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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 182 150
Rank change year-on-year +14 -32 +15
Contract jobs citing SIEM 643 372 587
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.49% 1.50% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.64% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 244 413
10th Percentile £413 £414 £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 £664 £710
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 29 4 8
10th Percentile £39.13 £56.13 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £71.69 £40.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £80.68 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.92% +65.49% -35.00%
75th Percentile £70.23 £85.76 £72.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £94.30 £76.78
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £80.68 £48.75
% change year-on-year -34.92% +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 36,727 22,725 32,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.37% 85.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,194 14,704 20,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,299 1,073 2,390
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%
75th Percentile £68.55 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.05%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -12 239 £575 -8.00% 86
South East +10 165 £525 +5.00% 110
North of England +5 105 £554 -4.53% 66
North West +24 79 £558 -0.45% 33
South West +13 45 £600 -1.03% 50
Midlands -57 45 £550 +2.42% 24
West Midlands -61 40 £550 +2.42% 22
Yorkshire -44 26 £550 -8.33% 20
East of England -41 22 £550 - 35
East Midlands -14 5 £438 - 2
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 17 (2.64%) 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
2 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 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
1 229 (35.61%) Azure
2 167 (25.97%) AWS
3 101 (15.71%) GCP
4 88 (13.69%) Entra ID
5 59 (9.18%) Azure Sentinel
6 42 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (4.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (3.58%) OpenShift
8 23 (3.58%) SaaS
8 23 (3.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.18%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (2.02%) Datadog
11 13 (2.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 12 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (1.56%) GitHub
14 9 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (1.40%) IaaS
14 9 (1.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 103 (16.02%) Firewall
2 100 (15.55%) Network Security
3 36 (5.60%) DNS
4 30 (4.67%) VPN
5 26 (4.04%) TCP/IP
6 23 (3.58%) SSL
7 21 (3.27%) Intrusion Detection
8 20 (3.11%) WAN
9 16 (2.49%) BGP
10 15 (2.33%) HTTP
11 14 (2.18%) SD-WAN
12 13 (2.02%) Internet
12 13 (2.02%) VLAN
13 12 (1.87%) IPsec
14 11 (1.71%) OSPF
15 8 (1.24%) DHCP
15 8 (1.24%) NGFW
15 8 (1.24%) SSH
16 7 (1.09%) Cisco Firepower
16 7 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.73%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.62%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.62%) Power BI
4 3 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
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%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.16%) Metadata
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 27 (4.20%) JIRA
2 17 (2.64%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.71%) Git
4 6 (0.93%) Snyk
5 2 (0.31%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.31%) GitLab
6 1 (0.16%) AppScan
6 1 (0.16%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.16%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.16%) TruffleHog
General
1 189 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 90 (14.00%) Finance
3 72 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.89%) Public Sector
5 67 (10.42%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (4.04%) Banking
7 20 (3.11%) Military
8 14 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.40%) Retail
10 8 (1.24%) Local Government
11 6 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.93%) Legal
12 5 (0.78%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.62%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.47%) Law
15 2 (0.31%) Advertising
15 2 (0.31%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 116 (18.04%) Analyst
2 111 (17.26%) Security Engineer
3 107 (16.64%) Architect
4 56 (8.71%) Senior
5 51 (7.93%) SOC Analyst
6 47 (7.31%) Security Analyst
7 39 (6.07%) CyberArk Architect
7 39 (6.07%) Security Architect
8 38 (5.91%) Consultant
9 37 (5.75%) Lead
10 32 (4.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 29 (4.51%) SIEM Engineer
12 26 (4.04%) Security Manager
13 24 (3.73%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 24 (3.73%) Network Engineer
14 23 (3.58%) Cloud Engineer
15 22 (3.42%) Operations Analyst
16 21 (3.27%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 21 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
17 20 (3.11%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (8.09%) LDAP
2 32 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (4.98%) REST
3 22 (3.42%) SOAP
4 19 (2.95%) SAML
5 18 (2.80%) OpenID
6 14 (2.18%) SailPoint
7 12 (1.87%) 802.1X
8 8 (1.24%) Kafka
9 7 (1.09%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.09%) LangChain
9 7 (1.09%) PyTorch
9 7 (1.09%) scikit-learn
10 6 (0.93%) OAuth
11 5 (0.78%) Azure Blueprints
11 5 (0.78%) OAuth2
12 4 (0.62%) CSS
12 4 (0.62%) eBPF
12 4 (0.62%) Middleware
12 4 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 105 (16.33%) Security Posture
2 87 (13.53%) Onboarding
3 71 (11.04%) Cloud Native
4 69 (10.73%) Security Operations Centre
5 49 (7.62%) Cyber Threat
6 47 (7.31%) Operational Technology
7 42 (6.53%) Management Information System
8 27 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (3.73%) Cyber Defence
10 19 (2.95%) Cloud Security Posture
11 17 (2.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 15 (2.33%) SCADA
13 14 (2.18%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.87%) CSOC
14 12 (1.87%) PKI
15 11 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
16 10 (1.56%) Product Ownership
17 9 (1.40%) Cyberattack
18 8 (1.24%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 131 (20.37%) Linux
2 130 (20.22%) Windows
3 38 (5.91%) Unix
4 28 (4.35%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.93%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.16%) VMS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (50.86%) Cybersecurity
2 204 (31.73%) Incident Response
3 203 (31.57%) Security Operations
4 130 (20.22%) Cloud Security
5 114 (17.73%) CI/CD
6 110 (17.11%) DevOps
7 103 (16.02%) Vulnerability Management
8 102 (15.86%) Threat Detection
9 94 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
10 92 (14.31%) SOAR
11 91 (14.15%) Security Architecture
11 91 (14.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 89 (13.84%) ITSM
12 89 (13.84%) Zero Trust
13 79 (12.29%) Security Monitoring
14 77 (11.98%) Threat Intelligence
15 76 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 69 (10.73%) Stakeholder Management
17 68 (10.58%) Data Loss Prevention
17 68 (10.58%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 165 (25.66%) Python
2 141 (21.93%) PowerShell
3 53 (8.24%) Bash
4 46 (7.15%) Kusto Query Language
5 16 (2.49%) SQL
6 15 (2.33%) Bicep
7 13 (2.02%) Java
7 13 (2.02%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (1.09%) 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
1 285 (44.32%) Security Cleared
2 201 (31.26%) SC Cleared
3 137 (21.31%) CISSP
4 81 (12.60%) CISM
5 77 (11.98%) DV Cleared
6 60 (9.33%) Degree
7 55 (8.55%) Cisco Certification
8 35 (5.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 34 (5.29%) GIAC
10 24 (3.73%) AWS Certification
10 24 (3.73%) CompTIA Security+
11 23 (3.58%) Azure Certification
12 19 (2.95%) CCNP
12 19 (2.95%) CCSP
12 19 (2.95%) CEH
13 16 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (2.33%) CompTIA CySA+
15 14 (2.18%) GCIH
15 14 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (2.18%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (25.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 158 (24.57%) NIST
3 68 (10.58%) GDPR
4 40 (6.22%) NCSC
5 28 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 27 (4.20%) PCI DSS
7 15 (2.33%) PMO
8 14 (2.18%) SOC 2
9 13 (2.02%) GRC
9 13 (2.02%) HIPAA
9 13 (2.02%) NIST 800
9 13 (2.02%) SLA
10 10 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (1.40%) ISO 31000
12 8 (1.24%) QA
13 6 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.78%) COBIT
15 4 (0.62%) JSP 440
System Software
1 118 (18.35%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.95%) Docker
3 14 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.93%) Snort
5 6 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.78%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.62%) Squid
8 3 (0.47%) 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 (11.20%) Terraform
2 62 (9.64%) Kubernetes
3 36 (5.60%) Ansible
4 23 (3.58%) QRadar
5 16 (2.49%) CASB
6 12 (1.87%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.71%) Kibana
7 11 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.24%) Grafana
9 8 (1.24%) logstash
10 6 (0.93%) Nessus
11 5 (0.78%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.62%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.62%) Packer
12 4 (0.62%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.62%) Puppet
13 3 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.47%) Suricata
14 2 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 163 (25.35%) Microsoft
2 116 (18.04%) Splunk
3 94 (14.62%) CyberArk
4 62 (9.64%) BeyondTrust
5 39 (6.07%) ServiceNow
6 37 (5.75%) CrowdStrike
7 36 (5.60%) Cisco
8 28 (4.35%) Google
9 26 (4.04%) Qualys
10 23 (3.58%) Centrify
10 23 (3.58%) Tanium
10 23 (3.58%) Zscaler
11 22 (3.42%) Fortinet
11 22 (3.42%) Palo Alto
11 22 (3.42%) Tenable
12 21 (3.27%) Oracle
12 21 (3.27%) Red Hat
13 16 (2.49%) Okta
13 16 (2.49%) VMware
14 13 (2.02%) IBM