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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 195 157
Rank change year-on-year +12 -38 +1
Contract jobs citing SIEM 666 394 569
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.45% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.60% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 251 389
10th Percentile £413 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £468 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £630 £656 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £595
% change year-on-year - -7.56% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 8
10th Percentile £42.22 £45.75 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £55.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £58.75 £80.68 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +65.49% -35.00%
75th Percentile £82.19 £85.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £84.63 £101.10 £76.78
UK median hourly rate £58.75 £80.68 £48.75
% change year-on-year -27.18% +65.49% -35.00%

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 38,535 24,596 31,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.57% 90.73% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,284 15,811 20,551
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,270 2,240
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.94 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.60 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -12 236 £563 -5.26% 95
South East +14 173 £525 +5.00% 109
North of England +4 114 £558 -7.08% 65
North West +12 86 £558 -8.79% 33
South West +4 50 £606 +10.23% 52
Midlands -48 48 £545 +12.37% 23
West Midlands -59 42 £550 +13.40% 18
Yorkshire -33 28 £563 -6.25% 20
East of England -42 23 £550 - 30
East Midlands -16 6 £442 - 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 15 (2.25%) Confluence
2 5 (0.75%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 229 (34.38%) Azure
2 169 (25.38%) AWS
3 94 (14.11%) Entra ID
4 89 (13.36%) GCP
5 61 (9.16%) Azure Sentinel
6 47 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (4.95%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (4.05%) SaaS
9 22 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (2.55%) OpenShift
11 16 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (2.10%) Datadog
14 13 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (1.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 12 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
16 11 (1.65%) GitHub
16 11 (1.65%) IaaS
16 11 (1.65%) Serverless
17 10 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 115 (17.27%) Firewall
2 111 (16.67%) Network Security
3 42 (6.31%) DNS
4 34 (5.11%) TCP/IP
5 31 (4.65%) VPN
6 26 (3.90%) WAN
7 24 (3.60%) SSL
8 22 (3.30%) Intrusion Detection
9 18 (2.70%) BGP
10 17 (2.55%) HTTP
11 16 (2.40%) SD-WAN
12 15 (2.25%) Internet
13 14 (2.10%) DHCP
14 13 (1.95%) OSPF
14 13 (1.95%) VLAN
15 12 (1.80%) IPsec
16 10 (1.50%) VSAN
17 9 (1.35%) SSH
18 8 (1.20%) NGFW
18 8 (1.20%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.75%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.60%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.60%) Power BI
4 3 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.30%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.15%) Metadata
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (3.90%) JIRA
2 16 (2.40%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.95%) Git
4 6 (0.90%) Snyk
5 3 (0.45%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.30%) GitLab
7 1 (0.15%) AppScan
7 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.15%) Subversion
7 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 185 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 94 (14.11%) Finance
3 81 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 80 (12.01%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (10.06%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (4.35%) Banking
7 20 (3.00%) Military
8 13 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.50%) Local Government
10 9 (1.35%) Retail
11 7 (1.05%) Legal
12 6 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.90%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.60%) Law
14 3 (0.45%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.30%) Advertising
15 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (19.67%) Analyst
2 111 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 85 (12.76%) Architect
4 61 (9.16%) Senior
5 58 (8.71%) Security Analyst
5 58 (8.71%) SOC Analyst
6 44 (6.61%) Consultant
6 44 (6.61%) Security Architect
7 38 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 38 (5.71%) Lead
8 33 (4.95%) SIEM Engineer
9 27 (4.05%) Network Engineer
10 26 (3.90%) Security Manager
11 25 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 24 (3.60%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 24 (3.60%) SOC Engineer
13 23 (3.45%) Operations Analyst
14 20 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
15 19 (2.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 19 (2.85%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.95%) LDAP
2 31 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
3 18 (2.70%) SAML
4 17 (2.55%) OpenID
5 14 (2.10%) SailPoint
6 12 (1.80%) REST
7 9 (1.35%) 802.1X
7 9 (1.35%) LangChain
7 9 (1.35%) PyTorch
7 9 (1.35%) scikit-learn
8 8 (1.20%) Kafka
9 6 (0.90%) OAuth
10 5 (0.75%) eBPF
10 5 (0.75%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.60%) Azure Blueprints
11 4 (0.60%) CSS
11 4 (0.60%) JSON
11 4 (0.60%) Middleware
12 3 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (14.86%) Onboarding
2 92 (13.81%) Security Posture
3 76 (11.41%) Cloud Native
4 73 (10.96%) Security Operations Centre
5 53 (7.96%) Cyber Threat
6 48 (7.21%) Operational Technology
7 40 (6.01%) Management Information System
8 32 (4.80%) Cyber Defence
9 20 (3.00%) Cloud Security Posture
10 19 (2.85%) Data Centre
11 17 (2.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 16 (2.40%) CSOC
12 16 (2.40%) PKI
13 15 (2.25%) SCADA
14 10 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.50%) Product Ownership
15 8 (1.20%) CMDB
15 8 (1.20%) Cyberattack
15 8 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
16 7 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 139 (20.87%) Windows
2 138 (20.72%) Linux
3 41 (6.16%) Unix
4 27 (4.05%) Windows Server
5 24 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.20%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.15%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (54.05%) Cybersecurity
2 225 (33.78%) Security Operations
3 219 (32.88%) Incident Response
4 130 (19.52%) Cloud Security
5 127 (19.07%) CI/CD
6 112 (16.82%) DevOps
6 112 (16.82%) Threat Detection
7 110 (16.52%) Vulnerability Management
8 102 (15.32%) SOAR
9 95 (14.26%) Security Architecture
10 94 (14.11%) Security Monitoring
11 90 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 89 (13.36%) Threat Intelligence
12 89 (13.36%) Zero Trust
13 80 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
14 78 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 75 (11.26%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 74 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 72 (10.81%) ITSM
18 71 (10.66%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 160 (24.02%) Python
2 132 (19.82%) PowerShell
3 63 (9.46%) Bash
4 50 (7.51%) Kusto Query Language
5 17 (2.55%) SQL
6 15 (2.25%) Java
6 15 (2.25%) Search Processing Language
7 10 (1.50%) Bicep
8 7 (1.05%) Perl
9 3 (0.45%) Groovy
9 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.30%) C
10 2 (0.30%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.15%) Lisp
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 286 (42.94%) Security Cleared
2 189 (28.38%) SC Cleared
3 137 (20.57%) CISSP
4 85 (12.76%) DV Cleared
5 76 (11.41%) CISM
6 62 (9.31%) Degree
7 61 (9.16%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (5.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 36 (5.41%) GIAC
10 28 (4.20%) AWS Certification
11 24 (3.60%) CompTIA Security+
12 22 (3.30%) CCNP
13 21 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (3.15%) CCSP
14 20 (3.00%) Azure Certification
15 19 (2.85%) CEH
16 18 (2.70%) CompTIA CySA+
16 18 (2.70%) GCIH
17 15 (2.25%) GCIA
17 15 (2.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (25.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 159 (23.87%) NIST
3 73 (10.96%) GDPR
4 53 (7.96%) NCSC
5 29 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 29 (4.35%) PCI DSS
6 16 (2.40%) GRC
6 16 (2.40%) PMO
7 14 (2.10%) HIPAA
7 14 (2.10%) SLA
7 14 (2.10%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.50%) NIST 800
8 10 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.35%) ISO 31000
10 8 (1.20%) QA
11 7 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.75%) Data Quality
14 4 (0.60%) COBIT
System Software
1 105 (15.77%) Active Directory
2 24 (3.60%) Docker
3 20 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.20%) VMware NSX
5 8 (1.20%) vSphere
6 7 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.90%) Snort
8 4 (0.60%) Squid
9 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.15%) NFS
10 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.15%) Samba
10 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 78 (11.71%) Terraform
2 63 (9.46%) Kubernetes
3 46 (6.91%) Ansible
4 28 (4.20%) QRadar
5 20 (3.00%) CASB
6 12 (1.80%) Progress Chef
6 12 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.65%) Kibana
8 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.35%) Grafana
10 8 (1.20%) logstash
11 7 (1.05%) CSIRT
12 6 (0.90%) Prometheus
12 6 (0.90%) Puppet
13 5 (0.75%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.60%) Nessus
14 4 (0.60%) Packer
15 3 (0.45%) Suricata
15 3 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 174 (26.13%) Microsoft
2 123 (18.47%) Splunk
3 78 (11.71%) CyberArk
4 46 (6.91%) ServiceNow
5 43 (6.46%) BeyondTrust
6 41 (6.16%) CrowdStrike
7 36 (5.41%) Cisco
8 33 (4.95%) Google
9 28 (4.20%) Zscaler
10 26 (3.90%) Qualys
11 24 (3.60%) Fortinet
11 24 (3.60%) Oracle
12 23 (3.45%) Palo Alto
12 23 (3.45%) Tanium
13 22 (3.30%) Tenable
13 22 (3.30%) VMware
14 16 (2.40%) Okta
14 16 (2.40%) Red Hat
15 13 (1.95%) LogRhythm
16 11 (1.65%) ArcSight