SIEM Contracts in England

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SIEM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SIEM over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 149 159
Rank change year-on-year -37 +10 +164
Contract jobs citing SIEM 379 583 772
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.43% 1.56% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.83% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 402 571
10th Percentile £415 £425 £425
25th Percentile £475 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £669 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £790
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 5
10th Percentile £59.59 - -
25th Percentile £80.34 £40.00 £72.50
Median hourly rate £80.68 £48.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.49% -35.00% +13.98%
75th Percentile £100.00 £72.50 £77.75
90th Percentile £103.30 £76.78 £79.10
UK median hourly rate £80.68 £48.75 £75.00
% change year-on-year +65.49% -35.00% +13.98%

All Process and 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 24,122 31,895 43,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.96% 85.58% 89.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,512 20,709 30,160
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,206 2,293 1,566
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.12 £16.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%
75th Percentile £54.94 £62.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £73.10 £76.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM in England.

Daily rate trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in England

SIEM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIEM in England.

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SIEM in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 2025. 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 +29 177 £606 +1.04% 477
South East -6 65 £500 -17.70% 149
Midlands -38 40 £485 -19.17% 80
West Midlands -35 38 £485 -19.17% 52
East of England +57 35 £550 -8.33% 64
North of England -5 32 £600 +3.09% 128
North West +9 21 £611 +11.14% 78
Yorkshire -10 11 £600 -13.67% 41
South West -71 10 £606 +1.04% 53
East Midlands +4 2 - - 27
SIEM
UK

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.32%) Confluence
2 3 (0.79%) Apache
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.26%) 1Password
2 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle CRM
1 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 105 (27.70%) Azure
2 79 (20.84%) AWS
3 46 (12.14%) Azure Sentinel
4 30 (7.92%) SaaS
5 28 (7.39%) GCP
6 22 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (5.80%) Amazon S3
7 21 (5.54%) Amazon SQS
8 20 (5.28%) Cohesity
9 19 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (4.49%) GitHub
11 9 (2.37%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (2.11%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.58%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 6 (1.58%) AWS KMS
13 6 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (1.32%) AWS CloudTrail
14 5 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 112 (29.55%) Firewall
2 64 (16.89%) Network Security
3 40 (10.55%) DNS
4 26 (6.86%) VPN
5 24 (6.33%) TCP/IP
6 22 (5.80%) SAN
7 18 (4.75%) SMTP
8 17 (4.49%) SSL
9 15 (3.96%) Intrusion Detection
10 14 (3.69%) BGP
10 14 (3.69%) HTTP
11 13 (3.43%) VLAN
12 12 (3.17%) OSPF
13 6 (1.58%) FTP
13 6 (1.58%) IPsec
14 4 (1.06%) WAN
14 4 (1.06%) Wireshark
15 3 (0.79%) Internet
15 3 (0.79%) SSH
15 3 (0.79%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (1.32%) Big Data
2 5 (1.32%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.06%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.53%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.26%) DB2
5 1 (0.26%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.26%) Power BI
5 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (3.17%) Jenkins
2 11 (2.90%) GitLab
3 10 (2.64%) Git
4 8 (2.11%) JIRA
5 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.79%) JMeter
5 3 (0.79%) Postman
5 3 (0.79%) REST Assured
5 3 (0.79%) Selenium
5 3 (0.79%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.79%) TestNG
5 3 (0.79%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
General
1 89 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 67 (17.68%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (14.51%) Finance
4 37 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.07%) Telecoms
6 21 (5.54%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (5.01%) Banking
8 15 (3.96%) Legal
9 9 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.11%) Military
11 7 (1.85%) Law
11 7 (1.85%) Marketing
12 5 (1.32%) Electronics
12 5 (1.32%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.06%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.79%) Local Government
14 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.79%) Police
14 3 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (19.26%) Architect
2 68 (17.94%) Security Engineer
3 65 (17.15%) Analyst
3 65 (17.15%) Security Architect
4 35 (9.23%) SOC Analyst
5 34 (8.97%) Security Analyst
6 26 (6.86%) Senior
7 21 (5.54%) Consultant
7 21 (5.54%) Lead
8 16 (4.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 15 (3.96%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 14 (3.69%) SIEM Engineer
11 13 (3.43%) Security Manager
12 11 (2.90%) Developer
12 11 (2.90%) Network Engineer
13 10 (2.64%) Automation Engineer
13 10 (2.64%) Operations Analyst
13 10 (2.64%) Security Operations Analyst
13 10 (2.64%) Senior Architect
14 9 (2.37%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.69%) REST
2 10 (2.64%) .NET
3 9 (2.37%) JSON
4 8 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (1.58%) LDAP
6 4 (1.06%) React
7 3 (0.79%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (0.79%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.79%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (0.79%) CSS
7 3 (0.79%) HTML
7 3 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.79%) XML
8 2 (0.53%) Kafka
8 2 (0.53%) Node.js
8 2 (0.53%) OAuth
8 2 (0.53%) OpenID
8 2 (0.53%) SAML
8 2 (0.53%) Web Services
9 1 (0.26%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 61 (16.09%) Security Posture
2 60 (15.83%) Security Operations Centre
3 57 (15.04%) Cyber Threat
4 40 (10.55%) CSOC
4 40 (10.55%) Onboarding
5 32 (8.44%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.17%) Cyber Defence
7 11 (2.90%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.37%) PKI
10 8 (2.11%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.85%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 6 (1.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (1.58%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.32%) Cyberattack
14 4 (1.06%) Cyber Security Posture
14 4 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 83 (21.90%) Windows
2 46 (12.14%) Linux
3 38 (10.03%) Windows Server
4 22 (5.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (5.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.58%) Check Point GAiA
8 5 (1.32%) VMS
9 4 (1.06%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.79%) CentOS
11 2 (0.53%) Unix
11 2 (0.53%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.26%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (48.81%) Cybersecurity
2 151 (39.84%) Security Operations
3 141 (37.20%) Incident Response
4 94 (24.80%) SOAR
5 87 (22.96%) Vulnerability Management
6 77 (20.32%) Threat Detection
7 76 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (18.47%) Threat Intelligence
9 59 (15.57%) Cloud Security
10 57 (15.04%) Security Monitoring
11 55 (14.51%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 47 (12.40%) Use Case
13 43 (11.35%) Information Security
14 40 (10.55%) DevOps
15 38 (10.03%) Security Architecture
16 36 (9.50%) Data Loss Prevention
17 35 (9.23%) MITRE ATT&CK
18 33 (8.71%) Risk Management
18 33 (8.71%) Threat Modelling
19 30 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 95 (25.07%) PowerShell
2 88 (23.22%) Python
3 30 (7.92%) Bash
4 27 (7.12%) Kusto Query Language
5 8 (2.11%) Java
6 7 (1.85%) C#
7 6 (1.58%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.06%) PHP
8 4 (1.06%) SQL
8 4 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.79%) C
9 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.53%) Perl
11 1 (0.26%) Bicep
11 1 (0.26%) C++
11 1 (0.26%) Ruby
11 1 (0.26%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 107 (28.23%) Security Cleared
2 72 (19.00%) CISSP
2 72 (19.00%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.97%) DV Cleared
4 32 (8.44%) Degree
5 31 (8.18%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (7.12%) CEH
7 26 (6.86%) GCIH
8 25 (6.60%) CISM
9 23 (6.07%) GIAC
10 18 (4.75%) CompTIA Security+
11 16 (4.22%) GCIA
12 14 (3.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 13 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (3.17%) CCNP
14 12 (3.17%) CCSE
15 11 (2.90%) CCSP
16 9 (2.37%) GCFA
17 8 (2.11%) CCNA
17 8 (2.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (17.68%) NIST
2 62 (16.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (10.29%) GDPR
4 20 (5.28%) HIPAA
5 18 (4.75%) PCI DSS
6 14 (3.69%) SLA
7 8 (2.11%) NCSC
7 8 (2.11%) QA
8 5 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.32%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.32%) NIST 800
8 5 (1.32%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.79%) GRC
11 2 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.26%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (12.14%) Active Directory
2 26 (6.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (5.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 20 (5.28%) Virtual Servers
4 14 (3.69%) Docker
5 7 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.06%) vSphere
7 3 (0.79%) FreeRADIUS
7 3 (0.79%) iptables
7 3 (0.79%) vCloud
7 3 (0.79%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.79%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.26%) Snort
8 1 (0.26%) Squid
8 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (12.14%) Ansible
2 24 (6.33%) SCCM
3 21 (5.54%) WSUS
4 18 (4.75%) Kubernetes
4 18 (4.75%) QRadar
5 14 (3.69%) Terraform
6 10 (2.64%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.37%) Grafana
8 7 (1.85%) CSIRT
8 7 (1.85%) Kibana
9 5 (1.32%) CASB
9 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.32%) Nessus
9 5 (1.32%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.32%) Puppet
9 5 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.79%) Cacti
10 3 (0.79%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 3 (0.79%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 135 (35.62%) Splunk
2 122 (32.19%) Microsoft
3 38 (10.03%) Palo Alto
3 38 (10.03%) VMware
4 27 (7.12%) Cisco
5 22 (5.80%) CrowdStrike
6 21 (5.54%) NetApp
7 18 (4.75%) Google
8 16 (4.22%) ServiceNow
9 14 (3.69%) Fortinet
10 13 (3.43%) CheckPoint
11 10 (2.64%) ArcSight
11 10 (2.64%) Rapid7
11 10 (2.64%) SAP
12 9 (2.37%) Zscaler
13 8 (2.11%) CyberArk
13 8 (2.11%) Oracle
13 8 (2.11%) Tenable
14 7 (1.85%) IBM
14 7 (1.85%) SolarWinds