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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 178 195
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 -33
Contract jobs citing SIEM 678 459 425
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.65% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.82% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 302 279
10th Percentile £413 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -8.33% -0.99%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £725
90th Percentile £750 £775 £830
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 11 3
10th Percentile £46.25 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.38 £56.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +13.04% -25.81%
75th Percentile £92.11 £85.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £98.29 £100.00 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £73.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +12.31% +13.04% -23.33%

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 39,007 25,232 28,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.55% 90.97% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,733 16,031 17,231
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,853 1,544 1,222
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.85 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -42 247 £568 -1.30% 261
South East +11 175 £575 +15.00% 101
North of England -20 91 £540 +3.85% 94
South West +19 88 £600 - 47
North West -22 64 £525 +12.60% 55
East of England -30 32 £550 - 23
Yorkshire -25 27 £545 +1.40% 31
Midlands -65 27 £500 -2.91% 40
West Midlands -64 25 £513 -1.25% 27
East Midlands -19 1 £475 +2.70% 13
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 8 (1.18%) Confluence
1 8 (1.18%) IIS
2 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.15%) Apache
4 1 (0.15%) Mendix
4 1 (0.15%) nginx
4 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 248 (36.58%) Azure
2 198 (29.20%) AWS
3 101 (14.90%) GCP
4 97 (14.31%) Entra ID
5 73 (10.77%) Azure Sentinel
6 55 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (5.46%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (3.98%) SaaS
9 25 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
11 21 (3.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (2.51%) Datadog
14 16 (2.36%) AWS CloudTrail
14 16 (2.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 14 (2.06%) Serverless
16 13 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (1.92%) GitHub
16 13 (1.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 114 (16.81%) Firewall
2 106 (15.63%) Network Security
3 51 (7.52%) DNS
4 43 (6.34%) TCP/IP
5 29 (4.28%) DHCP
6 27 (3.98%) WAN
7 26 (3.83%) VPN
8 25 (3.69%) HTTP
9 20 (2.95%) Intrusion Detection
9 20 (2.95%) SSL
10 19 (2.80%) VSAN
11 13 (1.92%) BGP
11 13 (1.92%) SD-WAN
12 12 (1.77%) Internet
13 10 (1.47%) VLAN
14 8 (1.18%) OSPF
14 8 (1.18%) SMTP
14 8 (1.18%) SNMP
15 7 (1.03%) LAN
15 7 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (0.74%) Hazelcast
4 4 (0.59%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.44%) Power BI
6 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.15%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (2.06%) Jenkins
1 14 (2.06%) JIRA
2 11 (1.62%) Git
2 11 (1.62%) GitLab
3 5 (0.74%) Selenium
4 3 (0.44%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.29%) MSI
6 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.15%) Subversion
6 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 242 (35.69%) Social Skills
2 97 (14.31%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (12.54%) Finance
4 76 (11.21%) Public Sector
5 48 (7.08%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (4.13%) Banking
7 20 (2.95%) Military
8 12 (1.77%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.62%) Retail
9 11 (1.62%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.47%) Law
11 8 (1.18%) Legal
11 8 (1.18%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.03%) Back Office
12 7 (1.03%) Local Government
13 6 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.44%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.44%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 129 (19.03%) Analyst
2 114 (16.81%) Security Engineer
3 80 (11.80%) Architect
4 72 (10.62%) Security Analyst
5 63 (9.29%) SOC Analyst
6 59 (8.70%) Senior
7 55 (8.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 45 (6.64%) Consultant
9 36 (5.31%) Lead
10 35 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.28%) Security Architect
11 29 (4.28%) SIEM Engineer
11 29 (4.28%) SOC Engineer
12 28 (4.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 26 (3.83%) Network Engineer
14 25 (3.69%) Security Specialist
15 24 (3.54%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 24 (3.54%) Platform Engineer
16 21 (3.10%) Operations Analyst
17 20 (2.95%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (15.04%) Terraform
2 64 (9.44%) LDAP
3 17 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (2.21%) SailPoint
5 14 (2.06%) REST
6 11 (1.62%) JSON
6 11 (1.62%) Kafka
7 10 (1.47%) ARM Templates
8 8 (1.18%) Azure Blueprints
9 7 (1.03%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.88%) FIDO
10 6 (0.88%) SAML
10 6 (0.88%) WebAuthn
11 5 (0.74%) 802.1X
11 5 (0.74%) eBPF
11 5 (0.74%) OAuth
11 5 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.59%) CSS
13 3 (0.44%) PyTorch
13 3 (0.44%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 104 (15.34%) Onboarding
2 89 (13.13%) Security Posture
3 78 (11.50%) Cyber Threat
4 69 (10.18%) Security Operations Centre
5 66 (9.73%) Cloud Native
6 46 (6.78%) Cyber Defence
7 45 (6.64%) Management Information System
8 43 (6.34%) Operational Technology
9 29 (4.28%) Data Centre
10 27 (3.98%) PKI
11 25 (3.69%) Cloud Security Posture
12 17 (2.51%) CMDB
13 16 (2.36%) CSOC
14 15 (2.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 14 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
16 13 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
17 12 (1.77%) SCADA
18 10 (1.47%) Replication
18 10 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
19 9 (1.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 152 (22.42%) Windows
2 141 (20.80%) Linux
3 39 (5.75%) Unix
4 30 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (4.13%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.03%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.59%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (54.72%) Cybersecurity
2 241 (35.55%) Incident Response
3 209 (30.83%) Security Operations
4 157 (23.16%) Cloud Security
5 150 (22.12%) Security Monitoring
6 147 (21.68%) Threat Detection
7 128 (18.88%) Vulnerability Management
8 122 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 119 (17.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 112 (16.52%) CI/CD
11 111 (16.37%) SOAR
12 110 (16.22%) Threat Intelligence
13 109 (16.08%) Security Architecture
14 99 (14.60%) ITSM
15 95 (14.01%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 93 (13.72%) DevSecOps
17 91 (13.42%) DevOps
18 88 (12.98%) Infrastructure as Code
19 83 (12.24%) Runbook
20 81 (11.95%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 156 (23.01%) Python
2 147 (21.68%) PowerShell
3 87 (12.83%) Bash
4 47 (6.93%) Kusto Query Language
5 24 (3.54%) SQL
6 21 (3.10%) Bicep
6 21 (3.10%) Java
7 20 (2.95%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (1.03%) Perl
9 3 (0.44%) Go
9 3 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.29%) C
10 2 (0.29%) Groovy
10 2 (0.29%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.15%) C#
11 1 (0.15%) Korn
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 320 (47.20%) Security Cleared
2 193 (28.47%) SC Cleared
3 141 (20.80%) CISSP
4 129 (19.03%) DV Cleared
5 80 (11.80%) CISM
6 62 (9.14%) Degree
7 52 (7.67%) Cisco Certification
8 39 (5.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 38 (5.60%) AWS Certification
10 33 (4.87%) GIAC
11 29 (4.28%) Azure Certification
12 25 (3.69%) CompTIA Security+
13 23 (3.39%) GCIH
14 22 (3.24%) CCSP
15 21 (3.10%) CEH
16 20 (2.95%) SANS
17 18 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
18 17 (2.51%) GSEC
19 16 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
19 16 (2.36%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (26.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 177 (26.11%) NIST
3 60 (8.85%) GDPR
4 50 (7.37%) NCSC
5 36 (5.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 28 (4.13%) PCI DSS
7 19 (2.80%) GRC
8 13 (1.92%) NIST 800
9 12 (1.77%) SLA
10 11 (1.62%) PMO
11 10 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (1.47%) HIPAA
12 9 (1.33%) ISO 31000
12 9 (1.33%) QA
12 9 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.74%) COBIT
13 5 (0.74%) Data Quality
13 5 (0.74%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 159 (23.45%) Active Directory
2 39 (5.75%) Docker
3 38 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.95%) Hyper-V
5 18 (2.65%) VMware NSX
6 17 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.51%) vSphere
7 8 (1.18%) NFS
8 5 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.44%) Squid
10 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.15%) Samba
11 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 69 (10.18%) Kubernetes
2 57 (8.41%) Ansible
3 32 (4.72%) QRadar
4 23 (3.39%) Progress Chef
5 15 (2.21%) Grafana
6 14 (2.06%) VxRail
7 12 (1.77%) CASB
8 8 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (1.18%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.88%) Check_MK
9 6 (0.88%) Puppet
10 5 (0.74%) Istio
10 5 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.74%) linkerd
11 4 (0.59%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.59%) Packer
11 4 (0.59%) Podman
12 3 (0.44%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.44%) Nessus
Vendors
1 190 (28.02%) Microsoft
2 118 (17.40%) Splunk
3 97 (14.31%) CyberArk
4 42 (6.19%) CrowdStrike
4 42 (6.19%) VMware
5 40 (5.90%) ServiceNow
6 33 (4.87%) Google
7 29 (4.28%) BeyondTrust
8 26 (3.83%) Zscaler
9 24 (3.54%) Palo Alto
10 23 (3.39%) Cisco
11 22 (3.24%) Red Hat
12 21 (3.10%) Oracle
13 16 (2.36%) ArcSight
14 15 (2.21%) Rapid7
15 14 (2.06%) Cribl.io
15 14 (2.06%) Qualys
15 14 (2.06%) Tenable
16 13 (1.92%) Fortinet
16 13 (1.92%) LogRhythm