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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 185 148
Rank change year-on-year +11 -37 +17
Contract jobs citing SIEM 624 353 589
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.52% 1.46% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.59% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 232 423
10th Percentile £413 £401 £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 £652 £650 £713
90th Percentile £750 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 3 6
10th Percentile £37.72 £52.67 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £63.04 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.68 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.83% +101.69% -46.67%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £63.44
90th Percentile £83.75 - £74.63
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £80.68 £40.00
% change year-on-year -31.21% +101.69% -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 34,754 22,136 31,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.71% 91.24% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,164 14,481 20,585
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,141 934 2,241
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.41 £12.87
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.41 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.06 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.41 £36.02
% change year-on-year +49.60% -21.13% +0.06%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -10 234 £600 - 101
South East +5 171 £521 -0.33% 123
North of England -7 82 £558 -7.08% 68
North West +22 67 £568 +8.19% 32
Midlands -56 54 £545 -0.91% 22
West Midlands -58 48 £550 - 19
South West -8 36 £575 +4.55% 57
East of England -33 25 £550 - 42
Yorkshire -58 12 £540 -11.84% 25
East Midlands - 6 £438 - 3
North East - 3 £400 - 11
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 16 (2.56%) Confluence
2 9 (1.44%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.16%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.16%) nginx
5 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.80%) Maximo
1 5 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 250 (40.06%) Azure
2 187 (29.97%) AWS
3 111 (17.79%) GCP
4 76 (12.18%) Entra ID
5 64 (10.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 47 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (3.85%) OpenShift
8 23 (3.69%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (3.69%) SaaS
9 19 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.40%) GitHub
11 15 (2.40%) PaaS
11 15 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (2.08%) IaaS
13 9 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (1.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 8 (1.28%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 95 (15.22%) Firewall
2 92 (14.74%) Network Security
3 44 (7.05%) DNS
4 35 (5.61%) TCP/IP
5 34 (5.45%) VPN
6 18 (2.88%) SSL
7 16 (2.56%) DHCP
8 13 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
9 11 (1.76%) VLAN
9 11 (1.76%) WAN
10 10 (1.60%) HTTP
10 10 (1.60%) SD-WAN
11 8 (1.28%) IPsec
12 7 (1.12%) BGP
12 7 (1.12%) Internet
12 7 (1.12%) MPLS
12 7 (1.12%) NGFW
12 7 (1.12%) OSPF
12 7 (1.12%) SMTP
12 7 (1.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.37%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.64%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.32%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.32%) Power BI
6 2 (0.32%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.32%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.16%) Metadata
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 30 (4.81%) JIRA
2 16 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.28%) Git
4 7 (1.12%) GitLab
4 7 (1.12%) Snyk
5 2 (0.32%) CircleCI
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
1 193 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 78 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (12.34%) Finance
4 62 (9.94%) Documentation Skills
4 62 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 21 (3.37%) Banking
6 15 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (2.40%) Military
7 9 (1.44%) Retail
8 7 (1.12%) Legal
9 6 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.80%) Local Government
11 4 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.64%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.64%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.48%) Law
13 2 (0.32%) Advertising
14 1 (0.16%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.16%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 125 (20.03%) Architect
2 107 (17.15%) Security Engineer
3 102 (16.35%) Analyst
4 60 (9.62%) Senior
5 53 (8.49%) CyberArk Architect
6 50 (8.01%) SOC Analyst
7 43 (6.89%) SIEM Engineer
8 37 (5.93%) Security Architect
9 32 (5.13%) Lead
10 31 (4.97%) Security Analyst
11 30 (4.81%) Consultant
12 23 (3.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 22 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
14 20 (3.21%) Security Manager
14 20 (3.21%) SOC Engineer
15 17 (2.72%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 17 (2.72%) Security Specialist
16 16 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 15 (2.40%) Cybersecurity Specialist
18 14 (2.24%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (12.66%) LDAP
2 49 (7.85%) REST
3 43 (6.89%) Elastic Stack
4 35 (5.61%) SOAP
5 20 (3.21%) OpenID
5 20 (3.21%) SAML
6 13 (2.08%) Kafka
7 11 (1.76%) SailPoint
8 9 (1.44%) 802.1X
9 7 (1.12%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.12%) OAuth
10 6 (0.96%) LangChain
10 6 (0.96%) OAuth2
10 6 (0.96%) PyTorch
10 6 (0.96%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.80%) eBPF
11 5 (0.80%) JSON
11 5 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.64%) ADO
12 4 (0.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 93 (14.90%) Security Posture
2 81 (12.98%) Onboarding
3 63 (10.10%) Security Operations Centre
4 60 (9.62%) Cloud Native
5 47 (7.53%) Cyber Threat
6 41 (6.57%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (6.09%) Operational Technology
8 32 (5.13%) Management Information System
9 19 (3.04%) Cloud Security Posture
10 18 (2.88%) Cyber Defence
10 18 (2.88%) PKI
11 17 (2.72%) Cyberattack
12 14 (2.24%) Product Ownership
13 13 (2.08%) CSOC
13 13 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (2.08%) SCADA
14 12 (1.92%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
16 9 (1.44%) Cyber Security Posture
17 8 (1.28%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 124 (19.87%) Windows
2 121 (19.39%) Linux
3 32 (5.13%) Unix
4 28 (4.49%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
2 180 (28.85%) Incident Response
2 180 (28.85%) Security Operations
3 126 (20.19%) CI/CD
4 120 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 114 (18.27%) Threat Detection
6 113 (18.11%) DevOps
7 109 (17.47%) Cloud Security
8 100 (16.03%) SOAR
9 88 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 88 (14.10%) Vulnerability Management
10 85 (13.62%) ITSM
10 85 (13.62%) Security Architecture
11 77 (12.34%) Zero Trust
12 73 (11.70%) Privileged Access Management
13 70 (11.22%) DevSecOps
14 66 (10.58%) Security Monitoring
14 66 (10.58%) Threat Intelligence
15 65 (10.42%) Threat Modelling
16 64 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 194 (31.09%) Python
2 172 (27.56%) PowerShell
3 48 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
4 47 (7.53%) Bash
5 15 (2.40%) Bicep
6 13 (2.08%) SQL
7 11 (1.76%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (1.12%) Java
8 7 (1.12%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.64%) Go
10 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.16%) Groovy
11 1 (0.16%) Lisp
11 1 (0.16%) Perl
11 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 287 (45.99%) Security Cleared
2 217 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 129 (20.67%) CISSP
4 80 (12.82%) CISM
5 67 (10.74%) DV Cleared
6 50 (8.01%) Cisco Certification
7 45 (7.21%) Degree
8 36 (5.77%) GIAC
9 33 (5.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 25 (4.01%) CEH
11 23 (3.69%) CompTIA Security+
12 21 (3.37%) Azure Certification
13 19 (3.04%) AWS Certification
14 17 (2.72%) CCSP
15 15 (2.40%) CCNP
16 14 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
17 12 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
18 11 (1.76%) GCIH
18 11 (1.76%) SSCP
19 10 (1.60%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (23.40%) NIST
2 134 (21.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 65 (10.42%) GDPR
4 29 (4.65%) NCSC
5 26 (4.17%) PCI DSS
6 21 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (2.08%) HIPAA
7 13 (2.08%) NIST 800
7 13 (2.08%) SOC 2
8 12 (1.92%) SLA
9 10 (1.60%) PMO
9 10 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (1.44%) GRC
11 8 (1.28%) ISO 31000
11 8 (1.28%) QA
12 6 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.80%) COBIT
14 4 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 133 (21.31%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.69%) Docker
3 19 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.76%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.12%) Snort
6 7 (1.12%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.64%) Squid
9 2 (0.32%) NFS
9 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.32%) vSphere
10 1 (0.16%) Postfix
10 1 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 70 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 67 (10.74%) Terraform
3 34 (5.45%) Ansible
4 22 (3.53%) QRadar
5 21 (3.37%) Kibana
6 18 (2.88%) CASB
7 13 (2.08%) logstash
8 12 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.76%) Grafana
10 8 (1.28%) Nessus
11 5 (0.80%) CSIRT
11 5 (0.80%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.80%) SCCM
11 5 (0.80%) WSUS
12 4 (0.64%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.48%) Argo
13 3 (0.48%) Icinga
13 3 (0.48%) Suricata
14 2 (0.32%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 156 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 125 (20.03%) Splunk
3 109 (17.47%) CyberArk
4 75 (12.02%) BeyondTrust
5 36 (5.77%) Centrify
6 35 (5.61%) Cisco
7 33 (5.29%) ServiceNow
8 31 (4.97%) CrowdStrike
9 30 (4.81%) Qualys
10 25 (4.01%) Tanium
10 25 (4.01%) VMware
11 24 (3.85%) Zscaler
12 23 (3.69%) Tenable
13 20 (3.21%) Palo Alto
14 18 (2.88%) Fortinet
15 16 (2.56%) Google
15 16 (2.56%) LogRhythm
16 13 (2.08%) Oracle
17 12 (1.92%) IBM
18 11 (1.76%) Okta