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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 180 150
Rank change year-on-year +11 -30 +10
Contract jobs citing SIEM 630 358 580
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.53% 1.49% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.64% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 239 414
10th Percentile £413 £404 £425
25th Percentile £475 £485 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £652 £647 £713
90th Percentile £750 £769 £825
UK median daily rate £572 £550 £595
% change year-on-year +3.95% -7.56% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 3 6
10th Percentile £37.72 £52.67 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £63.04 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £80.68 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.92% +101.69% -46.67%
75th Percentile £70.15 £81.01 £63.44
90th Percentile £83.75 - £74.63
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £80.68 £40.00
% change year-on-year -31.83% +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 34,973 21,894 31,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 91.30% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,266 14,295 20,565
10th Percentile £325 £305 £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 £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 929 2,246
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%
75th Percentile £68.00 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.44 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.05
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.82% +0.13%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 0 239 £588 -2.08% 110
South East +13 167 £525 +2.19% 108
North of England -14 82 £558 -7.08% 75
North West +12 67 £568 +4.70% 36
Midlands -65 47 £545 - 31
South West +10 45 £600 +9.09% 54
West Midlands -59 41 £550 +0.92% 27
East of England -35 26 £550 - 38
Yorkshire -54 13 £540 -10.00% 28
East Midlands - 6 £438 - 4
North East - 2 £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 18 (2.86%) Confluence
2 6 (0.95%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.16%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.16%) nginx
4 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.79%) Maximo
1 5 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 243 (38.57%) Azure
2 179 (28.41%) AWS
3 105 (16.67%) GCP
4 79 (12.54%) Entra ID
5 66 (10.48%) Azure Sentinel
6 47 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (3.81%) Microsoft Purview
7 24 (3.81%) OpenShift
8 21 (3.33%) SaaS
9 20 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (2.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (2.22%) PaaS
13 12 (1.90%) IaaS
14 11 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (1.75%) Datadog
15 10 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.59%) GitHub
16 9 (1.43%) Serverless
17 8 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 95 (15.08%) Network Security
2 91 (14.44%) Firewall
3 44 (6.98%) DNS
4 35 (5.56%) VPN
5 33 (5.24%) TCP/IP
6 23 (3.65%) SSL
7 13 (2.06%) DHCP
7 13 (2.06%) HTTP
7 13 (2.06%) Intrusion Detection
8 12 (1.90%) VLAN
8 12 (1.90%) WAN
9 10 (1.59%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.43%) BGP
10 9 (1.43%) IPsec
11 8 (1.27%) OSPF
12 7 (1.11%) Internet
12 7 (1.11%) NGFW
12 7 (1.11%) SNMP
12 7 (1.11%) SSH
13 6 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.63%) 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 27 (4.29%) JIRA
2 14 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.43%) Git
4 7 (1.11%) Snyk
5 3 (0.48%) GitLab
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
1 189 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 78 (12.38%) Finance
3 77 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (10.32%) Public Sector
5 59 (9.37%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (3.33%) Banking
7 17 (2.70%) Military
8 15 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.27%) Retail
10 7 (1.11%) Legal
11 6 (0.95%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.79%) Local Government
13 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.48%) Law
15 2 (0.32%) Advertising
15 2 (0.32%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.16%) Investment Banking
16 1 (0.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 123 (19.52%) Architect
2 115 (18.25%) Analyst
3 110 (17.46%) Security Engineer
4 56 (8.89%) Senior
5 55 (8.73%) SOC Analyst
6 53 (8.41%) CyberArk Architect
7 42 (6.67%) Security Analyst
8 40 (6.35%) SIEM Engineer
9 36 (5.71%) Security Architect
10 33 (5.24%) Consultant
11 32 (5.08%) Lead
12 27 (4.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 23 (3.65%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 22 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
15 20 (3.17%) Security Manager
15 20 (3.17%) SOC Engineer
16 19 (3.02%) Security Specialist
17 17 (2.70%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 17 (2.70%) Cybersecurity Specialist
18 14 (2.22%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (11.59%) LDAP
2 48 (7.62%) REST
3 40 (6.35%) Elastic Stack
4 35 (5.56%) SOAP
5 20 (3.17%) OpenID
5 20 (3.17%) SAML
6 11 (1.75%) SailPoint
7 10 (1.59%) 802.1X
8 9 (1.43%) Kafka
9 7 (1.11%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.11%) OAuth
10 6 (0.95%) LangChain
10 6 (0.95%) OAuth2
10 6 (0.95%) PyTorch
10 6 (0.95%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.79%) eBPF
11 5 (0.79%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.63%) ADO
12 4 (0.63%) JSON
12 4 (0.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 97 (15.40%) Security Posture
2 81 (12.86%) Onboarding
3 65 (10.32%) Security Operations Centre
4 60 (9.52%) Cloud Native
5 52 (8.25%) Cyber Threat
6 44 (6.98%) Operational Technology
7 41 (6.51%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (5.08%) Management Information System
9 20 (3.17%) Cyber Defence
10 19 (3.02%) Cloud Security Posture
11 17 (2.70%) Cyberattack
12 15 (2.38%) CSOC
13 13 (2.06%) Data Centre
13 13 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (2.06%) PKI
13 13 (2.06%) SCADA
14 11 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.75%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 9 (1.43%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 117 (18.57%) Windows
2 115 (18.25%) Linux
3 32 (5.08%) Unix
4 29 (4.60%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.16%) VMS
7 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (48.10%) Cybersecurity
2 190 (30.16%) Incident Response
3 188 (29.84%) Security Operations
4 116 (18.41%) Cloud Security
5 115 (18.25%) Threat Detection
6 112 (17.78%) CI/CD
7 111 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
8 106 (16.83%) DevOps
9 99 (15.71%) SOAR
10 92 (14.60%) Vulnerability Management
11 91 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 89 (14.13%) ITSM
13 86 (13.65%) Security Architecture
14 83 (13.17%) Zero Trust
15 71 (11.27%) Privileged Access Management
16 70 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
17 68 (10.79%) Threat Intelligence
18 65 (10.32%) MITRE ATT&CK
19 64 (10.16%) Threat Modelling
20 62 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 177 (28.10%) Python
2 160 (25.40%) PowerShell
3 48 (7.62%) Kusto Query Language
4 43 (6.83%) Bash
5 15 (2.38%) Bicep
6 13 (2.06%) SQL
7 12 (1.90%) Search Processing Language
8 6 (0.95%) Java
9 3 (0.48%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.32%) Groovy
10 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.16%) Lisp
11 1 (0.16%) Perl
11 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 296 (46.98%) Security Cleared
2 220 (34.92%) SC Cleared
3 124 (19.68%) CISSP
4 75 (11.90%) CISM
5 74 (11.75%) DV Cleared
6 50 (7.94%) Cisco Certification
6 50 (7.94%) Degree
7 36 (5.71%) GIAC
8 33 (5.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 25 (3.97%) CEH
9 25 (3.97%) CompTIA Security+
10 21 (3.33%) Azure Certification
11 17 (2.70%) CCSP
12 15 (2.38%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.38%) CCNP
12 15 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (2.06%) GCIH
13 13 (2.06%) SANS
14 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (1.75%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (23.81%) NIST
2 139 (22.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 63 (10.00%) GDPR
4 32 (5.08%) NCSC
5 25 (3.97%) PCI DSS
6 23 (3.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (2.06%) HIPAA
7 13 (2.06%) NIST 800
7 13 (2.06%) SLA
7 13 (2.06%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.59%) PMO
8 10 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.43%) GRC
9 9 (1.43%) ISO 31000
10 8 (1.27%) QA
11 6 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.79%) COBIT
13 4 (0.63%) JSP 440
System Software
1 123 (19.52%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.22%) Docker
4 7 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.11%) Snort
4 7 (1.11%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.79%) Squid
7 3 (0.48%) vSphere
8 2 (0.32%) NFS
8 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.16%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 60 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 60 (9.52%) Terraform
2 29 (4.60%) Ansible
3 21 (3.33%) QRadar
4 20 (3.17%) Kibana
5 18 (2.86%) CASB
6 12 (1.90%) logstash
6 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.43%) Grafana
8 8 (1.27%) Nessus
9 5 (0.79%) CSIRT
9 5 (0.79%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.79%) SCCM
9 5 (0.79%) WSUS
10 4 (0.63%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.48%) Icinga
11 3 (0.48%) Suricata
12 2 (0.32%) SCOM
12 2 (0.32%) vRealize
Vendors
1 157 (24.92%) Microsoft
2 124 (19.68%) Splunk
3 104 (16.51%) CyberArk
4 70 (11.11%) BeyondTrust
5 36 (5.71%) Centrify
5 36 (5.71%) Cisco
6 33 (5.24%) ServiceNow
7 32 (5.08%) CrowdStrike
8 30 (4.76%) Qualys
9 24 (3.81%) Tanium
9 24 (3.81%) Zscaler
10 23 (3.65%) Tenable
11 21 (3.33%) Palo Alto
11 21 (3.33%) VMware
12 19 (3.02%) Fortinet
13 16 (2.54%) LogRhythm
14 14 (2.22%) Google
15 13 (2.06%) Oracle
16 12 (1.90%) IBM
17 11 (1.75%) Okta