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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 181 157
Rank change year-on-year -8 -24 +8
Contract jobs citing SIEM 654 419 546
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.53% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.69% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 270 374
10th Percentile £412 £413 £438
25th Percentile £471 £464 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -8.33% +0.84%
75th Percentile £629 £675 £700
90th Percentile £725 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 12 9
10th Percentile £43.81 £45.08 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £45.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £72.84 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.13% +26.67% -23.33%
75th Percentile £83.75 £85.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £98.56 £98.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £72.84 £57.50
% change year-on-year -12.13% +26.67% -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 38,365 24,818 30,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 90.70% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 15,915 19,627
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,375 1,336 1,933
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.23 £13.60
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%
75th Percentile £69.63 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -49 224 £574 -4.38% 123
South East +11 172 £523 +4.50% 94
North of England +20 119 £560 +5.41% 79
North West +24 91 £560 -15.47% 41
South West +1 55 £620 +12.73% 104
Midlands -50 40 £550 +46.67% 28
West Midlands -60 37 £550 +46.67% 18
Yorkshire -26 28 £563 +7.14% 24
East of England -36 26 £550 - 31
East Midlands -10 3 £475 - 10
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 (2.45%) Confluence
2 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 233 (35.63%) Azure
2 176 (26.91%) AWS
3 95 (14.53%) Entra ID
4 90 (13.76%) GCP
5 60 (9.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 50 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (5.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 29 (4.43%) SaaS
9 21 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (2.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 15 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (2.29%) Datadog
12 14 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.83%) IaaS
13 12 (1.83%) Serverless
14 11 (1.68%) GitHub
15 10 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 121 (18.50%) Firewall
2 104 (15.90%) Network Security
3 43 (6.57%) DNS
4 37 (5.66%) TCP/IP
5 29 (4.43%) VPN
6 26 (3.98%) WAN
7 24 (3.67%) SSL
8 23 (3.52%) Intrusion Detection
9 18 (2.75%) DHCP
9 18 (2.75%) HTTP
10 17 (2.60%) BGP
11 15 (2.29%) SD-WAN
11 15 (2.29%) VSAN
12 14 (2.14%) Internet
13 13 (1.99%) VLAN
14 12 (1.83%) IPsec
14 12 (1.83%) OSPF
15 9 (1.38%) SSH
16 8 (1.22%) NGFW
16 8 (1.22%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.82%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (0.92%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.61%) Hazelcast
4 4 (0.61%) Power BI
5 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.31%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.15%) Metadata
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (3.98%) JIRA
2 13 (1.99%) Git
3 6 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.76%) Snyk
5 4 (0.61%) Selenium
6 3 (0.46%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.31%) GitLab
8 1 (0.15%) AppScan
8 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 181 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 85 (13.00%) Finance
3 83 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (11.77%) Public Sector
5 56 (8.56%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (4.74%) Banking
7 20 (3.06%) Military
8 10 (1.53%) Retail
9 9 (1.38%) Local Government
9 9 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.22%) Law
11 7 (1.07%) Legal
12 6 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.92%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.46%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 124 (18.96%) Analyst
2 115 (17.58%) Security Engineer
3 74 (11.31%) Architect
4 60 (9.17%) Senior
5 57 (8.72%) SOC Analyst
6 52 (7.95%) Security Analyst
7 44 (6.73%) Security Architect
8 43 (6.57%) Consultant
9 39 (5.96%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 38 (5.81%) Lead
11 28 (4.28%) SOC Engineer
12 27 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
12 27 (4.13%) Network Engineer
13 26 (3.98%) SIEM Engineer
14 25 (3.82%) Security Manager
15 24 (3.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 23 (3.52%) Operations Analyst
17 20 (3.06%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 19 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
19 18 (2.75%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (3.67%) LDAP
3 17 (2.60%) SailPoint
4 11 (1.68%) REST
5 10 (1.53%) Kafka
6 9 (1.38%) 802.1X
6 9 (1.38%) LangChain
6 9 (1.38%) PyTorch
6 9 (1.38%) scikit-learn
7 6 (0.92%) Azure Blueprints
8 5 (0.76%) eBPF
8 5 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.61%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.61%) CSS
9 4 (0.61%) JSON
9 4 (0.61%) Middleware
9 4 (0.61%) OAuth
9 4 (0.61%) OpenID
9 4 (0.61%) SAML
10 3 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (14.83%) Security Posture
2 96 (14.68%) Onboarding
3 72 (11.01%) Cloud Native
4 69 (10.55%) Security Operations Centre
5 53 (8.10%) Cyber Threat
6 47 (7.19%) Operational Technology
7 40 (6.12%) Management Information System
8 35 (5.35%) Cyber Defence
9 25 (3.82%) Cloud Security Posture
10 24 (3.67%) Data Centre
11 19 (2.91%) PKI
12 18 (2.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 17 (2.60%) CSOC
14 15 (2.29%) SCADA
15 10 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.38%) CMDB
16 9 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
17 8 (1.22%) Product Ownership
18 7 (1.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 146 (22.32%) Linux
2 145 (22.17%) Windows
3 42 (6.42%) Unix
4 28 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (4.13%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.07%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.15%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (53.82%) Cybersecurity
2 215 (32.87%) Incident Response
3 214 (32.72%) Security Operations
4 134 (20.49%) Cloud Security
5 120 (18.35%) CI/CD
6 111 (16.97%) Vulnerability Management
7 109 (16.67%) Threat Detection
8 105 (16.06%) Security Monitoring
9 100 (15.29%) SOAR
10 97 (14.83%) DevOps
11 93 (14.22%) Security Architecture
12 92 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 90 (13.76%) Threat Intelligence
14 88 (13.46%) Zero Trust
15 77 (11.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 77 (11.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 75 (11.47%) Stakeholder Management
17 72 (11.01%) DevSecOps
17 72 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
18 70 (10.70%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 158 (24.16%) Python
2 131 (20.03%) PowerShell
3 74 (11.31%) Bash
4 45 (6.88%) Kusto Query Language
5 21 (3.21%) SQL
6 20 (3.06%) Java
7 14 (2.14%) Search Processing Language
8 13 (1.99%) Bicep
9 7 (1.07%) Perl
10 3 (0.46%) Groovy
10 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.31%) C
11 2 (0.31%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.15%) Lisp
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 271 (41.44%) Security Cleared
2 173 (26.45%) SC Cleared
3 135 (20.64%) CISSP
4 87 (13.30%) DV Cleared
5 74 (11.31%) CISM
6 64 (9.79%) Cisco Certification
7 63 (9.63%) Degree
8 41 (6.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 33 (5.05%) AWS Certification
10 28 (4.28%) GIAC
11 24 (3.67%) Azure Certification
11 24 (3.67%) CCSP
11 24 (3.67%) CompTIA Security+
12 22 (3.36%) CCNP
13 20 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
14 19 (2.91%) GCIH
15 18 (2.75%) CEH
15 18 (2.75%) CompTIA CySA+
16 16 (2.45%) SANS
17 15 (2.29%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (23.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 142 (21.71%) NIST
3 73 (11.16%) GDPR
4 41 (6.27%) NCSC
5 31 (4.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 28 (4.28%) PCI DSS
7 17 (2.60%) GRC
8 15 (2.29%) HIPAA
8 15 (2.29%) PMO
9 14 (2.14%) SLA
10 11 (1.68%) SOC 2
11 10 (1.53%) NIST 800
11 10 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (1.38%) ISO 31000
13 8 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (1.22%) QA
14 5 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.76%) Data Quality
15 4 (0.61%) COBIT
15 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 113 (17.28%) Active Directory
2 34 (5.20%) Docker
3 25 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.99%) VMware NSX
5 12 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.83%) vSphere
6 11 (1.68%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.92%) Snort
9 4 (0.61%) Squid
10 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) NFS
11 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.15%) Samba
11 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 81 (12.39%) Terraform
2 59 (9.02%) Kubernetes
3 48 (7.34%) Ansible
4 30 (4.59%) QRadar
5 20 (3.06%) CASB
6 15 (2.29%) Progress Chef
7 10 (1.53%) Grafana
7 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.22%) VxRail
9 7 (1.07%) CSIRT
10 6 (0.92%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.92%) Puppet
11 5 (0.76%) Check_MK
11 5 (0.76%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.76%) Kibana
12 4 (0.61%) logstash
12 4 (0.61%) Nessus
12 4 (0.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 172 (26.30%) Microsoft
2 108 (16.51%) Splunk
3 72 (11.01%) CyberArk
4 47 (7.19%) ServiceNow
5 41 (6.27%) BeyondTrust
5 41 (6.27%) CrowdStrike
6 35 (5.35%) Google
7 34 (5.20%) Cisco
8 30 (4.59%) Zscaler
9 29 (4.43%) VMware
10 24 (3.67%) Qualys
11 23 (3.52%) Oracle
12 22 (3.36%) Fortinet
13 20 (3.06%) Palo Alto
13 20 (3.06%) Red Hat
13 20 (3.06%) Tenable
14 19 (2.91%) Tanium
15 16 (2.45%) Okta
16 12 (1.83%) LogRhythm
17 11 (1.68%) Trend Micro