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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 189 167
Rank change year-on-year +31 -22 +123
Contract jobs citing SIEM 563 386 565
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.78% 1.36% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.53% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 258 431
10th Percentile £406 £406 £463
25th Percentile £463 £509 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £576 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% -7.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £725
90th Percentile £750 £800 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 2
10th Percentile £41.94 - £63.75
25th Percentile £45.00 £56.25 £65.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -16.36% +4.96%
75th Percentile £80.94 £58.75 £71.88
90th Percentile £85.10 - £73.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -17.86% +6.87%

All Process and 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 27,947 25,226 32,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.49% 88.70% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,782 15,552 22,007
10th Percentile £301 £313 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 831 1,432
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.42
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.14% +24.04%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 +39 246 £594 +3.26% 92
South East +49 127 £492 -12.69% 112
Midlands -29 59 £525 -12.50% 94
West Midlands -23 52 £545 -9.17% 50
South West -11 43 £545 -16.15% 52
North of England -17 42 £500 -16.67% 118
East of England -6 27 £613 +8.89% 79
North West -12 22 £458 -12.86% 64
Yorkshire -35 17 £529 -18.65% 42
East Midlands - 7 £450 - 39
North East -4 3 £400 +14.29% 12
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 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (0.89%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.18%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.07%) Maximo
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 233 (41.39%) Azure
2 195 (34.64%) AWS
3 98 (17.41%) GCP
4 85 (15.10%) Azure Sentinel
5 57 (10.12%) Microsoft 365
6 41 (7.28%) Entra ID
7 22 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (3.02%) Microsoft Purview
8 17 (3.02%) SaaS
9 15 (2.66%) GitHub
10 13 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.60%) PaaS
13 8 (1.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 8 (1.42%) IaaS
13 8 (1.42%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.24%) Azure AKS
14 7 (1.24%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 135 (23.98%) Firewall
2 105 (18.65%) Network Security
3 50 (8.88%) DNS
4 37 (6.57%) TCP/IP
5 36 (6.39%) VPN
6 21 (3.73%) SMTP
6 21 (3.73%) SSL
7 17 (3.02%) HTTP
8 15 (2.66%) DHCP
9 14 (2.49%) FTP
10 13 (2.31%) Intrusion Detection
11 10 (1.78%) Internet
12 8 (1.42%) LAN
12 8 (1.42%) WAN
13 7 (1.24%) BGP
14 6 (1.07%) Wireshark
15 5 (0.89%) DKIM
15 5 (0.89%) DMARC
16 4 (0.71%) OSPF
16 4 (0.71%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.60%) Data Lake
1 9 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (0.71%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.36%) Power BI
4 1 (0.18%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.18%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (1.78%) JIRA
2 8 (1.42%) CircleCI
2 8 (1.42%) GitLab
3 7 (1.24%) Snyk
4 5 (0.89%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.71%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.53%) Git
7 2 (0.36%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.36%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.18%) JUnit
8 1 (0.18%) MLflow
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 205 (36.41%) Social Skills
2 110 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (11.55%) Finance
4 60 (10.66%) Public Sector
5 44 (7.82%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (3.55%) Banking
7 16 (2.84%) Legal
8 13 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.13%) Military
10 11 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.42%) Retail
12 6 (1.07%) Back Office
12 6 (1.07%) Local Government
12 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.71%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.36%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.36%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.18%) Games
15 1 (0.18%) Law
15 1 (0.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 125 (22.20%) Security Engineer
2 121 (21.49%) Analyst
3 97 (17.23%) Architect
4 58 (10.30%) SOC Analyst
5 57 (10.12%) Security Analyst
6 55 (9.77%) Senior
7 50 (8.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 49 (8.70%) SIEM Engineer
9 40 (7.10%) Security Architect
10 32 (5.68%) Lead
11 27 (4.80%) CyberArk Architect
12 25 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 20 (3.55%) Consultant
14 19 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
15 18 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
15 18 (3.20%) SOC Engineer
16 17 (3.02%) Security Manager
17 16 (2.84%) Security Consultant
18 15 (2.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 13 (2.31%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (11.19%) LDAP
2 39 (6.93%) REST
3 27 (4.80%) SOAP
4 19 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (1.60%) SAML
6 6 (1.07%) ARM Templates
6 6 (1.07%) JSON
6 6 (1.07%) Kafka
6 6 (1.07%) Loki
6 6 (1.07%) OpenID
7 5 (0.89%) OAuth
8 4 (0.71%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.71%) Regular Expression
9 3 (0.53%) .NET
9 3 (0.53%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.53%) Node.js
9 3 (0.53%) YAML
10 2 (0.36%) eBPF
10 2 (0.36%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 84 (14.92%) Security Posture
2 82 (14.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 62 (11.01%) Cyber Threat
4 42 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (7.10%) Onboarding
6 35 (6.22%) Management Information System
7 32 (5.68%) Cyber Defence
8 26 (4.62%) Cloud Native
8 26 (4.62%) CSOC
9 24 (4.26%) Operational Technology
10 21 (3.73%) Cyberattack
11 20 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (3.37%) PKI
13 17 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (2.31%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 13 (2.31%) Cyber Security Posture
15 11 (1.95%) Cloud Security Posture
16 9 (1.60%) Data Centre
17 8 (1.42%) Public Cloud
18 6 (1.07%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 103 (18.29%) Windows
2 99 (17.58%) Linux
3 21 (3.73%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.55%) Unix
5 17 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.89%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.71%) CentOS
8 3 (0.53%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.36%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (51.15%) Cybersecurity
2 233 (41.39%) Incident Response
3 175 (31.08%) Security Operations
4 134 (23.80%) SOAR
5 131 (23.27%) Threat Detection
6 123 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (19.36%) Cloud Security
8 82 (14.56%) Vulnerability Management
9 74 (13.14%) CI/CD
10 71 (12.61%) DevOps
11 70 (12.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 63 (11.19%) Security Monitoring
13 62 (11.01%) Infrastructure as Code
13 62 (11.01%) Threat Intelligence
14 61 (10.83%) Information Security
14 61 (10.83%) Threat Modelling
15 57 (10.12%) Identity Access Management
16 56 (9.95%) DevSecOps
16 56 (9.95%) Security Architecture
17 55 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 194 (34.46%) Python
2 185 (32.86%) PowerShell
3 60 (10.66%) Kusto Query Language
4 38 (6.75%) Bash
5 17 (3.02%) Bicep
6 9 (1.60%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.24%) Java
8 5 (0.89%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (0.89%) SQL
9 4 (0.71%) Go
10 3 (0.53%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.36%) C
11 2 (0.36%) C++
11 2 (0.36%) VBScript
12 1 (0.18%) Korn
12 1 (0.18%) R
12 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 239 (42.45%) Security Cleared
2 196 (34.81%) SC Cleared
3 137 (24.33%) CISSP
4 67 (11.90%) CISM
5 58 (10.30%) DV Cleared
6 55 (9.77%) Degree
7 41 (7.28%) CEH
8 40 (7.10%) GIAC
9 38 (6.75%) CompTIA Security+
10 30 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (4.97%) Azure Certification
12 24 (4.26%) GCIH
13 21 (3.73%) GCIA
14 20 (3.55%) AWS Certification
15 17 (3.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 16 (2.84%) CompTIA CySA+
17 14 (2.49%) CCSP
18 13 (2.31%) GCFA
19 12 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
19 12 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (28.24%) NIST
2 144 (25.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 82 (14.56%) GDPR
4 37 (6.57%) PCI DSS
5 29 (5.15%) HIPAA
6 27 (4.80%) NCSC
7 17 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (2.49%) NIST 800
9 10 (1.78%) GRC
9 10 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (1.24%) JSP 440
10 7 (1.24%) PSD2
10 7 (1.24%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.89%) SLA
12 4 (0.71%) QA
13 2 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.18%) Def Stans
14 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 101 (17.94%) Active Directory
2 36 (6.39%) Docker
3 12 (2.13%) Hyper-V
3 12 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.24%) Snort
4 7 (1.24%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.89%) Squid
7 4 (0.71%) Postfix
8 2 (0.36%) NFS
8 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.18%) GPFS
9 1 (0.18%) Lustre
9 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (10.12%) Terraform
2 49 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.15%) QRadar
4 22 (3.91%) Ansible
5 18 (3.20%) Kibana
6 17 (3.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.13%) SCCM
7 12 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.78%) Nessus
8 10 (1.78%) WSUS
9 9 (1.60%) CSIRT
9 9 (1.60%) logstash
10 8 (1.42%) Prometheus
11 6 (1.07%) Grafana
12 5 (0.89%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 4 (0.71%) Nexpose
13 4 (0.71%) Suricata
14 3 (0.53%) CASB
14 3 (0.53%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.53%) Icinga
Vendors
1 189 (33.57%) Microsoft
2 135 (23.98%) Splunk
3 62 (11.01%) CyberArk
4 54 (9.59%) BeyondTrust
5 47 (8.35%) CrowdStrike
6 31 (5.51%) Palo Alto
7 29 (5.15%) Qualys
8 26 (4.62%) Centrify
8 26 (4.62%) Cisco
9 25 (4.44%) Google
10 23 (4.09%) VMware
11 21 (3.73%) LogRhythm
11 21 (3.73%) Tenable
12 20 (3.55%) ArcSight
13 19 (3.37%) Fortinet
13 19 (3.37%) Zscaler
14 17 (3.02%) FireEye
15 16 (2.84%) Forcepoint
16 15 (2.66%) ServiceNow
17 12 (2.13%) Tanium