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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 161 182
Rank change year-on-year -39 +21 -21
Contract jobs citing SIEM 654 467 446
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.42% 1.68% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.85% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 301 308
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -8.33% -1.84%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £713
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £560 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 11 4
10th Percentile £45.27 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £83.75 £85.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £98.82 £100.00 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £69.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.54% +4.00% -16.67%

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 38,963 25,189 28,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.89% 90.78% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,049 16,044 18,122
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,587 1,471 1,456
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -29 251 £563 -4.26% 333
South East -8 167 £575 +13.58% 141
North of England -16 101 £540 +2.86% 97
North West -19 72 £513 +12.02% 60
South West +9 70 £620 +3.33% 93
Yorkshire -26 29 £588 +9.30% 25
Midlands -75 25 £500 -2.91% 41
East of England -44 24 £550 - 62
West Midlands -65 22 £500 -3.66% 28
East Midlands -17 2 £550 +18.92% 13
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 (1.38%) Confluence
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.15%) Apache
3 1 (0.15%) Mendix
3 1 (0.15%) nginx
3 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
3 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
1 6 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 240 (36.70%) Azure
2 192 (29.36%) AWS
3 97 (14.83%) GCP
4 92 (14.07%) Entra ID
5 67 (10.24%) Azure Sentinel
6 56 (8.56%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (5.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 32 (4.89%) SaaS
9 23 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (3.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (2.45%) AWS CloudTrail
13 15 (2.29%) Datadog
13 15 (2.29%) GitHub
13 15 (2.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 14 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (2.14%) Serverless
15 13 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 111 (16.97%) Firewall
2 95 (14.53%) Network Security
3 48 (7.34%) DNS
4 42 (6.42%) TCP/IP
5 27 (4.13%) DHCP
6 25 (3.82%) WAN
7 24 (3.67%) SSL
8 22 (3.36%) Intrusion Detection
9 21 (3.21%) VPN
9 21 (3.21%) VSAN
10 15 (2.29%) HTTP
11 14 (2.14%) Internet
12 13 (1.99%) BGP
12 13 (1.99%) SD-WAN
13 10 (1.53%) VLAN
14 8 (1.22%) OSPF
15 7 (1.07%) Cisco Firepower
15 7 (1.07%) SNMP
16 5 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
16 5 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.21%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (0.76%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.76%) Hazelcast
4 4 (0.61%) Power BI
5 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.31%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.15%) Metadata
7 1 (0.15%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (2.60%) JIRA
2 14 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.99%) Git
4 11 (1.68%) GitLab
5 5 (0.76%) Selenium
6 3 (0.46%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.31%) MSI
8 1 (0.15%) Snyk
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 209 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 91 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (13.30%) Finance
4 77 (11.77%) Public Sector
5 57 (8.72%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (4.59%) Banking
7 20 (3.06%) Military
8 12 (1.83%) Retail
9 11 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.53%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.53%) Local Government
11 8 (1.22%) Law
11 8 (1.22%) Legal
11 8 (1.22%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.46%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.46%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.31%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 128 (19.57%) Analyst
2 100 (15.29%) Security Engineer
3 65 (9.94%) Security Analyst
4 61 (9.33%) Architect
5 60 (9.17%) SOC Analyst
6 57 (8.72%) Senior
7 48 (7.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 47 (7.19%) Consultant
9 38 (5.81%) Lead
10 31 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.43%) Security Architect
12 27 (4.13%) SOC Engineer
13 26 (3.98%) Security Manager
14 24 (3.67%) Security Specialist
15 23 (3.52%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 23 (3.52%) Network Engineer
15 23 (3.52%) Operations Analyst
15 23 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
15 23 (3.52%) SIEM Engineer
16 20 (3.06%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (13.61%) Terraform
2 36 (5.50%) LDAP
3 18 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (2.14%) SailPoint
5 13 (1.99%) REST
6 11 (1.68%) Kafka
7 9 (1.38%) ARM Templates
8 7 (1.07%) Azure Blueprints
9 6 (0.92%) 802.1X
10 5 (0.76%) eBPF
10 5 (0.76%) FIDO
10 5 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.76%) WebAuthn
11 4 (0.61%) CSS
11 4 (0.61%) JSON
11 4 (0.61%) OAuth
11 4 (0.61%) SAML
12 3 (0.46%) LangChain
12 3 (0.46%) PyTorch
12 3 (0.46%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 96 (14.68%) Onboarding
2 90 (13.76%) Security Posture
3 68 (10.40%) Security Operations Centre
4 66 (10.09%) Cyber Threat
5 60 (9.17%) Cloud Native
6 42 (6.42%) Operational Technology
7 41 (6.27%) Management Information System
8 37 (5.66%) Cyber Defence
9 29 (4.43%) Cloud Security Posture
10 27 (4.13%) Data Centre
11 26 (3.98%) PKI
12 15 (2.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 14 (2.14%) CMDB
13 14 (2.14%) CSOC
14 13 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (1.68%) SCADA
16 9 (1.38%) Public Cloud
16 9 (1.38%) Replication
16 9 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 145 (22.17%) Windows
2 140 (21.41%) Linux
3 39 (5.96%) Unix
4 28 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (3.98%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.92%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (54.89%) Cybersecurity
2 231 (35.32%) Incident Response
3 200 (30.58%) Security Operations
4 156 (23.85%) Cloud Security
5 137 (20.95%) Security Monitoring
6 134 (20.49%) Threat Detection
7 117 (17.89%) CI/CD
8 116 (17.74%) Vulnerability Management
9 108 (16.51%) SOAR
10 101 (15.44%) Threat Intelligence
11 98 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 94 (14.37%) Stakeholder Management
13 92 (14.07%) DevOps
14 88 (13.46%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 86 (13.15%) Security Architecture
16 83 (12.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 82 (12.54%) Zero Trust
18 81 (12.39%) Incident Management
19 80 (12.23%) ITSM
20 78 (11.93%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 140 (21.41%) Python
2 135 (20.64%) PowerShell
3 83 (12.69%) Bash
4 44 (6.73%) Kusto Query Language
5 22 (3.36%) SQL
6 20 (3.06%) Bicep
7 19 (2.91%) Java
7 19 (2.91%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (1.07%) Perl
9 3 (0.46%) Groovy
9 3 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.31%) C
10 2 (0.31%) Go
10 2 (0.31%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 287 (43.88%) Security Cleared
2 174 (26.61%) SC Cleared
3 146 (22.32%) CISSP
4 107 (16.36%) DV Cleared
5 88 (13.46%) CISM
6 60 (9.17%) Cisco Certification
6 60 (9.17%) Degree
7 44 (6.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 35 (5.35%) AWS Certification
9 29 (4.43%) CompTIA Security+
9 29 (4.43%) GIAC
10 27 (4.13%) Azure Certification
11 25 (3.82%) GCIH
12 23 (3.52%) CEH
13 20 (3.06%) CCSP
14 18 (2.75%) SANS
15 17 (2.60%) CompTIA CySA+
15 17 (2.60%) GSEC
16 16 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
17 15 (2.29%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (25.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 158 (24.16%) NIST
3 72 (11.01%) GDPR
4 50 (7.65%) NCSC
5 33 (5.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 30 (4.59%) PCI DSS
7 17 (2.60%) GRC
8 15 (2.29%) SLA
9 14 (2.14%) PMO
10 13 (1.99%) NIST 800
10 13 (1.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (1.68%) HIPAA
13 9 (1.38%) ISO 31000
14 8 (1.22%) QA
15 7 (1.07%) COBIT
15 7 (1.07%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.76%) Data Quality
17 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
17 2 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 128 (19.57%) Active Directory
2 35 (5.35%) Docker
3 31 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.91%) VMware NSX
5 18 (2.75%) vSphere
6 13 (1.99%) Hyper-V
7 11 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.61%) Squid
10 2 (0.31%) Snort
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 61 (9.33%) Kubernetes
2 55 (8.41%) Ansible
3 30 (4.59%) QRadar
4 23 (3.52%) CASB
5 19 (2.91%) Progress Chef
6 14 (2.14%) VxRail
7 12 (1.83%) Grafana
8 10 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.22%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.92%) Check_MK
11 6 (0.92%) Puppet
12 5 (0.76%) Istio
12 5 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.76%) linkerd
13 4 (0.61%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.61%) Packer
13 4 (0.61%) Podman
14 3 (0.46%) Nessus
14 3 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 181 (27.68%) Microsoft
2 109 (16.67%) Splunk
3 79 (12.08%) CyberArk
4 46 (7.03%) ServiceNow
5 44 (6.73%) CrowdStrike
6 36 (5.50%) VMware
7 33 (5.05%) Google
8 30 (4.59%) BeyondTrust
9 27 (4.13%) Zscaler
10 24 (3.67%) Cisco
11 21 (3.21%) Oracle
11 21 (3.21%) Palo Alto
12 20 (3.06%) Red Hat
12 20 (3.06%) Tanium
13 16 (2.45%) Fortinet
13 16 (2.45%) Qualys
14 15 (2.29%) Tenable
15 14 (2.14%) Cribl.io
16 11 (1.68%) ArcSight
16 11 (1.68%) Trend Micro