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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 192 163
Rank change year-on-year +32 -29 +49
Contract jobs citing SIEM 587 346 569
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.36% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.51% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 224 416
10th Percentile £413 £411 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £835 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 6
10th Percentile £26.80 £49.21 -
25th Percentile £40.52 £54.40 -
Median hourly rate £48.72 £67.59 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.92% +68.97% -45.13%
75th Percentile £76.25 £76.57 £56.88
90th Percentile £84.88 £79.24 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.59 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.83% +68.97% -45.13%

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 30,532 22,872 32,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.28% 90.11% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,556 14,324 21,897
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £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 1,892 747 2,040
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.48 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
75th Percentile £63.40 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.18 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £33.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -21.91% -2.94% -2.86%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +23 246 £620 +7.83% 70
South East +40 147 £500 -11.82% 54
Midlands -37 69 £525 -8.06% 22
West Midlands -45 59 £550 -3.68% 18
North of England -37 46 £540 -10.00% 50
South West -9 44 £537 -10.50% 14
North West -7 31 £575 +9.52% 40
East of England -16 17 £540 -6.09% 15
Yorkshire -52 12 £510 -18.40% 7
East Midlands - 10 £438 - 4
North East -12 3 £400 +14.29% 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 9 (1.53%) Confluence
1 9 (1.53%) OpenStack
2 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.17%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.17%) nginx
3 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.36%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 242 (41.23%) Azure
2 203 (34.58%) AWS
3 112 (19.08%) GCP
4 78 (13.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 59 (10.05%) Entra ID
6 46 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (4.26%) OpenShift
8 22 (3.75%) Microsoft Purview
9 21 (3.58%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (1.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 11 (1.87%) SaaS
14 10 (1.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 10 (1.70%) GitHub
15 9 (1.53%) Azure AKS
15 9 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (1.53%) Serverless
16 8 (1.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 124 (21.12%) Firewall
2 93 (15.84%) Network Security
3 41 (6.98%) DNS
3 41 (6.98%) VPN
4 36 (6.13%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.56%) DHCP
6 14 (2.39%) SSL
7 13 (2.21%) Intrusion Detection
8 11 (1.87%) SMTP
9 10 (1.70%) BGP
10 9 (1.53%) OSPF
11 8 (1.36%) Internet
11 8 (1.36%) WAN
12 7 (1.19%) IPsec
12 7 (1.19%) LAN
12 7 (1.19%) MPLS
12 7 (1.19%) Wireshark
13 6 (1.02%) HTTP
13 6 (1.02%) SD-WAN
13 6 (1.02%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (1.87%) Data Lake
3 9 (1.53%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.51%) Power BI
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.17%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.17%) Redis
7 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (2.90%) JIRA
2 16 (2.73%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.19%) GitLab
4 6 (1.02%) Snyk
5 4 (0.68%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.51%) Git
7 2 (0.34%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.34%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.34%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.17%) AppScan
8 1 (0.17%) JUnit
8 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 207 (35.26%) Social Skills
2 75 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (11.58%) Public Sector
4 66 (11.24%) Finance
5 58 (9.88%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (2.73%) Banking
7 14 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.04%) Military
9 11 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.53%) Legal
12 5 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.85%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.85%) Retail
13 4 (0.68%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.34%) Back Office
14 2 (0.34%) Local Government
14 2 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Advertising
15 1 (0.17%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 127 (21.64%) Architect
2 115 (19.59%) Analyst
3 113 (19.25%) Security Engineer
4 67 (11.41%) Senior
5 55 (9.37%) SIEM Engineer
6 51 (8.69%) Security Analyst
7 48 (8.18%) SOC Analyst
8 47 (8.01%) CyberArk Architect
9 45 (7.67%) Security Architect
10 29 (4.94%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 27 (4.60%) Senior Analyst
12 24 (4.09%) Consultant
13 22 (3.75%) Lead
14 19 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
14 19 (3.24%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 16 (2.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (2.56%) Security Manager
17 14 (2.39%) Cloud Engineer
18 13 (2.21%) Operations Analyst
19 12 (2.04%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.63%) LDAP
2 51 (8.69%) REST
3 35 (5.96%) SOAP
4 32 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (4.43%) SAML
6 22 (3.75%) OpenID
7 9 (1.53%) Kafka
8 8 (1.36%) ARM Templates
8 8 (1.36%) OAuth
9 7 (1.19%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.19%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.02%) JSON
10 6 (1.02%) LangChain
10 6 (1.02%) SailPoint
10 6 (1.02%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.68%) 802.1X
11 4 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.68%) Regular Expression
12 3 (0.51%) Lightning Web Components
12 3 (0.51%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 93 (15.84%) Security Posture
2 73 (12.44%) Security Operations Centre
3 62 (10.56%) Onboarding
4 48 (8.18%) Enterprise Software
5 46 (7.84%) Cloud Native
6 41 (6.98%) Cyber Threat
7 30 (5.11%) Cyber Defence
7 30 (5.11%) Management Information System
7 30 (5.11%) Operational Technology
8 21 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (3.41%) PKI
10 14 (2.39%) CSOC
10 14 (2.39%) Cyberattack
11 13 (2.21%) Cyber Security Posture
12 12 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
13 9 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.53%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.53%) Product Ownership
14 8 (1.36%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 8 (1.36%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 93 (15.84%) Linux
1 93 (15.84%) Windows
2 26 (4.43%) Windows Server
3 19 (3.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (3.07%) Unix
5 6 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.68%) CentOS
7 3 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.34%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (48.21%) Cybersecurity
2 200 (34.07%) Incident Response
3 177 (30.15%) Security Operations
4 130 (22.15%) SOAR
5 128 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
6 123 (20.95%) Cloud Security
7 121 (20.61%) Threat Detection
8 100 (17.04%) DevOps
9 97 (16.52%) CI/CD
10 83 (14.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 83 (14.14%) Vulnerability Management
11 71 (12.10%) Infrastructure as Code
12 68 (11.58%) Security Architecture
13 66 (11.24%) DevSecOps
13 66 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
13 66 (11.24%) Threat Modelling
14 65 (11.07%) Zero Trust
15 63 (10.73%) MITRE ATT&CK
16 60 (10.22%) Identity Access Management
17 57 (9.71%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 197 (33.56%) Python
2 172 (29.30%) PowerShell
3 57 (9.71%) Kusto Query Language
4 37 (6.30%) Bash
5 21 (3.58%) Bicep
6 12 (2.04%) SQL
7 10 (1.70%) Java
8 9 (1.53%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.68%) Go
10 3 (0.51%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.34%) C++
12 1 (0.17%) C
12 1 (0.17%) Lisp
12 1 (0.17%) R
12 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 275 (46.85%) Security Cleared
2 223 (37.99%) SC Cleared
3 133 (22.66%) CISSP
4 73 (12.44%) CISM
5 58 (9.88%) DV Cleared
6 45 (7.67%) Degree
7 40 (6.81%) GIAC
8 31 (5.28%) CEH
9 30 (5.11%) Azure Certification
10 29 (4.94%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (4.77%) CompTIA Security+
12 22 (3.75%) AWS Certification
13 17 (2.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 15 (2.56%) CCSP
14 15 (2.56%) CompTIA CySA+
14 15 (2.56%) GCIH
15 14 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
16 13 (2.21%) GCIA
16 13 (2.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 12 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (26.75%) NIST
2 144 (24.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 81 (13.80%) GDPR
4 39 (6.64%) NCSC
5 33 (5.62%) PCI DSS
6 23 (3.92%) HIPAA
7 17 (2.90%) NIST 800
8 14 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (2.39%) GRC
9 11 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (1.70%) SOC 2
11 7 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (1.19%) JSP 440
12 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.68%) QA
14 3 (0.51%) COBIT
14 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.51%) PSD2
14 3 (0.51%) RMADS
System Software
1 109 (18.57%) Active Directory
2 30 (5.11%) Docker
3 14 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.36%) Snort
5 8 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.36%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.68%) Postfix
6 4 (0.68%) Squid
7 2 (0.34%) NFS
7 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.34%) vSphere
8 1 (0.17%) GPFS
8 1 (0.17%) Lustre
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 76 (12.95%) Kubernetes
2 67 (11.41%) Terraform
3 27 (4.60%) Ansible
3 27 (4.60%) Kibana
4 17 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (2.56%) logstash
7 14 (2.39%) QRadar
8 10 (1.70%) Nessus
9 9 (1.53%) SCCM
10 8 (1.36%) WSUS
11 7 (1.19%) Grafana
12 6 (1.02%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.51%) CASB
13 3 (0.51%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.51%) Icinga
13 3 (0.51%) Nexpose
13 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.51%) Suricata
Vendors
1 160 (27.26%) Microsoft
2 131 (22.32%) Splunk
3 89 (15.16%) CyberArk
4 68 (11.58%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.79%) Centrify
6 31 (5.28%) Tenable
7 30 (5.11%) Qualys
8 26 (4.43%) Cisco
9 25 (4.26%) Palo Alto
10 23 (3.92%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (3.75%) VMware
12 21 (3.58%) Google
13 18 (3.07%) LogRhythm
14 17 (2.90%) ServiceNow
15 16 (2.73%) FireEye
15 16 (2.73%) Tanium
15 16 (2.73%) Zscaler
16 14 (2.39%) IBM
17 13 (2.21%) Red Hat
18 11 (1.87%) Fortinet