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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 168 170
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 -10
Contract jobs citing SIEM 683 460 480
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.49% 1.66% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.83% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 295 337
10th Percentile £413 £417 £445
25th Percentile £475 £471 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £666 £713
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £569 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +3.45% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 12 5
10th Percentile £45.03 £45.08 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate £66.60 £72.84 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +7.91% -12.90%
75th Percentile £83.75 £85.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £98.82 £98.50 £77.30
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £72.84 £67.50
% change year-on-year -7.33% +7.91% -12.90%

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 38,995 25,146 28,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.84% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,229 16,020 18,598
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 1,434 1,645
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.60 £50.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -39.40% -1.19%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -31 242 £568 -5.42% 340
South East +4 179 £560 +9.27% 141
North of England +9 124 £565 +7.62% 112
North West +11 95 £565 +21.18% 71
South West -2 65 £645 -8.67% 78
Midlands -66 30 £600 +16.50% 43
Yorkshire -24 29 £563 +4.65% 25
East of England -37 27 £550 - 35
West Midlands -66 27 £600 +16.50% 34
East Midlands -15 2 £550 - 9
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 17 (2.49%) Confluence
2 2 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.15%) Apache
3 1 (0.15%) Mendix
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.15%) nginx
3 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 262 (38.36%) Azure
2 202 (29.58%) AWS
3 101 (14.79%) Entra ID
4 98 (14.35%) GCP
5 68 (9.96%) Azure Sentinel
6 54 (7.91%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (5.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 33 (4.83%) SaaS
9 25 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 21 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (2.93%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (2.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 16 (2.34%) Datadog
14 16 (2.34%) GitHub
15 14 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (2.05%) AWS CloudTrail
16 13 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (1.90%) Serverless
17 11 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 127 (18.59%) Firewall
2 104 (15.23%) Network Security
3 52 (7.61%) DNS
4 45 (6.59%) TCP/IP
5 26 (3.81%) DHCP
5 26 (3.81%) Intrusion Detection
5 26 (3.81%) WAN
6 25 (3.66%) VPN
7 24 (3.51%) SSL
8 21 (3.07%) VSAN
9 19 (2.78%) HTTP
10 14 (2.05%) BGP
10 14 (2.05%) Internet
10 14 (2.05%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.90%) VLAN
12 9 (1.32%) IPsec
12 9 (1.32%) OSPF
13 7 (1.02%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (1.02%) NGFW
13 7 (1.02%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.22%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
2 7 (1.02%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.73%) Hazelcast
3 5 (0.73%) Power BI
4 3 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.29%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.29%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.15%) Metadata
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (3.81%) JIRA
2 13 (1.90%) Git
2 13 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.46%) GitLab
4 5 (0.73%) Selenium
4 5 (0.73%) Snyk
5 3 (0.44%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.29%) MSI
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) Subversion
7 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 201 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 94 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
2 94 (13.76%) Finance
3 80 (11.71%) Public Sector
4 57 (8.35%) Documentation Skills
5 34 (4.98%) Banking
6 19 (2.78%) Military
7 12 (1.76%) Retail
8 11 (1.61%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.46%) Local Government
10 9 (1.32%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.17%) Law
11 8 (1.17%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.02%) Legal
13 6 (0.88%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.29%) Digital Health
15 2 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 128 (18.74%) Analyst
2 115 (16.84%) Security Engineer
3 70 (10.25%) Architect
4 64 (9.37%) Senior
5 61 (8.93%) Security Analyst
6 59 (8.64%) SOC Analyst
7 47 (6.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 46 (6.73%) Consultant
9 39 (5.71%) Lead
10 38 (5.56%) Security Architect
11 32 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 28 (4.10%) SOC Engineer
13 27 (3.95%) Security Manager
14 24 (3.51%) Network Engineer
14 24 (3.51%) SIEM Engineer
15 23 (3.37%) Operations Analyst
16 22 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
17 21 (3.07%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 21 (3.07%) Security Specialist
18 20 (2.93%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.10%) LDAP
2 19 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (2.49%) SailPoint
4 13 (1.90%) REST
5 12 (1.76%) Kafka
6 9 (1.32%) LangChain
6 9 (1.32%) PyTorch
6 9 (1.32%) scikit-learn
7 8 (1.17%) 802.1X
8 7 (1.02%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.88%) Azure Blueprints
10 5 (0.73%) eBPF
10 5 (0.73%) JSON
10 5 (0.73%) OAuth
10 5 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.59%) CSS
11 4 (0.59%) FIDO
11 4 (0.59%) Middleware
11 4 (0.59%) SAML
11 4 (0.59%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 103 (15.08%) Security Posture
2 96 (14.06%) Onboarding
3 74 (10.83%) Cloud Native
4 73 (10.69%) Security Operations Centre
5 62 (9.08%) Cyber Threat
6 49 (7.17%) Operational Technology
7 43 (6.30%) Management Information System
8 36 (5.27%) Cyber Defence
9 31 (4.54%) Cloud Security Posture
10 27 (3.95%) Data Centre
11 26 (3.81%) PKI
12 19 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 16 (2.34%) CSOC
14 14 (2.05%) CMDB
14 14 (2.05%) SCADA
15 12 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
17 10 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
18 9 (1.32%) Public Cloud
18 9 (1.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 150 (21.96%) Linux
2 149 (21.82%) Windows
3 40 (5.86%) Unix
4 31 (4.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (3.81%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.02%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.73%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.59%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (53.59%) Cybersecurity
2 224 (32.80%) Incident Response
3 212 (31.04%) Security Operations
4 162 (23.72%) Cloud Security
5 133 (19.47%) CI/CD
6 127 (18.59%) Threat Detection
7 125 (18.30%) Security Monitoring
8 122 (17.86%) Vulnerability Management
9 111 (16.25%) SOAR
10 99 (14.49%) Threat Intelligence
11 98 (14.35%) DevOps
12 97 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 97 (14.20%) Security Architecture
13 92 (13.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 89 (13.03%) Zero Trust
15 84 (12.30%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 84 (12.30%) DevSecOps
15 84 (12.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 83 (12.15%) Infrastructure as Code
17 80 (11.71%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 163 (23.87%) Python
2 141 (20.64%) PowerShell
3 86 (12.59%) Bash
4 48 (7.03%) Kusto Query Language
5 27 (3.95%) SQL
6 21 (3.07%) Java
7 19 (2.78%) Search Processing Language
8 18 (2.64%) Bicep
9 7 (1.02%) Perl
10 3 (0.44%) Groovy
10 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.29%) C
11 2 (0.29%) Go
11 2 (0.29%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 283 (41.43%) Security Cleared
2 172 (25.18%) SC Cleared
3 151 (22.11%) CISSP
4 103 (15.08%) DV Cleared
5 88 (12.88%) CISM
6 67 (9.81%) Cisco Certification
7 63 (9.22%) Degree
8 46 (6.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 38 (5.56%) AWS Certification
10 29 (4.25%) GIAC
11 28 (4.10%) Azure Certification
12 27 (3.95%) CompTIA Security+
13 24 (3.51%) GCIH
14 22 (3.22%) CCSP
15 21 (3.07%) CEH
16 20 (2.93%) CCNP
17 18 (2.64%) CompTIA CySA+
18 16 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
18 16 (2.34%) GSEC
18 16 (2.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (23.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 154 (22.55%) NIST
3 76 (11.13%) GDPR
4 49 (7.17%) NCSC
5 32 (4.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 32 (4.69%) PCI DSS
6 15 (2.20%) GRC
6 15 (2.20%) HIPAA
6 15 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (2.20%) SLA
7 14 (2.05%) PMO
8 12 (1.76%) NIST 800
9 11 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (1.61%) SOC 2
10 9 (1.32%) ISO 31000
11 8 (1.17%) QA
12 7 (1.02%) COBIT
13 5 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.73%) Data Quality
14 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 124 (18.16%) Active Directory
2 40 (5.86%) Docker
3 31 (4.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.78%) VMware NSX
5 18 (2.64%) vSphere
6 13 (1.90%) Hyper-V
7 11 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.59%) Snort
9 4 (0.59%) Squid
10 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) NFS
11 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.15%) Samba
11 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 92 (13.47%) Terraform
2 69 (10.10%) Kubernetes
3 56 (8.20%) Ansible
4 30 (4.39%) QRadar
5 24 (3.51%) CASB
6 20 (2.93%) Progress Chef
7 14 (2.05%) VxRail
8 13 (1.90%) Grafana
9 10 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.17%) Prometheus
12 6 (0.88%) Check_MK
12 6 (0.88%) Puppet
13 5 (0.73%) CSIRT
13 5 (0.73%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.59%) Istio
14 4 (0.59%) linkerd
14 4 (0.59%) Packer
14 4 (0.59%) Podman
Vendors
1 190 (27.82%) Microsoft
2 110 (16.11%) Splunk
3 72 (10.54%) CyberArk
4 49 (7.17%) ServiceNow
5 41 (6.00%) CrowdStrike
6 39 (5.71%) Google
7 36 (5.27%) VMware
8 33 (4.83%) BeyondTrust
9 31 (4.54%) Zscaler
10 30 (4.39%) Cisco
11 23 (3.37%) Qualys
12 22 (3.22%) Red Hat
13 21 (3.07%) Fortinet
13 21 (3.07%) Oracle
14 20 (2.93%) Palo Alto
14 20 (2.93%) Tanium
14 20 (2.93%) Tenable
15 16 (2.34%) Okta
16 14 (2.05%) Cribl.io
17 11 (1.61%) Trend Micro