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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 184 163
Rank change year-on-year -7 -21 0
Contract jobs citing SIEM 654 426 535
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.55% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.71% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 272 367
10th Percentile £412 £419 £445
25th Percentile £466 £473 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £700
90th Percentile £725 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 12 9
10th Percentile £43.81 £45.08 -
25th Percentile £48.13 £45.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £72.84 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.13% +26.67% -23.33%
75th Percentile £83.75 £85.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £98.29 £98.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £72.84 £57.50
% change year-on-year -12.13% +26.67% -23.33%

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 38,425 24,898 29,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.75% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,067 15,953 19,300
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £424 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,362 1,833
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.21 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.46 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -43 224 £563 -7.22% 120
South East +4 175 £525 +2.44% 90
North of England +11 119 £560 +4.19% 75
North West +18 91 £560 -11.29% 38
South West +7 55 £620 +12.73% 50
Midlands -53 37 £550 +46.67% 27
West Midlands -54 35 £550 +46.67% 22
Yorkshire -22 28 £563 +7.14% 23
East of England -40 26 £550 - 29
East Midlands -12 2 £550 - 5
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 (2.45%) Confluence
2 3 (0.46%) 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 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 231 (35.32%) Azure
2 173 (26.45%) AWS
3 95 (14.53%) Entra ID
4 86 (13.15%) GCP
5 60 (9.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 49 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (5.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 29 (4.43%) SaaS
9 21 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (2.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 16 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (2.29%) Datadog
13 14 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (1.83%) IaaS
14 12 (1.83%) Serverless
15 11 (1.68%) GitHub
16 10 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 121 (18.50%) Firewall
2 104 (15.90%) Network Security
3 43 (6.57%) DNS
4 37 (5.66%) TCP/IP
5 28 (4.28%) VPN
6 26 (3.98%) WAN
7 24 (3.67%) SSL
8 23 (3.52%) Intrusion Detection
9 18 (2.75%) DHCP
9 18 (2.75%) HTTP
10 16 (2.45%) BGP
11 15 (2.29%) SD-WAN
11 15 (2.29%) VSAN
12 14 (2.14%) Internet
13 13 (1.99%) VLAN
14 11 (1.68%) IPsec
14 11 (1.68%) OSPF
15 10 (1.53%) SSH
16 8 (1.22%) SNMP
17 7 (1.07%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.98%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (0.92%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.61%) Hazelcast
4 4 (0.61%) Power BI
5 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.31%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.15%) Metadata
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (3.98%) JIRA
2 13 (1.99%) Git
3 5 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.76%) Snyk
4 4 (0.61%) Selenium
5 3 (0.46%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.31%) GitLab
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.15%) Subversion
7 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 179 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 85 (13.00%) Finance
3 83 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (11.93%) Public Sector
5 56 (8.56%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (4.74%) Banking
7 22 (3.36%) Military
8 10 (1.53%) Retail
9 9 (1.38%) Local Government
9 9 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.22%) Law
11 7 (1.07%) Legal
12 6 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.92%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.46%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 127 (19.42%) Analyst
2 116 (17.74%) Security Engineer
3 70 (10.70%) Architect
4 61 (9.33%) Senior
5 58 (8.87%) SOC Analyst
6 55 (8.41%) Security Analyst
7 44 (6.73%) Consultant
8 42 (6.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 41 (6.27%) Security Architect
10 37 (5.66%) Lead
11 28 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (4.28%) SOC Engineer
12 27 (4.13%) Network Engineer
13 26 (3.98%) SIEM Engineer
14 25 (3.82%) Security Manager
15 24 (3.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 23 (3.52%) Operations Analyst
17 20 (3.06%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 19 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
19 18 (2.75%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (3.06%) LDAP
3 17 (2.60%) SailPoint
4 11 (1.68%) REST
5 10 (1.53%) Kafka
6 9 (1.38%) 802.1X
6 9 (1.38%) LangChain
6 9 (1.38%) PyTorch
6 9 (1.38%) scikit-learn
7 6 (0.92%) Azure Blueprints
8 5 (0.76%) eBPF
8 5 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.61%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.61%) CSS
9 4 (0.61%) JSON
9 4 (0.61%) Middleware
10 3 (0.46%) OAuth
10 3 (0.46%) XML
11 2 (0.31%) OpenID
11 2 (0.31%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 98 (14.98%) Onboarding
2 97 (14.83%) Security Posture
3 70 (10.70%) Cloud Native
4 69 (10.55%) Security Operations Centre
5 53 (8.10%) Cyber Threat
6 48 (7.34%) Operational Technology
7 43 (6.57%) Management Information System
8 35 (5.35%) Cyber Defence
9 26 (3.98%) Cloud Security Posture
10 23 (3.52%) Data Centre
11 19 (2.91%) PKI
12 18 (2.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 17 (2.60%) CSOC
14 14 (2.14%) SCADA
15 10 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.38%) CMDB
16 9 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
17 7 (1.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 7 (1.07%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 147 (22.48%) Linux
2 146 (22.32%) Windows
3 44 (6.73%) Unix
4 29 (4.43%) Windows Server
5 28 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.07%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (53.67%) Cybersecurity
2 216 (33.03%) Incident Response
3 214 (32.72%) Security Operations
4 135 (20.64%) Cloud Security
5 116 (17.74%) CI/CD
6 111 (16.97%) Vulnerability Management
7 109 (16.67%) Threat Detection
8 106 (16.21%) Security Monitoring
9 99 (15.14%) SOAR
10 93 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 92 (14.07%) DevOps
12 90 (13.76%) Security Architecture
13 89 (13.61%) Threat Intelligence
14 87 (13.30%) Zero Trust
15 79 (12.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 76 (11.62%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
17 75 (11.47%) Stakeholder Management
18 69 (10.55%) DevSecOps
18 69 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
18 69 (10.55%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 156 (23.85%) Python
2 129 (19.72%) PowerShell
3 74 (11.31%) Bash
4 46 (7.03%) Kusto Query Language
5 21 (3.21%) SQL
6 20 (3.06%) Java
7 14 (2.14%) Search Processing Language
8 12 (1.83%) Bicep
9 7 (1.07%) Perl
10 3 (0.46%) Groovy
10 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.31%) C
11 2 (0.31%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 269 (41.13%) Security Cleared
2 170 (25.99%) SC Cleared
3 130 (19.88%) CISSP
4 88 (13.46%) DV Cleared
5 70 (10.70%) CISM
6 65 (9.94%) Cisco Certification
7 64 (9.79%) Degree
8 42 (6.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 33 (5.05%) AWS Certification
10 26 (3.98%) GIAC
11 24 (3.67%) Azure Certification
11 24 (3.67%) CCSP
11 24 (3.67%) CompTIA Security+
12 22 (3.36%) CCNP
13 19 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (2.75%) CEH
14 18 (2.75%) CompTIA CySA+
14 18 (2.75%) GCIH
15 16 (2.45%) SANS
16 14 (2.14%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (23.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 142 (21.71%) NIST
3 69 (10.55%) GDPR
4 40 (6.12%) NCSC
5 31 (4.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (3.98%) PCI DSS
7 16 (2.45%) GRC
8 15 (2.29%) HIPAA
8 15 (2.29%) PMO
9 14 (2.14%) SLA
10 11 (1.68%) NIST 800
11 10 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (1.53%) SOC 2
12 9 (1.38%) ISO 31000
13 8 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (1.22%) QA
14 5 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.76%) Data Quality
15 4 (0.61%) COBIT
16 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 111 (16.97%) Active Directory
2 34 (5.20%) Docker
3 25 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.99%) VMware NSX
5 12 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.83%) vSphere
6 11 (1.68%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.92%) Snort
9 4 (0.61%) Squid
10 2 (0.31%) 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 81 (12.39%) Terraform
2 58 (8.87%) Kubernetes
3 47 (7.19%) Ansible
4 30 (4.59%) QRadar
5 20 (3.06%) CASB
6 14 (2.14%) Progress Chef
7 10 (1.53%) Grafana
8 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.22%) VxRail
10 7 (1.07%) CSIRT
11 6 (0.92%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.92%) Puppet
12 5 (0.76%) Check_MK
12 5 (0.76%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.76%) Kibana
13 4 (0.61%) logstash
13 4 (0.61%) Packer
14 3 (0.46%) Suricata
Vendors
1 173 (26.45%) Microsoft
2 104 (15.90%) Splunk
3 68 (10.40%) CyberArk
4 47 (7.19%) ServiceNow
5 41 (6.27%) CrowdStrike
6 38 (5.81%) BeyondTrust
7 35 (5.35%) Google
8 34 (5.20%) Cisco
9 30 (4.59%) Zscaler
10 29 (4.43%) VMware
11 24 (3.67%) Oracle
11 24 (3.67%) Qualys
12 22 (3.36%) Fortinet
13 20 (3.06%) Palo Alto
13 20 (3.06%) Red Hat
14 19 (2.91%) Tanium
14 19 (2.91%) Tenable
15 16 (2.45%) Okta
16 11 (1.68%) LogRhythm
16 11 (1.68%) Trend Micro