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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 181 154
Rank change year-on-year -5 -27 +8
Contract jobs citing SIEM 662 419 560
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.53% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.69% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 269 385
10th Percentile £413 £418 £425
25th Percentile £475 £468 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -6.78% -
75th Percentile £631 £675 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £552 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +0.36% -6.38% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 9
10th Percentile £43.81 £45.75 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.38 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.25 £80.68 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% +40.30% -23.33%
75th Percentile £83.75 £85.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £97.00 £100.00 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £63.25 £80.68 £57.50
% change year-on-year -21.60% +40.30% -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 38,301 24,864 30,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 90.66% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,041 15,953 19,995
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,379 1,324 2,046
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.23 £13.22
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.90
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%
75th Percentile £69.10 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.39 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -34 232 £575 -8.00% 83
South East +5 171 £525 +5.00% 96
North of England +7 116 £560 +4.19% 66
North West +16 88 £560 -8.38% 33
South West +5 53 £613 +11.36% 46
Midlands -38 44 £550 +27.91% 24
West Midlands -58 40 £550 +27.91% 16
Yorkshire -33 28 £563 +7.14% 21
East of England -33 26 £550 - 27
East Midlands -11 4 £461 - 8
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 15 (2.27%) Confluence
2 4 (0.60%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 229 (34.59%) Azure
2 170 (25.68%) AWS
3 97 (14.65%) Entra ID
4 87 (13.14%) GCP
5 61 (9.21%) Azure Sentinel
6 50 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (5.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 29 (4.38%) SaaS
9 21 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 16 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 15 (2.27%) OpenShift
12 14 (2.11%) Datadog
13 13 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (1.81%) IaaS
15 11 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (1.66%) GitHub
15 11 (1.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 118 (17.82%) Firewall
2 104 (15.71%) Network Security
3 43 (6.50%) DNS
4 36 (5.44%) TCP/IP
5 30 (4.53%) VPN
6 26 (3.93%) WAN
7 23 (3.47%) Intrusion Detection
7 23 (3.47%) SSL
8 18 (2.72%) BGP
9 17 (2.57%) DHCP
9 17 (2.57%) HTTP
10 15 (2.27%) Internet
10 15 (2.27%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.96%) OSPF
11 13 (1.96%) VLAN
11 13 (1.96%) VSAN
12 12 (1.81%) IPsec
13 9 (1.36%) SSH
14 8 (1.21%) NGFW
14 8 (1.21%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.78%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (0.91%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (0.60%) Power BI
6 3 (0.45%) Hazelcast
6 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.30%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.30%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.15%) Metadata
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (3.93%) JIRA
2 14 (2.11%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.96%) Git
4 5 (0.76%) Snyk
5 3 (0.45%) Claude Code
5 3 (0.45%) Selenium
6 2 (0.30%) GitLab
7 1 (0.15%) AppScan
7 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.15%) Subversion
7 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 186 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 93 (14.05%) Finance
3 83 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (11.78%) Public Sector
5 64 (9.67%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (4.53%) Banking
7 20 (3.02%) Military
8 11 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.51%) Retail
10 9 (1.36%) Local Government
11 8 (1.21%) Law
11 8 (1.21%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.06%) Legal
13 6 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.91%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.45%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 123 (18.58%) Analyst
2 113 (17.07%) Security Engineer
3 82 (12.39%) Architect
4 61 (9.21%) Senior
5 57 (8.61%) SOC Analyst
6 53 (8.01%) Security Analyst
7 44 (6.65%) Consultant
7 44 (6.65%) Security Architect
8 39 (5.89%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 38 (5.74%) Lead
10 28 (4.23%) SIEM Engineer
10 28 (4.23%) SOC Engineer
11 27 (4.08%) Network Engineer
12 26 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 26 (3.93%) Security Manager
13 24 (3.63%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 23 (3.47%) Operations Analyst
15 20 (3.02%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 18 (2.72%) Security Specialist
16 18 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.68%) LDAP
2 28 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (2.42%) SailPoint
4 15 (2.27%) SAML
5 14 (2.11%) OpenID
6 12 (1.81%) REST
7 10 (1.51%) Kafka
8 9 (1.36%) 802.1X
8 9 (1.36%) LangChain
8 9 (1.36%) PyTorch
8 9 (1.36%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.76%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (0.76%) eBPF
9 5 (0.76%) OAuth
9 5 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.60%) CSS
10 4 (0.60%) JSON
10 4 (0.60%) Middleware
10 4 (0.60%) OAuth2
11 3 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (15.41%) Onboarding
2 96 (14.50%) Security Posture
3 78 (11.78%) Cloud Native
4 71 (10.73%) Security Operations Centre
5 51 (7.70%) Cyber Threat
6 48 (7.25%) Operational Technology
7 40 (6.04%) Management Information System
8 34 (5.14%) Cyber Defence
9 24 (3.63%) Cloud Security Posture
10 23 (3.47%) Data Centre
11 17 (2.57%) CSOC
11 17 (2.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 17 (2.57%) PKI
12 15 (2.27%) SCADA
13 10 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.36%) Product Ownership
15 8 (1.21%) CMDB
15 8 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
16 7 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 143 (21.60%) Windows
2 142 (21.45%) Linux
3 42 (6.34%) Unix
4 28 (4.23%) Windows Server
5 26 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.21%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.15%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (54.08%) Cybersecurity
2 218 (32.93%) Security Operations
3 215 (32.48%) Incident Response
4 133 (20.09%) Cloud Security
5 126 (19.03%) CI/CD
6 111 (16.77%) Vulnerability Management
7 106 (16.01%) DevOps
7 106 (16.01%) Threat Detection
8 104 (15.71%) Security Monitoring
9 101 (15.26%) SOAR
10 94 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 94 (14.20%) Security Architecture
11 90 (13.60%) Threat Intelligence
12 88 (13.29%) Zero Trust
13 82 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 79 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 76 (11.48%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 76 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
16 73 (11.03%) Use Case
17 72 (10.88%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 155 (23.41%) Python
2 128 (19.34%) PowerShell
3 69 (10.42%) Bash
4 46 (6.95%) Kusto Query Language
5 21 (3.17%) SQL
6 18 (2.72%) Java
7 15 (2.27%) Search Processing Language
8 12 (1.81%) Bicep
9 7 (1.06%) Perl
10 3 (0.45%) Groovy
10 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.30%) C
11 2 (0.30%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.15%) Lisp
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 280 (42.30%) Security Cleared
2 182 (27.49%) SC Cleared
3 134 (20.24%) CISSP
4 86 (12.99%) DV Cleared
5 76 (11.48%) CISM
6 64 (9.67%) Cisco Certification
7 62 (9.37%) Degree
8 41 (6.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 30 (4.53%) AWS Certification
9 30 (4.53%) GIAC
10 24 (3.63%) CompTIA Security+
11 23 (3.47%) Azure Certification
11 23 (3.47%) CCSP
12 22 (3.32%) CCNP
13 20 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (2.72%) CompTIA CySA+
14 18 (2.72%) GCIH
15 17 (2.57%) CEH
16 16 (2.42%) SANS
17 15 (2.27%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (24.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 153 (23.11%) NIST
3 73 (11.03%) GDPR
4 52 (7.85%) NCSC
5 31 (4.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 29 (4.38%) PCI DSS
7 17 (2.57%) GRC
8 16 (2.42%) PMO
9 15 (2.27%) HIPAA
10 14 (2.11%) SLA
11 12 (1.81%) SOC 2
12 10 (1.51%) NIST 800
12 10 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (1.36%) ISO 31000
14 8 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (1.21%) QA
15 5 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.76%) Data Quality
15 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 110 (16.62%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.53%) Docker
3 24 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.66%) VMware NSX
5 11 (1.66%) vSphere
6 10 (1.51%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.91%) Snort
9 4 (0.60%) Squid
10 2 (0.30%) 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 79 (11.93%) Terraform
2 65 (9.82%) Kubernetes
3 48 (7.25%) Ansible
4 30 (4.53%) QRadar
5 20 (3.02%) CASB
6 14 (2.11%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.36%) Grafana
10 7 (1.06%) CSIRT
11 6 (0.91%) Kibana
11 6 (0.91%) logstash
11 6 (0.91%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.91%) Puppet
11 6 (0.91%) VxRail
12 5 (0.76%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.60%) Check_MK
13 4 (0.60%) Nessus
13 4 (0.60%) Packer
Vendors
1 176 (26.59%) Microsoft
2 120 (18.13%) Splunk
3 79 (11.93%) CyberArk
4 47 (7.10%) ServiceNow
5 41 (6.19%) BeyondTrust
5 41 (6.19%) CrowdStrike
6 36 (5.44%) Cisco
7 34 (5.14%) Google
8 29 (4.38%) Zscaler
9 27 (4.08%) VMware
10 25 (3.78%) Qualys
11 24 (3.63%) Oracle
12 23 (3.47%) Fortinet
13 21 (3.17%) Palo Alto
14 20 (3.02%) Tenable
15 19 (2.87%) Tanium
16 18 (2.72%) Red Hat
17 16 (2.42%) Okta
18 12 (1.81%) LogRhythm
19 11 (1.66%) Trend Micro