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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 192 155
Rank change year-on-year +34 -37 +57
Contract jobs citing SIEM 599 353 585
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.37% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.52% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 228 426
10th Percentile £414 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £504 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -3.62% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £835 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 7
10th Percentile £26.80 £49.21 -
25th Percentile £40.52 £54.40 -
Median hourly rate £48.72 £67.59 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.92% +68.97% -46.67%
75th Percentile £76.25 £76.57 £68.75
90th Percentile £84.88 £79.24 £76.20
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.59 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.83% +68.97% -46.67%

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 30,972 23,170 33,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.17% 90.22% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,848 14,569 21,913
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £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 1,919 779 2,056
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.59 £13.42
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.93
90th Percentile £72.51 £75.30 £72.17
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% -4.29%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +22 245 £623 +5.06% 57
South East +35 149 £500 -10.71% 47
Midlands -37 66 £525 -8.06% 19
North of England -22 59 £558 -7.08% 35
West Midlands -38 58 £545 -4.55% 14
North West +1 44 £575 +5.99% 30
South West -16 43 £537 -10.50% 10
East of England -19 17 £540 -6.09% 16
Yorkshire -60 12 £510 -18.40% 5
East Midlands - 8 £438 - 5
North East -11 3 £400 +14.29%
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 12 (2.00%) Confluence
2 9 (1.50%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.17%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.17%) nginx
4 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.34%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 250 (41.74%) Azure
2 208 (34.72%) AWS
3 119 (19.87%) GCP
4 77 (12.85%) Azure Sentinel
5 62 (10.35%) Entra ID
6 47 (7.85%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.34%) OpenShift
8 24 (4.01%) Microsoft Purview
9 21 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (2.00%) GitHub
13 11 (1.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 11 (1.84%) SaaS
14 10 (1.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 9 (1.50%) Azure AKS
15 9 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (1.50%) Serverless
16 8 (1.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 126 (21.04%) Firewall
2 95 (15.86%) Network Security
3 46 (7.68%) DNS
4 41 (6.84%) VPN
5 39 (6.51%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.50%) DHCP
7 14 (2.34%) SSL
8 12 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
9 11 (1.84%) SMTP
10 10 (1.67%) BGP
10 10 (1.67%) HTTP
11 9 (1.50%) OSPF
12 8 (1.34%) WAN
13 7 (1.17%) Internet
13 7 (1.17%) IPsec
13 7 (1.17%) LAN
13 7 (1.17%) MPLS
13 7 (1.17%) Wireshark
14 6 (1.00%) SSH
14 6 (1.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (1.84%) Data Lake
3 9 (1.50%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.50%) Power BI
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.17%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.17%) Redis
7 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (3.34%) JIRA
2 16 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.17%) GitLab
4 6 (1.00%) Snyk
5 4 (0.67%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.50%) Git
7 2 (0.33%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.33%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.33%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.17%) AppScan
8 1 (0.17%) JUnit
8 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 208 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 79 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (11.52%) Finance
4 67 (11.19%) Public Sector
5 58 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (3.01%) Banking
7 14 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.00%) Military
9 11 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.50%) Legal
11 5 (0.83%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.83%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.83%) Retail
12 4 (0.67%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.33%) Back Office
13 2 (0.33%) Local Government
13 2 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.17%) Advertising
14 1 (0.17%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 130 (21.70%) Architect
2 119 (19.87%) Security Engineer
3 115 (19.20%) Analyst
4 70 (11.69%) Senior
5 53 (8.85%) SIEM Engineer
6 51 (8.51%) Security Analyst
7 48 (8.01%) Security Architect
8 47 (7.85%) CyberArk Architect
9 46 (7.68%) SOC Analyst
10 30 (5.01%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 27 (4.51%) Senior Analyst
12 24 (4.01%) Consultant
13 23 (3.84%) Lead
14 19 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
14 19 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 16 (2.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
17 14 (2.34%) Security Manager
18 13 (2.17%) Operations Analyst
19 12 (2.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.36%) LDAP
2 52 (8.68%) REST
3 35 (5.84%) SOAP
4 31 (5.18%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (4.34%) SAML
6 24 (4.01%) OpenID
7 10 (1.67%) OAuth
8 9 (1.50%) Kafka
8 9 (1.50%) OAuth2
9 8 (1.34%) ARM Templates
10 7 (1.17%) PyTorch
10 7 (1.17%) SailPoint
11 6 (1.00%) 802.1X
11 6 (1.00%) JSON
11 6 (1.00%) LangChain
11 6 (1.00%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.67%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (0.50%) Middleware
13 3 (0.50%) Node.js
13 3 (0.50%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 97 (16.19%) Security Posture
2 72 (12.02%) Security Operations Centre
3 63 (10.52%) Onboarding
4 49 (8.18%) Cloud Native
5 48 (8.01%) Enterprise Software
6 41 (6.84%) Cyber Threat
7 31 (5.18%) Cyber Defence
7 31 (5.18%) Operational Technology
8 30 (5.01%) Management Information System
9 21 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (3.34%) PKI
11 15 (2.50%) Cyberattack
12 14 (2.34%) CSOC
12 14 (2.34%) Product Ownership
13 13 (2.17%) Cyber Security Posture
14 12 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
15 9 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (1.50%) Data Centre
16 8 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (1.34%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 97 (16.19%) Windows
2 96 (16.03%) Linux
3 26 (4.34%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.01%) Unix
6 6 (1.00%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.67%) CentOS
7 4 (0.67%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.33%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.33%) 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
1 283 (47.25%) Cybersecurity
2 199 (33.22%) Incident Response
3 183 (30.55%) Security Operations
4 131 (21.87%) SOAR
5 127 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
6 125 (20.87%) Cloud Security
7 120 (20.03%) Threat Detection
8 106 (17.70%) CI/CD
9 103 (17.20%) DevOps
10 86 (14.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 84 (14.02%) Vulnerability Management
12 78 (13.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 74 (12.35%) DevSecOps
14 71 (11.85%) Security Architecture
14 71 (11.85%) Zero Trust
15 70 (11.69%) Threat Modelling
16 67 (11.19%) Stakeholder Management
17 63 (10.52%) Identity Access Management
18 60 (10.02%) MITRE ATT&CK
19 58 (9.68%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 202 (33.72%) Python
2 173 (28.88%) PowerShell
3 56 (9.35%) Kusto Query Language
4 37 (6.18%) Bash
5 21 (3.51%) Bicep
6 12 (2.00%) SQL
7 11 (1.84%) Java
8 9 (1.50%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.67%) Go
10 3 (0.50%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.50%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.33%) C++
12 1 (0.17%) C
12 1 (0.17%) Lisp
12 1 (0.17%) R
12 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 271 (45.24%) Security Cleared
2 218 (36.39%) SC Cleared
3 134 (22.37%) CISSP
4 73 (12.19%) CISM
5 58 (9.68%) DV Cleared
6 48 (8.01%) Degree
7 41 (6.84%) GIAC
8 32 (5.34%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (5.18%) Azure Certification
10 30 (5.01%) CEH
11 29 (4.84%) CompTIA Security+
12 23 (3.84%) AWS Certification
13 19 (3.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (2.67%) CompTIA CySA+
15 15 (2.50%) CCSP
15 15 (2.50%) GCIH
16 14 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
17 13 (2.17%) GCIA
17 13 (2.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (26.54%) NIST
2 144 (24.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 81 (13.52%) GDPR
4 38 (6.34%) NCSC
5 35 (5.84%) PCI DSS
6 23 (3.84%) HIPAA
7 17 (2.84%) NIST 800
8 14 (2.34%) GRC
9 13 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (2.00%) SOC 2
11 11 (1.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (1.17%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.67%) QA
15 3 (0.50%) COBIT
15 3 (0.50%) PSD2
15 3 (0.50%) RMADS
System Software
1 112 (18.70%) Active Directory
2 32 (5.34%) Docker
3 14 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.00%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.34%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.17%) Snort
7 4 (0.67%) Postfix
7 4 (0.67%) Squid
8 2 (0.33%) NFS
8 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.33%) vSphere
9 1 (0.17%) GPFS
9 1 (0.17%) Lustre
9 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 78 (13.02%) Kubernetes
2 69 (11.52%) Terraform
3 29 (4.84%) Ansible
4 25 (4.17%) Kibana
5 16 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (2.34%) logstash
7 13 (2.17%) QRadar
8 10 (1.67%) Nessus
9 9 (1.50%) SCCM
10 8 (1.34%) WSUS
11 7 (1.17%) Grafana
12 6 (1.00%) CSIRT
13 5 (0.83%) CASB
14 4 (0.67%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.50%) Argo
15 3 (0.50%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.50%) Icinga
15 3 (0.50%) Nexpose
15 3 (0.50%) Suricata
Vendors
1 165 (27.55%) Microsoft
2 135 (22.54%) Splunk
3 89 (14.86%) CyberArk
4 70 (11.69%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.68%) Centrify
6 31 (5.18%) Tenable
7 30 (5.01%) Qualys
8 27 (4.51%) Cisco
9 24 (4.01%) Palo Alto
10 23 (3.84%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (3.67%) Google
11 22 (3.67%) VMware
12 21 (3.51%) ServiceNow
13 20 (3.34%) Zscaler
14 18 (3.01%) LogRhythm
15 16 (2.67%) Fortinet
16 15 (2.50%) FireEye
16 15 (2.50%) Tanium
17 14 (2.34%) IBM
17 14 (2.34%) Red Hat