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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 193 158
Rank change year-on-year +6 -35 -8
Contract jobs citing SIEM 659 380 579
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.41% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.55% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 246 398
10th Percentile £413 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £630 £669 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 6 8
10th Percentile £42.22 £45.75 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £54.40 £40.00
Median hourly rate £58.75 £80.68 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +65.49% -35.00%
75th Percentile £82.19 £95.25 £72.50
90th Percentile £84.63 £102.75 £76.78
UK median hourly rate £58.75 £80.68 £48.75
% change year-on-year -27.18% +65.49% -35.00%

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 38,237 24,502 31,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.52% 90.81% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,096 15,746 20,754
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,253 2,276
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.01 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.37 £70.16 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -20 233 £573 -4.58% 144
South East +20 173 £525 +5.00% 103
North of England -3 111 £558 -7.08% 66
North West +21 84 £558 -8.79% 36
South West +4 49 £613 +1.03% 56
Midlands -51 48 £545 +12.37% 25
West Midlands -59 42 £550 +13.40% 20
Yorkshire -34 27 £550 -8.33% 19
East of England -35 23 £550 - 32
East Midlands -9 6 £442 - 5
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 (2.28%) Confluence
2 5 (0.76%) 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 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 223 (33.84%) Azure
2 163 (24.73%) AWS
3 92 (13.96%) Entra ID
4 86 (13.05%) GCP
5 59 (8.95%) Azure Sentinel
6 45 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (5.01%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (4.10%) SaaS
9 22 (3.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (2.58%) OpenShift
11 16 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (2.12%) Datadog
14 13 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (1.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 12 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
16 11 (1.67%) IaaS
16 11 (1.67%) Serverless
17 10 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (1.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 114 (17.30%) Firewall
2 111 (16.84%) Network Security
3 40 (6.07%) DNS
4 32 (4.86%) TCP/IP
5 31 (4.70%) VPN
6 26 (3.95%) WAN
7 24 (3.64%) SSL
8 22 (3.34%) Intrusion Detection
9 18 (2.73%) BGP
10 16 (2.43%) HTTP
10 16 (2.43%) SD-WAN
11 15 (2.28%) Internet
12 13 (1.97%) DHCP
12 13 (1.97%) OSPF
12 13 (1.97%) VLAN
13 12 (1.82%) IPsec
14 10 (1.52%) VSAN
15 9 (1.37%) SSH
16 8 (1.21%) NGFW
16 8 (1.21%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.79%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.61%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.61%) Power BI
4 3 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.30%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.15%) Metadata
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (3.95%) JIRA
2 16 (2.43%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.97%) Git
4 6 (0.91%) Snyk
5 2 (0.30%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.30%) GitLab
6 1 (0.15%) AppScan
6 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.15%) Subversion
6 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 185 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 93 (14.11%) Finance
3 78 (11.84%) Public Sector
4 76 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (9.86%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (4.40%) Banking
7 20 (3.03%) Military
8 13 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.52%) Local Government
10 9 (1.37%) Retail
11 7 (1.06%) Legal
12 6 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.91%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.46%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.46%) Law
15 2 (0.30%) Advertising
15 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 128 (19.42%) Analyst
2 110 (16.69%) Security Engineer
3 86 (13.05%) Architect
4 62 (9.41%) Senior
5 57 (8.65%) SOC Analyst
6 56 (8.50%) Security Analyst
7 44 (6.68%) Security Architect
8 43 (6.53%) Consultant
9 38 (5.77%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 38 (5.77%) Lead
10 33 (5.01%) SIEM Engineer
11 27 (4.10%) Network Engineer
12 26 (3.95%) Security Manager
13 25 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
14 24 (3.64%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 23 (3.49%) Operations Analyst
16 22 (3.34%) SOC Engineer
17 21 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
18 19 (2.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 19 (2.88%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.86%) LDAP
2 31 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
3 18 (2.73%) SAML
4 17 (2.58%) OpenID
5 14 (2.12%) SailPoint
6 11 (1.67%) REST
7 9 (1.37%) 802.1X
7 9 (1.37%) LangChain
7 9 (1.37%) PyTorch
7 9 (1.37%) scikit-learn
8 8 (1.21%) Kafka
9 6 (0.91%) OAuth
10 5 (0.76%) eBPF
10 5 (0.76%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.61%) Azure Blueprints
11 4 (0.61%) CSS
11 4 (0.61%) JSON
11 4 (0.61%) Middleware
12 3 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (14.72%) Onboarding
2 92 (13.96%) Security Posture
3 76 (11.53%) Cloud Native
4 71 (10.77%) Security Operations Centre
5 53 (8.04%) Cyber Threat
6 48 (7.28%) Operational Technology
7 40 (6.07%) Management Information System
8 30 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
9 20 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
10 19 (2.88%) Data Centre
11 17 (2.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 15 (2.28%) PKI
12 15 (2.28%) SCADA
13 14 (2.12%) CSOC
14 10 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.52%) Product Ownership
15 8 (1.21%) CMDB
15 8 (1.21%) Cyberattack
15 8 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
16 6 (0.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 137 (20.79%) Windows
2 136 (20.64%) Linux
3 41 (6.22%) Unix
4 27 (4.10%) Windows Server
5 23 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.21%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.61%) 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
1 355 (53.87%) Cybersecurity
2 220 (33.38%) Security Operations
3 218 (33.08%) Incident Response
4 131 (19.88%) Cloud Security
5 125 (18.97%) CI/CD
6 112 (17.00%) DevOps
7 111 (16.84%) Threat Detection
8 110 (16.69%) Vulnerability Management
9 99 (15.02%) SOAR
10 95 (14.42%) Security Architecture
11 91 (13.81%) Security Monitoring
12 90 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 89 (13.51%) Zero Trust
14 85 (12.90%) Threat Intelligence
15 78 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
16 74 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 74 (11.23%) Stakeholder Management
17 71 (10.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
17 71 (10.77%) ITSM
18 70 (10.62%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 157 (23.82%) Python
2 130 (19.73%) PowerShell
3 62 (9.41%) Bash
4 49 (7.44%) Kusto Query Language
5 17 (2.58%) SQL
6 15 (2.28%) Java
7 14 (2.12%) Search Processing Language
8 10 (1.52%) Bicep
9 7 (1.06%) Perl
10 3 (0.46%) Groovy
10 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.30%) C
12 1 (0.15%) Lisp
12 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 285 (43.25%) Security Cleared
2 188 (28.53%) SC Cleared
3 137 (20.79%) CISSP
4 85 (12.90%) DV Cleared
5 76 (11.53%) CISM
6 62 (9.41%) Degree
7 61 (9.26%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (5.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 35 (5.31%) GIAC
10 27 (4.10%) AWS Certification
11 23 (3.49%) CompTIA Security+
12 22 (3.34%) CCNP
13 21 (3.19%) CCSP
14 20 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
15 19 (2.88%) Azure Certification
15 19 (2.88%) CEH
16 17 (2.58%) GCIH
17 16 (2.43%) CompTIA CySA+
18 15 (2.28%) SANS
19 14 (2.12%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (25.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 158 (23.98%) NIST
3 73 (11.08%) GDPR
4 49 (7.44%) NCSC
5 29 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 29 (4.40%) PCI DSS
6 16 (2.43%) GRC
6 16 (2.43%) PMO
7 14 (2.12%) HIPAA
7 14 (2.12%) SLA
7 14 (2.12%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.37%) ISO 31000
9 9 (1.37%) NIST 800
10 8 (1.21%) QA
11 7 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.76%) Data Quality
14 4 (0.61%) COBIT
System Software
1 102 (15.48%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.49%) Docker
3 19 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.21%) VMware NSX
5 8 (1.21%) vSphere
6 7 (1.06%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.91%) Snort
8 4 (0.61%) Squid
9 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.15%) NFS
10 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.15%) Samba
10 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 77 (11.68%) Terraform
2 62 (9.41%) Kubernetes
3 45 (6.83%) Ansible
4 26 (3.95%) QRadar
5 20 (3.03%) CASB
6 12 (1.82%) Progress Chef
6 12 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.67%) Kibana
8 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.37%) Grafana
10 8 (1.21%) logstash
11 7 (1.06%) CSIRT
12 6 (0.91%) Prometheus
12 6 (0.91%) Puppet
13 5 (0.76%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.61%) Nessus
14 4 (0.61%) Packer
15 3 (0.46%) Suricata
15 3 (0.46%) VxRail
Vendors
1 174 (26.40%) Microsoft
2 120 (18.21%) Splunk
3 76 (11.53%) CyberArk
4 44 (6.68%) ServiceNow
5 43 (6.53%) BeyondTrust
6 40 (6.07%) CrowdStrike
7 36 (5.46%) Cisco
8 32 (4.86%) Google
9 28 (4.25%) Zscaler
10 26 (3.95%) Qualys
11 24 (3.64%) Fortinet
11 24 (3.64%) Oracle
12 23 (3.49%) Tanium
13 22 (3.34%) Palo Alto
13 22 (3.34%) Tenable
14 21 (3.19%) VMware
15 16 (2.43%) Okta
15 16 (2.43%) Red Hat
16 13 (1.97%) LogRhythm
17 11 (1.67%) ArcSight