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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 191 157
Rank change year-on-year +10 -34 +4
Contract jobs citing SIEM 648 375 582
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.47% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.61% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 242 404
10th Percentile £413 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £630 £673 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 5 8
10th Percentile £37.72 £59.59 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £80.34 £40.00
Median hourly rate £53.75 £80.68 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.37% +65.49% -35.00%
75th Percentile £70.32 £100.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £103.30 £76.78
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £80.68 £48.75
% change year-on-year -33.37% +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 37,351 23,260 31,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.20% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,546 14,980 20,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,338 1,158 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.38 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -31 234 £575 -7.07% 61
South East +14 167 £525 +5.00% 67
North of England 0 110 £558 -7.08% 34
North West +13 83 £558 -8.79% 19
Midlands -53 48 £545 +7.92% 15
South West +5 44 £613 +1.03% 24
West Midlands -52 42 £550 +8.91% 12
Yorkshire -36 27 £550 -8.33% 13
East of England -37 23 £550 - 20
East Midlands -12 6 £442 - 3
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 16 (2.47%) 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
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.31%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 220 (33.95%) Azure
2 160 (24.69%) AWS
3 92 (14.20%) Entra ID
4 91 (14.04%) GCP
5 57 (8.80%) Azure Sentinel
6 41 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (5.09%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (4.01%) SaaS
9 22 (3.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 20 (3.09%) OpenShift
11 16 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (2.16%) Datadog
13 13 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (2.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 12 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (1.70%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (1.70%) IaaS
15 11 (1.70%) Serverless
16 10 (1.54%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 110 (16.98%) Firewall
2 106 (16.36%) Network Security
3 35 (5.40%) DNS
4 31 (4.78%) VPN
5 26 (4.01%) TCP/IP
6 25 (3.86%) WAN
7 24 (3.70%) SSL
8 22 (3.40%) Intrusion Detection
9 16 (2.47%) BGP
9 16 (2.47%) SD-WAN
10 15 (2.31%) HTTP
10 15 (2.31%) Internet
11 13 (2.01%) VLAN
12 12 (1.85%) IPsec
13 11 (1.70%) OSPF
14 9 (1.39%) DHCP
15 8 (1.23%) NGFW
15 8 (1.23%) SNMP
15 8 (1.23%) SSH
16 7 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.86%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.62%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.62%) Power BI
4 3 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
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%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.15%) Metadata
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 27 (4.17%) JIRA
2 17 (2.62%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.85%) Git
4 6 (0.93%) Snyk
5 2 (0.31%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.31%) GitLab
6 1 (0.15%) AppScan
6 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 186 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 94 (14.51%) Finance
3 74 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (11.27%) Public Sector
5 67 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (4.48%) Banking
7 19 (2.93%) Military
8 14 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.54%) Local Government
10 9 (1.39%) Retail
11 7 (1.08%) Legal
12 6 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.93%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.77%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.46%) Law
15 3 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.31%) Advertising
16 2 (0.31%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 123 (18.98%) Analyst
2 111 (17.13%) Security Engineer
3 96 (14.81%) Architect
4 57 (8.80%) Senior
5 53 (8.18%) SOC Analyst
6 52 (8.02%) Security Analyst
7 45 (6.94%) Security Architect
8 42 (6.48%) Consultant
9 37 (5.71%) Lead
10 36 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 30 (4.63%) SIEM Engineer
12 26 (4.01%) Security Manager
13 25 (3.86%) Network Engineer
14 24 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
14 24 (3.70%) CyberArk Architect
14 24 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 23 (3.55%) Operations Analyst
16 21 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
16 21 (3.24%) SOC Engineer
17 20 (3.09%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.02%) LDAP
2 32 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (2.93%) SAML
4 18 (2.78%) OpenID
4 18 (2.78%) REST
5 14 (2.16%) SailPoint
6 11 (1.70%) 802.1X
7 9 (1.39%) LangChain
7 9 (1.39%) PyTorch
7 9 (1.39%) scikit-learn
8 8 (1.23%) Kafka
9 7 (1.08%) SOAP
10 6 (0.93%) OAuth
11 5 (0.77%) eBPF
11 5 (0.77%) OAuth2
11 5 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.62%) ARM Templates
12 4 (0.62%) Azure Blueprints
12 4 (0.62%) CSS
12 4 (0.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 96 (14.81%) Security Posture
2 91 (14.04%) Onboarding
3 75 (11.57%) Cloud Native
4 69 (10.65%) Security Operations Centre
5 50 (7.72%) Cyber Threat
6 47 (7.25%) Operational Technology
7 41 (6.33%) Management Information System
8 26 (4.01%) Cyber Defence
9 20 (3.09%) Cloud Security Posture
10 17 (2.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 16 (2.47%) Data Centre
12 15 (2.31%) SCADA
13 13 (2.01%) CSOC
13 13 (2.01%) PKI
14 10 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.54%) Product Ownership
15 8 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (1.08%) CMDB
16 7 (1.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 131 (20.22%) Windows
2 130 (20.06%) Linux
3 41 (6.33%) Unix
4 29 (4.48%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.93%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.62%) 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
1 341 (52.62%) Cybersecurity
2 213 (32.87%) Security Operations
3 212 (32.72%) Incident Response
4 132 (20.37%) Cloud Security
5 115 (17.75%) CI/CD
6 111 (17.13%) DevOps
7 108 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
8 106 (16.36%) Threat Detection
9 96 (14.81%) Security Architecture
10 93 (14.35%) SOAR
11 91 (14.04%) Zero Trust
12 85 (13.12%) Security Monitoring
13 83 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 80 (12.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 80 (12.35%) Threat Intelligence
15 79 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
16 77 (11.88%) ITSM
17 74 (11.42%) Stakeholder Management
18 71 (10.96%) Data Loss Prevention
19 68 (10.49%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 155 (23.92%) Python
2 129 (19.91%) PowerShell
3 56 (8.64%) Bash
4 44 (6.79%) Kusto Query Language
5 16 (2.47%) SQL
6 13 (2.01%) Java
6 13 (2.01%) Search Processing Language
7 12 (1.85%) Bicep
8 7 (1.08%) 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
1 274 (42.28%) Security Cleared
2 186 (28.70%) SC Cleared
3 140 (21.60%) CISSP
4 78 (12.04%) CISM
5 75 (11.57%) DV Cleared
6 62 (9.57%) Degree
7 61 (9.41%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (5.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 34 (5.25%) GIAC
10 26 (4.01%) AWS Certification
11 23 (3.55%) CompTIA Security+
12 22 (3.40%) CCNP
13 21 (3.24%) Azure Certification
13 21 (3.24%) CCSP
14 19 (2.93%) CEH
15 18 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
16 15 (2.31%) GCIH
17 14 (2.16%) CompTIA CySA+
17 14 (2.16%) SANS
18 12 (1.85%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (25.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 159 (24.54%) NIST
3 72 (11.11%) GDPR
4 42 (6.48%) NCSC
5 28 (4.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 28 (4.32%) PCI DSS
6 16 (2.47%) GRC
6 16 (2.47%) PMO
7 14 (2.16%) HIPAA
7 14 (2.16%) SLA
7 14 (2.16%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.54%) NIST 800
8 10 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.39%) ISO 31000
10 8 (1.23%) QA
11 6 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.62%) COBIT
System Software
1 104 (16.05%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.93%) Docker
3 14 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.93%) Snort
6 5 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.62%) Squid
8 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.46%) vSphere
9 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 69 (10.65%) Terraform
2 60 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 37 (5.71%) Ansible
4 26 (4.01%) QRadar
5 20 (3.09%) CASB
6 12 (1.85%) Progress Chef
6 12 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.70%) Kibana
8 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.39%) Grafana
10 8 (1.23%) logstash
11 5 (0.77%) CSIRT
11 5 (0.77%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.77%) Nessus
11 5 (0.77%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.62%) Packer
12 4 (0.62%) Puppet
13 3 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.46%) Suricata
14 2 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 167 (25.77%) Microsoft
2 120 (18.52%) Splunk
3 82 (12.65%) CyberArk
4 48 (7.41%) BeyondTrust
5 42 (6.48%) ServiceNow
6 40 (6.17%) CrowdStrike
7 36 (5.56%) Cisco
8 32 (4.94%) Google
9 28 (4.32%) Zscaler
10 26 (4.01%) Qualys
11 24 (3.70%) Fortinet
12 23 (3.55%) Oracle
12 23 (3.55%) Tanium
13 22 (3.40%) Palo Alto
14 21 (3.24%) Tenable
15 18 (2.78%) Red Hat
16 16 (2.47%) Okta
17 14 (2.16%) VMware
18 13 (2.01%) LogRhythm
19 11 (1.70%) ArcSight