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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 175 200
Rank change year-on-year -21 +25 -41
Contract jobs citing SIEM 683 466 416
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.68% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.84% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 303 277
10th Percentile £413 £400 £448
25th Percentile £478 £463 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -2.24%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £725
90th Percentile £739 £775 £827
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 11 3
10th Percentile £46.25 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £45.38 £56.25
Median hourly rate £73.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.31% +13.04% -25.81%
75th Percentile £91.27 £85.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £98.16 £100.00 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -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 39,123 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.74% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,918 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -36 254 £563 -3.23% 301
South East +3 174 £575 +15.00% 172
North of England -19 90 £545 +3.07% 103
South West +24 89 £600 - 80
North West -17 64 £540 +15.82% 60
East of England -39 32 £550 - 61
Midlands -68 27 £500 -2.91% 54
Yorkshire -23 26 £550 +2.33% 31
West Midlands -63 25 £500 -3.66% 40
East Midlands -19 1 £475 +2.70% 14
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 8 (1.17%) Confluence
2 7 (1.02%) IIS
3 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.15%) Mendix
5 1 (0.15%) nginx
5 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
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
1 6 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 254 (37.19%) Azure
2 203 (29.72%) AWS
3 99 (14.49%) GCP
4 97 (14.20%) Entra ID
5 73 (10.69%) Azure Sentinel
6 62 (9.08%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (5.42%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (3.95%) SaaS
9 25 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (3.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (3.07%) Azure Logic Apps
12 18 (2.64%) Datadog
13 17 (2.49%) AWS CloudTrail
13 17 (2.49%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (2.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 15 (2.20%) Serverless
16 14 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (1.90%) GitHub
17 13 (1.90%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 113 (16.54%) Firewall
2 102 (14.93%) Network Security
3 53 (7.76%) DNS
4 44 (6.44%) TCP/IP
5 30 (4.39%) DHCP
6 26 (3.81%) WAN
7 25 (3.66%) HTTP
8 24 (3.51%) VPN
9 21 (3.07%) SSL
10 20 (2.93%) Intrusion Detection
11 19 (2.78%) VSAN
12 13 (1.90%) BGP
12 13 (1.90%) SD-WAN
13 12 (1.76%) Internet
14 10 (1.46%) VLAN
15 8 (1.17%) OSPF
15 8 (1.17%) SNMP
16 7 (1.02%) SMTP
16 7 (1.02%) Wireless
17 6 (0.88%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.07%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (0.73%) Hazelcast
4 3 (0.44%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.44%) Power BI
5 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.15%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (2.34%) JIRA
2 14 (2.05%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.76%) Git
4 11 (1.61%) GitLab
5 5 (0.73%) Selenium
6 3 (0.44%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.29%) MSI
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 233 (34.11%) Social Skills
2 97 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (11.86%) Finance
4 78 (11.42%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.88%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (4.25%) Banking
7 20 (2.93%) Military
8 12 (1.76%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.61%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.46%) Local Government
10 10 (1.46%) Retail
11 9 (1.32%) Law
12 8 (1.17%) Legal
13 7 (1.02%) Back Office
13 7 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.44%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 131 (19.18%) Analyst
2 113 (16.54%) Security Engineer
3 83 (12.15%) Architect
4 73 (10.69%) Security Analyst
5 65 (9.52%) SOC Analyst
6 60 (8.78%) Senior
7 55 (8.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 44 (6.44%) Consultant
9 41 (6.00%) Lead
10 34 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
11 30 (4.39%) Security Architect
12 29 (4.25%) SOC Engineer
13 27 (3.95%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 25 (3.66%) Security Specialist
14 25 (3.66%) SIEM Engineer
15 24 (3.51%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 24 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
16 23 (3.37%) Network Engineer
17 22 (3.22%) Operations Analyst
17 22 (3.22%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (14.20%) Terraform
2 63 (9.22%) LDAP
3 18 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (2.20%) SailPoint
5 13 (1.90%) REST
6 11 (1.61%) JSON
6 11 (1.61%) Kafka
7 10 (1.46%) ARM Templates
8 8 (1.17%) Azure Blueprints
9 7 (1.02%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.88%) FIDO
10 6 (0.88%) WebAuthn
11 5 (0.73%) 802.1X
11 5 (0.73%) eBPF
11 5 (0.73%) OAuth
11 5 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.73%) SAML
12 4 (0.59%) CSS
13 3 (0.44%) PyTorch
13 3 (0.44%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 103 (15.08%) Onboarding
2 90 (13.18%) Security Posture
3 74 (10.83%) Cyber Threat
4 70 (10.25%) Security Operations Centre
5 63 (9.22%) Cloud Native
6 45 (6.59%) Management Information System
7 44 (6.44%) Cyber Defence
8 42 (6.15%) Operational Technology
9 27 (3.95%) Cloud Security Posture
9 27 (3.95%) PKI
10 26 (3.81%) Data Centre
11 17 (2.49%) CMDB
12 16 (2.34%) CSOC
13 15 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 14 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (1.76%) SCADA
17 10 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (1.32%) Public Cloud
18 9 (1.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 155 (22.69%) Windows
2 144 (21.08%) Linux
3 40 (5.86%) Unix
4 30 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (4.10%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.02%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.59%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (54.17%) Cybersecurity
2 241 (35.29%) Incident Response
3 212 (31.04%) Security Operations
4 152 (22.25%) Cloud Security
5 149 (21.82%) Security Monitoring
6 145 (21.23%) Threat Detection
7 128 (18.74%) Vulnerability Management
8 119 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 116 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 111 (16.25%) SOAR
11 110 (16.11%) CI/CD
12 109 (15.96%) Threat Intelligence
13 108 (15.81%) Security Architecture
14 100 (14.64%) ITSM
15 96 (14.06%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 96 (14.06%) DevOps
16 92 (13.47%) DevSecOps
17 85 (12.45%) Infrastructure as Code
18 83 (12.15%) Zero Trust
19 81 (11.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 150 (21.96%) Python
2 145 (21.23%) PowerShell
3 86 (12.59%) Bash
4 46 (6.73%) Kusto Query Language
5 23 (3.37%) SQL
6 21 (3.07%) Bicep
6 21 (3.07%) Java
7 20 (2.93%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (1.02%) Perl
9 3 (0.44%) Go
9 3 (0.44%) Groovy
9 3 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.29%) C
10 2 (0.29%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.15%) C#
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 320 (46.85%) Security Cleared
2 190 (27.82%) SC Cleared
3 145 (21.23%) CISSP
4 132 (19.33%) DV Cleared
5 83 (12.15%) CISM
6 61 (8.93%) Degree
7 52 (7.61%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (5.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 38 (5.56%) AWS Certification
10 33 (4.83%) GIAC
11 30 (4.39%) Azure Certification
12 26 (3.81%) CompTIA Security+
13 23 (3.37%) CEH
13 23 (3.37%) GCIH
14 22 (3.22%) CCSP
15 20 (2.93%) SANS
16 17 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
16 17 (2.49%) GSEC
17 16 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
17 16 (2.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (26.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 172 (25.18%) NIST
3 66 (9.66%) GDPR
4 50 (7.32%) NCSC
5 39 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 27 (3.95%) PCI DSS
7 18 (2.64%) GRC
8 15 (2.20%) NIST 800
9 14 (2.05%) PMO
10 12 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (1.76%) SLA
11 10 (1.46%) HIPAA
12 9 (1.32%) ISO 31000
13 8 (1.17%) QA
14 5 (0.73%) COBIT
14 5 (0.73%) Data Quality
14 5 (0.73%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 158 (23.13%) Active Directory
2 39 (5.71%) Docker
3 38 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.93%) Hyper-V
5 18 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (2.64%) VMware NSX
6 17 (2.49%) vSphere
7 8 (1.17%) NFS
8 5 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.59%) Squid
10 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.15%) Samba
11 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 69 (10.10%) Kubernetes
2 54 (7.91%) Ansible
3 33 (4.83%) QRadar
4 21 (3.07%) Progress Chef
5 15 (2.20%) Grafana
6 14 (2.05%) VxRail
7 13 (1.90%) CASB
8 11 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.17%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.88%) Check_MK
10 6 (0.88%) Puppet
11 5 (0.73%) Istio
11 5 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.73%) linkerd
12 4 (0.59%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.59%) Packer
12 4 (0.59%) Podman
13 3 (0.44%) Nessus
13 3 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 193 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 114 (16.69%) Splunk
3 98 (14.35%) CyberArk
4 44 (6.44%) ServiceNow
5 42 (6.15%) VMware
6 41 (6.00%) CrowdStrike
7 33 (4.83%) Google
8 29 (4.25%) BeyondTrust
9 24 (3.51%) Zscaler
10 23 (3.37%) Cisco
11 22 (3.22%) Red Hat
12 21 (3.07%) Oracle
12 21 (3.07%) Palo Alto
13 18 (2.64%) Qualys
14 15 (2.20%) Tenable
15 14 (2.05%) Cribl.io
16 13 (1.90%) ArcSight
17 12 (1.76%) Fortinet
17 12 (1.76%) Rapid7
18 11 (1.61%) Trend Micro