
13 20 (3.08%) Fortinet
14 19 (2.93%) Oracle
14 19 (2.93%) Red Hat
15 18 (2.77%) VMware
16 16 (2.47%) Okta
17 12 (1.85%) LogRhythm