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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 194 168
Rank change year-on-year +28 -26 +58
Contract jobs citing SIEM 576 352 554
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.36% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.52% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 225 405
10th Percentile £413 £408 £425
25th Percentile £463 £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 £582 £600
% change year-on-year -5.42% -3.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 6
10th Percentile £26.80 - -
25th Percentile £40.52 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £48.72 £54.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% +36.25% -46.20%
75th Percentile £76.25 £63.25 £56.88
90th Percentile £84.88 - £68.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +19.27% +36.25% -46.20%

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 30,243 23,214 32,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.45% 89.92% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,352 14,394 21,863
10th Percentile £311 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 1,888 728 2,002
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.32
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £65.00 £61.04
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.33 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% -

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 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 18 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 18 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 +14 248 £600 +4.35% 69
South East +40 146 £492 -11.35% 53
Midlands -32 69 £525 -8.70% 26
West Midlands -37 58 £550 -4.35% 20
South West -9 46 £537 -10.50% 19
North of England -38 36 £500 -16.67% 49
North West -17 19 £500 -10.71% 33
East of England -21 15 £575 +2.22% 21
Yorkshire -47 14 £520 -16.80% 11
East Midlands - 11 £438 - 6
North East -10 3 £400 +14.29% 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 9 (1.56%) OpenStack
2 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.87%) Confluence
4 1 (0.17%) nginx
4 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.39%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 230 (39.93%) Azure
2 192 (33.33%) AWS
3 111 (19.27%) GCP
4 79 (13.72%) Azure Sentinel
5 53 (9.20%) Entra ID
6 50 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (3.99%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
9 21 (3.65%) OpenShift
10 18 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (1.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 11 (1.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 11 (1.91%) SaaS
13 10 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (1.74%) GitHub
14 9 (1.56%) Azure AKS
14 9 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (1.39%) PaaS
16 7 (1.22%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 117 (20.31%) Firewall
2 94 (16.32%) Network Security
3 42 (7.29%) DNS
4 38 (6.60%) VPN
5 36 (6.25%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.60%) DHCP
7 14 (2.43%) SSL
8 12 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
9 11 (1.91%) SMTP
10 10 (1.74%) BGP
11 9 (1.56%) OSPF
12 8 (1.39%) Internet
12 8 (1.39%) WAN
13 7 (1.22%) LAN
13 7 (1.22%) Wireshark
14 6 (1.04%) HTTP
14 6 (1.04%) SD-WAN
15 5 (0.87%) DKIM
15 5 (0.87%) FTP
15 5 (0.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (1.74%) Data Lake
3 8 (1.39%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.52%) Power BI
5 2 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.17%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.08%) JIRA
3 7 (1.22%) GitLab
4 4 (0.69%) Metasploit
5 3 (0.52%) Git
6 2 (0.35%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.35%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.35%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.35%) Snyk
7 1 (0.17%) AppScan
7 1 (0.17%) JUnit
7 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 204 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 78 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (12.15%) Public Sector
4 59 (10.24%) Documentation Skills
5 58 (10.07%) Finance
6 15 (2.60%) Banking
7 14 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (2.43%) Military
8 11 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.56%) Legal
11 6 (1.04%) Retail
12 5 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.69%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.52%) Local Government
15 2 (0.35%) Back Office
15 2 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.17%) Advertising
16 1 (0.17%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.17%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 119 (20.66%) Architect
2 117 (20.31%) Analyst
3 109 (18.92%) Security Engineer
4 63 (10.94%) Senior
5 56 (9.72%) SIEM Engineer
6 55 (9.55%) Security Analyst
7 47 (8.16%) CyberArk Architect
8 46 (7.99%) SOC Analyst
9 40 (6.94%) Security Architect
10 35 (6.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 26 (4.51%) Consultant
11 26 (4.51%) Senior Analyst
12 23 (3.99%) Lead
13 21 (3.65%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 20 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (2.60%) Security Manager
17 13 (2.26%) Operations Analyst
17 13 (2.26%) Security Consultant
18 12 (2.08%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.89%) LDAP
2 49 (8.51%) REST
3 35 (6.08%) SOAP
4 33 (5.73%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (4.51%) SAML
6 22 (3.82%) OpenID
7 8 (1.39%) ARM Templates
7 8 (1.39%) Kafka
7 8 (1.39%) OAuth
8 7 (1.22%) OAuth2
9 6 (1.04%) JSON
10 4 (0.69%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.69%) Regular Expression
11 3 (0.52%) .NET
11 3 (0.52%) Lightning Web Components
11 3 (0.52%) Node.js
11 3 (0.52%) SailPoint
12 2 (0.35%) ADO
12 2 (0.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (15.10%) Security Posture
2 72 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 64 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 48 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (6.94%) Cyber Threat
6 34 (5.90%) Cloud Native
7 29 (5.03%) Cyber Defence
8 27 (4.69%) Management Information System
9 24 (4.17%) Operational Technology
10 21 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 20 (3.47%) PKI
12 14 (2.43%) CSOC
12 14 (2.43%) Cyberattack
13 13 (2.26%) Cyber Security Posture
14 9 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.56%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.56%) Product Ownership
15 8 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
15 8 (1.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 5 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 92 (15.97%) Windows
2 91 (15.80%) Linux
3 26 (4.51%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.30%) Unix
5 15 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.69%) CentOS
7 4 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.35%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.35%) 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
1 282 (48.96%) Cybersecurity
2 207 (35.94%) Incident Response
3 182 (31.60%) Security Operations
4 130 (22.57%) SOAR
5 128 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 121 (21.01%) Threat Detection
7 113 (19.62%) Cloud Security
8 95 (16.49%) DevOps
9 89 (15.45%) CI/CD
10 82 (14.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 74 (12.85%) Vulnerability Management
12 69 (11.98%) Infrastructure as Code
13 66 (11.46%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 63 (10.94%) Zero Trust
15 62 (10.76%) Threat Modelling
16 61 (10.59%) Security Monitoring
16 61 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
17 58 (10.07%) Security Architecture
18 57 (9.90%) Identity Access Management
18 57 (9.90%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 186 (32.29%) Python
2 172 (29.86%) PowerShell
3 56 (9.72%) Kusto Query Language
4 36 (6.25%) Bash
5 21 (3.65%) Bicep
6 9 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.39%) SQL
8 7 (1.22%) Java
9 4 (0.69%) Go
9 4 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.35%) C++
12 1 (0.17%) C
12 1 (0.17%) Lisp
12 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 277 (48.09%) Security Cleared
2 226 (39.24%) SC Cleared
3 129 (22.40%) CISSP
4 71 (12.33%) CISM
5 62 (10.76%) DV Cleared
6 45 (7.81%) Degree
7 41 (7.12%) GIAC
8 34 (5.90%) CEH
9 30 (5.21%) CompTIA Security+
10 28 (4.86%) Azure Certification
11 25 (4.34%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (2.95%) AWS Certification
13 16 (2.78%) GCIH
14 15 (2.60%) CompTIA CySA+
14 15 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (2.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (2.43%) GCIA
16 13 (2.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 12 (2.08%) CCSP
17 12 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (27.26%) NIST
2 146 (25.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 77 (13.37%) GDPR
4 40 (6.94%) NCSC
5 32 (5.56%) PCI DSS
6 21 (3.65%) HIPAA
7 17 (2.95%) NIST 800
8 16 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (2.43%) GRC
10 10 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (1.74%) SOC 2
11 7 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (1.22%) JSP 440
12 6 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.69%) QA
14 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.52%) PSD2
14 3 (0.52%) RMADS
15 2 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 108 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.34%) Docker
3 14 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.26%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.39%) Snort
5 8 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.39%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.69%) Postfix
6 4 (0.69%) Squid
7 2 (0.35%) NFS
7 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.35%) vSphere
8 1 (0.17%) GPFS
8 1 (0.17%) Lustre
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 68 (11.81%) Kubernetes
2 65 (11.28%) Terraform
3 30 (5.21%) Ansible
4 29 (5.03%) Kibana
5 18 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (2.95%) logstash
7 16 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (2.60%) QRadar
9 10 (1.74%) Nessus
10 9 (1.56%) SCCM
11 8 (1.39%) CSIRT
11 8 (1.39%) WSUS
12 6 (1.04%) Grafana
13 3 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.52%) Argo
13 3 (0.52%) CASB
13 3 (0.52%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.52%) Nexpose
13 3 (0.52%) Suricata
Vendors
1 159 (27.60%) Microsoft
2 132 (22.92%) Splunk
3 87 (15.10%) CyberArk
4 67 (11.63%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.90%) Centrify
6 27 (4.69%) CrowdStrike
6 27 (4.69%) Tenable
7 26 (4.51%) Palo Alto
8 24 (4.17%) Cisco
9 23 (3.99%) Qualys
10 22 (3.82%) VMware
11 20 (3.47%) LogRhythm
12 18 (3.13%) FireEye
13 17 (2.95%) Tanium
14 16 (2.78%) Zscaler
15 15 (2.60%) ServiceNow
16 14 (2.43%) Google
17 13 (2.26%) Fortinet
18 10 (1.74%) IBM
18 10 (1.74%) Red Hat