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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 183 157
Rank change year-on-year +3 -26 +4
Contract jobs citing SIEM 641 370 584
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.49% 1.50% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.64% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 242 413
10th Percentile £413 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 4 8
10th Percentile £37.72 £56.13 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £71.69 £40.00
Median hourly rate £53.75 £80.68 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.37% +65.49% -35.00%
75th Percentile £70.32 £85.76 £72.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £94.30 £76.78
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £80.68 £48.75
% change year-on-year -33.37% +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 36,560 22,594 31,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.16% 91.33% 85.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,106 14,607 20,685
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,294 1,062 2,382
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
% change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -11 242 £575 -8.00% 111
South East +13 162 £525 +5.00% 140
North of England +4 103 £549 -2.01% 108
North West +24 80 £549 +8.66% 51
South West +8 44 £600 -1.03% 70
Midlands -57 44 £550 +2.42% 40
West Midlands -57 39 £550 +2.42% 28
Yorkshire -44 23 £570 -5.00% 36
East of England -40 22 £550 - 75
East Midlands -17 5 £438 - 12
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 18 (2.81%) Confluence
2 5 (0.78%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.16%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.78%) Maximo
1 5 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 235 (36.66%) Azure
2 173 (26.99%) AWS
3 104 (16.22%) GCP
4 88 (13.73%) Entra ID
5 60 (9.36%) Azure Sentinel
6 43 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (4.99%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (3.90%) SaaS
9 23 (3.59%) OpenShift
9 23 (3.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (2.18%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (2.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 12 (1.87%) Datadog
14 11 (1.72%) GitHub
15 10 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (1.40%) IaaS
16 9 (1.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (15.76%) Firewall
2 99 (15.44%) Network Security
3 37 (5.77%) DNS
4 30 (4.68%) VPN
5 27 (4.21%) TCP/IP
6 24 (3.74%) SSL
7 19 (2.96%) Intrusion Detection
8 18 (2.81%) WAN
9 15 (2.34%) BGP
9 15 (2.34%) HTTP
10 14 (2.18%) SD-WAN
11 13 (2.03%) Internet
11 13 (2.03%) VLAN
12 12 (1.87%) IPsec
13 11 (1.72%) OSPF
14 8 (1.25%) DHCP
14 8 (1.25%) NGFW
14 8 (1.25%) SSH
15 7 (1.09%) Cisco Firepower
15 7 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.59%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.62%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.62%) Power BI
4 3 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.16%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.16%) Metadata
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 27 (4.21%) JIRA
2 15 (2.34%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.72%) Git
4 6 (0.94%) Snyk
5 2 (0.31%) GitLab
6 1 (0.16%) AppScan
6 1 (0.16%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.16%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.16%) JUnit
6 1 (0.16%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 187 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 90 (14.04%) Finance
3 71 (11.08%) Public Sector
4 69 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (10.14%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (4.06%) Banking
7 19 (2.96%) Military
8 14 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.40%) Retail
10 8 (1.25%) Local Government
11 7 (1.09%) Legal
12 6 (0.94%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.78%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.62%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.47%) Law
16 2 (0.31%) Advertising
16 2 (0.31%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (17.63%) Security Engineer
2 112 (17.47%) Analyst
3 109 (17.00%) Architect
4 59 (9.20%) Senior
5 50 (7.80%) SOC Analyst
6 44 (6.86%) Security Analyst
7 42 (6.55%) CyberArk Architect
8 38 (5.93%) Consultant
8 38 (5.93%) Security Architect
9 37 (5.77%) Lead
10 30 (4.68%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 29 (4.52%) SIEM Engineer
12 26 (4.06%) Security Manager
13 25 (3.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 22 (3.43%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (3.43%) Network Engineer
14 22 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
15 21 (3.28%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 20 (3.12%) Operations Analyst
16 20 (3.12%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (8.58%) LDAP
2 35 (5.46%) REST
3 33 (5.15%) Elastic Stack
4 25 (3.90%) SOAP
5 20 (3.12%) SAML
6 19 (2.96%) OpenID
7 14 (2.18%) SailPoint
8 12 (1.87%) 802.1X
9 8 (1.25%) Kafka
10 7 (1.09%) ARM Templates
10 7 (1.09%) OAuth
11 6 (0.94%) LangChain
11 6 (0.94%) OAuth2
11 6 (0.94%) PyTorch
11 6 (0.94%) scikit-learn
12 5 (0.78%) Azure Blueprints
13 4 (0.62%) ADO
13 4 (0.62%) eBPF
13 4 (0.62%) Middleware
13 4 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 106 (16.54%) Security Posture
2 86 (13.42%) Onboarding
3 69 (10.76%) Cloud Native
4 68 (10.61%) Security Operations Centre
5 49 (7.64%) Cyber Threat
6 45 (7.02%) Operational Technology
7 41 (6.40%) Management Information System
8 30 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (3.43%) Cyber Defence
10 19 (2.96%) Cloud Security Posture
11 17 (2.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 15 (2.34%) SCADA
13 14 (2.18%) Data Centre
14 13 (2.03%) PKI
15 11 (1.72%) CSOC
15 11 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (1.56%) Cyberattack
16 10 (1.56%) Product Ownership
17 9 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
18 8 (1.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 132 (20.59%) Linux
2 129 (20.12%) Windows
3 37 (5.77%) Unix
4 28 (4.37%) Windows Server
5 21 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.94%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.16%) VMS
10 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (50.55%) Cybersecurity
2 203 (31.67%) Incident Response
3 201 (31.36%) Security Operations
4 132 (20.59%) Cloud Security
5 114 (17.78%) CI/CD
6 110 (17.16%) DevOps
7 104 (16.22%) Vulnerability Management
8 101 (15.76%) Threat Detection
9 96 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
10 94 (14.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 93 (14.51%) SOAR
12 90 (14.04%) Zero Trust
13 89 (13.88%) Security Architecture
14 88 (13.73%) ITSM
15 77 (12.01%) Security Monitoring
16 76 (11.86%) Threat Intelligence
17 71 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 71 (11.08%) Stakeholder Management
18 68 (10.61%) Data Loss Prevention
19 67 (10.45%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 166 (25.90%) Python
2 144 (22.46%) PowerShell
3 54 (8.42%) Bash
4 45 (7.02%) Kusto Query Language
5 16 (2.50%) SQL
6 15 (2.34%) Bicep
7 13 (2.03%) Java
7 13 (2.03%) Search Processing Language
8 6 (0.94%) Perl
9 3 (0.47%) Groovy
9 3 (0.47%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.16%) C
10 1 (0.16%) Lisp
10 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 286 (44.62%) Security Cleared
2 202 (31.51%) SC Cleared
3 137 (21.37%) CISSP
4 82 (12.79%) CISM
5 76 (11.86%) DV Cleared
6 61 (9.52%) Degree
7 55 (8.58%) Cisco Certification
8 35 (5.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 33 (5.15%) GIAC
10 25 (3.90%) CompTIA Security+
11 24 (3.74%) AWS Certification
12 23 (3.59%) Azure Certification
13 19 (2.96%) CCNP
13 19 (2.96%) CCSP
13 19 (2.96%) CEH
14 15 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (2.34%) CompTIA CySA+
15 14 (2.18%) GCIH
15 14 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (2.18%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (24.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 157 (24.49%) NIST
3 68 (10.61%) GDPR
4 40 (6.24%) NCSC
5 28 (4.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 27 (4.21%) PCI DSS
7 15 (2.34%) PMO
8 14 (2.18%) SOC 2
9 13 (2.03%) NIST 800
9 13 (2.03%) SLA
10 12 (1.87%) GRC
10 12 (1.87%) HIPAA
11 10 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (1.40%) ISO 31000
13 8 (1.25%) QA
14 6 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.78%) COBIT
16 4 (0.62%) JSP 440
System Software
1 121 (18.88%) Active Directory
2 20 (3.12%) Docker
3 14 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.94%) Snort
5 6 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.78%) Squid
6 5 (0.78%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.62%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.47%) vSphere
9 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.16%) NFS
10 1 (0.16%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 72 (11.23%) Terraform
2 64 (9.98%) Kubernetes
3 35 (5.46%) Ansible
4 23 (3.59%) QRadar
5 16 (2.50%) CASB
6 12 (1.87%) Progress Chef
6 12 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.72%) Kibana
8 9 (1.40%) Grafana
8 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.25%) logstash
10 6 (0.94%) Nessus
11 5 (0.78%) CSIRT
11 5 (0.78%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.62%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.47%) Packer
13 3 (0.47%) Puppet
13 3 (0.47%) Suricata
14 2 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 161 (25.12%) Microsoft
2 115 (17.94%) Splunk
3 96 (14.98%) CyberArk
4 64 (9.98%) BeyondTrust
5 37 (5.77%) ServiceNow
6 36 (5.62%) Cisco
7 35 (5.46%) CrowdStrike
8 27 (4.21%) Google
8 27 (4.21%) Qualys
9 26 (4.06%) Centrify
10 23 (3.59%) Tenable
10 23 (3.59%) Zscaler
11 22 (3.43%) Tanium
12 21 (3.28%) Fortinet
12 21 (3.28%) Palo Alto
13 20 (3.12%) Oracle
13 20 (3.12%) Red Hat
14 17 (2.65%) VMware
15 16 (2.50%) Okta
16 12 (1.87%) IBM