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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 187 164
Rank change year-on-year +36 -23 +136
Contract jobs citing SIEM 568 395 566
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.79% 1.38% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 1.56% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 263 429
10th Percentile £406 £406 £473
25th Percentile £463 £504 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £725
90th Percentile £750 £800 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 2
10th Percentile £41.94 - £63.75
25th Percentile £45.00 £56.25 £65.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -16.36% +4.96%
75th Percentile £83.75 £58.75 £71.88
90th Percentile £86.00 - £73.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -17.86% +6.87%

All Process and 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 28,123 25,389 32,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.50% 88.70% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,892 15,664 22,179
10th Percentile £300 £313 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,806 836 1,435
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.44
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.43 £19.09
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.09%
75th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025. 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 +37 245 £575 - 62
South East +51 127 £492 -12.69% 135
Midlands -39 59 £525 -12.50% 98
West Midlands -31 52 £545 -9.17% 54
North of England -32 45 £500 -16.67% 117
South West -18 43 £545 -16.15% 64
East of England -4 29 £575 +2.22% 81
North West -13 25 £479 -8.81% 64
Yorkshire -29 17 £529 -18.65% 43
East Midlands - 7 £450 - 38
North East -7 3 £400 +14.29% 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 9 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (0.88%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.35%) Confluence
4 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.18%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.06%) Maximo
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 235 (41.37%) Azure
2 196 (34.51%) AWS
3 97 (17.08%) GCP
4 86 (15.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 58 (10.21%) Microsoft 365
6 41 (7.22%) Entra ID
7 22 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
8 19 (3.35%) SaaS
9 17 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (2.64%) GitHub
11 13 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.58%) PaaS
15 8 (1.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 8 (1.41%) IaaS
15 8 (1.41%) OpenShift
16 7 (1.23%) Azure AKS
16 7 (1.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 140 (24.65%) Firewall
2 107 (18.84%) Network Security
3 51 (8.98%) DNS
4 37 (6.51%) TCP/IP
4 37 (6.51%) VPN
5 21 (3.70%) SMTP
5 21 (3.70%) SSL
6 19 (3.35%) HTTP
7 16 (2.82%) DHCP
8 14 (2.46%) FTP
8 14 (2.46%) Intrusion Detection
9 11 (1.94%) Internet
10 9 (1.58%) LAN
10 9 (1.58%) WAN
11 7 (1.23%) BGP
12 6 (1.06%) Wireshark
13 5 (0.88%) DKIM
13 5 (0.88%) DMARC
13 5 (0.88%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.58%) Data Lake
1 9 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (0.70%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.35%) Power BI
4 1 (0.18%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.18%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (1.58%) JIRA
2 8 (1.41%) CircleCI
2 8 (1.41%) GitLab
3 7 (1.23%) Snyk
4 5 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.70%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.53%) Git
7 2 (0.35%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.35%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.18%) JUnit
8 1 (0.18%) MLflow
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 206 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 112 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (11.27%) Finance
4 61 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 45 (7.92%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (3.52%) Banking
7 16 (2.82%) Legal
8 13 (2.29%) Military
8 13 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.41%) Retail
11 6 (1.06%) Back Office
11 6 (1.06%) Local Government
11 6 (1.06%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.35%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.18%) Games
14 1 (0.18%) Law
14 1 (0.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 126 (22.18%) Security Engineer
2 123 (21.65%) Analyst
3 99 (17.43%) Architect
4 60 (10.56%) SOC Analyst
5 58 (10.21%) Security Analyst
6 57 (10.04%) Senior
7 50 (8.80%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 49 (8.63%) SIEM Engineer
9 45 (7.92%) Security Architect
10 33 (5.81%) Lead
11 26 (4.58%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 25 (4.40%) CyberArk Architect
13 21 (3.70%) Consultant
14 19 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
15 18 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
15 18 (3.17%) SOC Engineer
16 17 (2.99%) Security Manager
17 16 (2.82%) Security Consultant
18 15 (2.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 13 (2.29%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (10.56%) LDAP
2 36 (6.34%) REST
3 24 (4.23%) SOAP
4 19 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (1.58%) SAML
6 6 (1.06%) ARM Templates
6 6 (1.06%) JSON
6 6 (1.06%) Kafka
6 6 (1.06%) Loki
6 6 (1.06%) OpenID
7 5 (0.88%) .NET
7 5 (0.88%) OAuth
8 4 (0.70%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.70%) Regular Expression
9 3 (0.53%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.53%) Node.js
9 3 (0.53%) YAML
10 2 (0.35%) eBPF
10 2 (0.35%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 84 (14.79%) Security Operations Centre
2 83 (14.61%) Security Posture
3 62 (10.92%) Cyber Threat
4 42 (7.39%) Onboarding
5 39 (6.87%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (6.16%) Management Information System
7 32 (5.63%) Cyber Defence
8 28 (4.93%) CSOC
9 27 (4.75%) Cloud Native
10 24 (4.23%) Operational Technology
11 21 (3.70%) Cyberattack
12 20 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
13 19 (3.35%) PKI
14 18 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (2.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 13 (2.29%) Cyber Security Posture
16 11 (1.94%) Cloud Security Posture
17 9 (1.58%) Data Centre
18 8 (1.41%) Public Cloud
19 6 (1.06%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 103 (18.13%) Windows
2 99 (17.43%) Linux
3 21 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.52%) Unix
5 17 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.88%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.70%) CentOS
8 3 (0.53%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.35%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (51.58%) Cybersecurity
2 238 (41.90%) Incident Response
3 179 (31.51%) Security Operations
4 138 (24.30%) SOAR
5 133 (23.42%) Threat Detection
6 123 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
7 110 (19.37%) Cloud Security
8 86 (15.14%) Vulnerability Management
9 75 (13.20%) CI/CD
10 74 (13.03%) DevOps
11 66 (11.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 65 (11.44%) Information Security
12 65 (11.44%) Threat Intelligence
13 64 (11.27%) Threat Modelling
14 63 (11.09%) Security Monitoring
15 62 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
16 58 (10.21%) Security Architecture
16 58 (10.21%) Zero Trust
17 57 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
17 57 (10.04%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 196 (34.51%) Python
2 187 (32.92%) PowerShell
3 61 (10.74%) Kusto Query Language
4 41 (7.22%) Bash
5 17 (2.99%) Bicep
6 9 (1.58%) Java
6 9 (1.58%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.88%) Search Processing Language
7 5 (0.88%) SQL
8 4 (0.70%) Go
9 3 (0.53%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.35%) C
10 2 (0.35%) C++
10 2 (0.35%) PHP
10 2 (0.35%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.35%) VBScript
11 1 (0.18%) Korn
11 1 (0.18%) R
11 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 238 (41.90%) Security Cleared
2 195 (34.33%) SC Cleared
3 141 (24.82%) CISSP
4 68 (11.97%) CISM
5 58 (10.21%) DV Cleared
6 56 (9.86%) Degree
7 44 (7.75%) CEH
8 41 (7.22%) GIAC
9 39 (6.87%) CompTIA Security+
10 34 (5.99%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (4.93%) Azure Certification
12 25 (4.40%) GCIH
13 22 (3.87%) GCIA
14 20 (3.52%) AWS Certification
15 19 (3.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 16 (2.82%) CompTIA CySA+
17 14 (2.46%) CCSP
18 13 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
18 13 (2.29%) GCFA
19 12 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (28.35%) NIST
2 146 (25.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 85 (14.96%) GDPR
4 39 (6.87%) PCI DSS
5 31 (5.46%) HIPAA
6 28 (4.93%) NCSC
7 17 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (2.46%) NIST 800
9 10 (1.76%) GRC
9 10 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (1.23%) JSP 440
10 7 (1.23%) PSD2
10 7 (1.23%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.88%) SLA
12 4 (0.70%) QA
13 2 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.18%) Def Stans
14 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 98 (17.25%) Active Directory
2 36 (6.34%) Docker
3 12 (2.11%) Hyper-V
3 12 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.23%) Snort
4 7 (1.23%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.88%) Squid
7 4 (0.70%) Postfix
8 2 (0.35%) NFS
8 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.18%) GPFS
9 1 (0.18%) Lustre
9 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (10.04%) Terraform
2 49 (8.63%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.11%) QRadar
4 22 (3.87%) Ansible
5 18 (3.17%) Kibana
6 17 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.11%) SCCM
7 12 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.76%) Nessus
8 10 (1.76%) WSUS
9 9 (1.58%) CSIRT
9 9 (1.58%) logstash
10 8 (1.41%) Prometheus
11 6 (1.06%) Grafana
12 5 (0.88%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 4 (0.70%) Nexpose
13 4 (0.70%) Suricata
14 3 (0.53%) CASB
14 3 (0.53%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.53%) Icinga
Vendors
1 193 (33.98%) Microsoft
2 137 (24.12%) Splunk
3 60 (10.56%) CyberArk
4 52 (9.15%) BeyondTrust
5 47 (8.27%) CrowdStrike
6 33 (5.81%) Palo Alto
7 29 (5.11%) Qualys
8 28 (4.93%) Cisco
9 25 (4.40%) Google
10 23 (4.05%) Centrify
10 23 (4.05%) VMware
11 21 (3.70%) LogRhythm
11 21 (3.70%) Tenable
11 21 (3.70%) Zscaler
12 20 (3.52%) ArcSight
12 20 (3.52%) Fortinet
13 17 (2.99%) FireEye
14 16 (2.82%) Forcepoint
14 16 (2.82%) ServiceNow
15 12 (2.11%) Tanium