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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 172 170
Rank change year-on-year -19 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing SIEM 667 451 485
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.63% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.80% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 289 336
10th Percentile £413 £419 £444
25th Percentile £464 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £631 £675 £713
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £558 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +1.36% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 12 8
10th Percentile £44.79 £45.08 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.69 £72.84 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.81% +26.67% -25.81%
75th Percentile £83.75 £85.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £98.82 £98.50 £76.78
UK median hourly rate £65.69 £72.84 £57.50
% change year-on-year -9.81% +26.67% -25.81%

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 38,792 25,089 28,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,117 16,022 18,624
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,415 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -42 237 £563 -6.25% 196
South East -3 173 £525 +1.45% 126
North of England +4 124 £563 +7.14% 81
North West +21 95 £563 +18.42% 48
South West +6 59 £640 -9.38% 67
Midlands -66 30 £600 +24.35% 31
Yorkshire -25 29 £563 +5.88% 22
West Midlands -67 28 £600 +24.35% 25
East of England -39 27 £550 - 28
East Midlands -10 2 £550 - 6
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 17 (2.55%) Confluence
2 1 (0.15%) Apache
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
2 1 (0.15%) nginx
2 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
2 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 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 251 (37.63%) Azure
2 193 (28.94%) AWS
3 98 (14.69%) Entra ID
4 94 (14.09%) GCP
5 63 (9.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 52 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (5.40%) Microsoft Purview
8 33 (4.95%) SaaS
9 24 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 19 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 16 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (2.40%) Datadog
12 16 (2.40%) GitHub
13 14 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (1.95%) Serverless
15 12 (1.80%) AWS CloudTrail
16 11 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 128 (19.19%) Firewall
2 106 (15.89%) Network Security
3 50 (7.50%) DNS
4 44 (6.60%) TCP/IP
5 26 (3.90%) VPN
5 26 (3.90%) WAN
6 25 (3.75%) SSL
7 23 (3.45%) DHCP
7 23 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
8 20 (3.00%) VSAN
9 19 (2.85%) HTTP
10 15 (2.25%) BGP
11 14 (2.10%) Internet
11 14 (2.10%) SD-WAN
12 13 (1.95%) VLAN
13 10 (1.50%) IPsec
13 10 (1.50%) OSPF
14 7 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
14 7 (1.05%) NGFW
14 7 (1.05%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.30%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
2 7 (1.05%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.75%) Hazelcast
4 4 (0.60%) Power BI
5 3 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.30%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.30%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.15%) Metadata
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (3.90%) JIRA
2 13 (1.95%) Git
3 12 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.35%) GitLab
5 5 (0.75%) Selenium
5 5 (0.75%) Snyk
6 3 (0.45%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.30%) MSI
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.15%) TruffleHog
General
1 191 (28.64%) Social Skills
2 94 (14.09%) Finance
3 92 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (11.69%) Public Sector
5 56 (8.40%) Documentation Skills
6 34 (5.10%) Banking
7 20 (3.00%) Military
8 11 (1.65%) Retail
9 10 (1.50%) Local Government
9 10 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.20%) Law
10 8 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.05%) Legal
12 6 (0.90%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.30%) Digital Health
15 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 127 (19.04%) Analyst
2 116 (17.39%) Security Engineer
3 65 (9.75%) Architect
4 64 (9.60%) Senior
5 59 (8.85%) SOC Analyst
6 58 (8.70%) Security Analyst
7 46 (6.90%) Consultant
8 45 (6.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 39 (5.85%) Lead
9 39 (5.85%) Security Architect
10 32 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 27 (4.05%) SOC Engineer
12 26 (3.90%) Network Engineer
12 26 (3.90%) Security Manager
13 23 (3.45%) Operations Analyst
14 20 (3.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 20 (3.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 20 (3.00%) SIEM Engineer
15 19 (2.85%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 19 (2.85%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.45%) LDAP
2 19 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (2.40%) SailPoint
4 13 (1.95%) REST
5 12 (1.80%) Kafka
6 9 (1.35%) LangChain
6 9 (1.35%) PyTorch
6 9 (1.35%) scikit-learn
7 8 (1.20%) 802.1X
8 7 (1.05%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.90%) Azure Blueprints
10 5 (0.75%) eBPF
10 5 (0.75%) JSON
10 5 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.60%) CSS
11 4 (0.60%) Middleware
12 3 (0.45%) FIDO
12 3 (0.45%) OAuth
12 3 (0.45%) WebAuthn
12 3 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (15.29%) Security Posture
2 91 (13.64%) Onboarding
3 74 (11.09%) Cloud Native
4 69 (10.34%) Security Operations Centre
5 57 (8.55%) Cyber Threat
6 50 (7.50%) Operational Technology
7 42 (6.30%) Management Information System
8 36 (5.40%) Cyber Defence
9 31 (4.65%) Cloud Security Posture
10 28 (4.20%) Data Centre
11 25 (3.75%) PKI
12 19 (2.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 16 (2.40%) CSOC
14 14 (2.10%) SCADA
15 13 (1.95%) CMDB
16 12 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
17 11 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
18 10 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
19 8 (1.20%) Public Cloud
20 7 (1.05%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 149 (22.34%) Linux
2 147 (22.04%) Windows
3 40 (6.00%) Unix
4 31 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (3.75%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.05%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (53.37%) Cybersecurity
2 222 (33.28%) Incident Response
3 207 (31.03%) Security Operations
4 156 (23.39%) Cloud Security
5 130 (19.49%) CI/CD
6 121 (18.14%) Vulnerability Management
7 118 (17.69%) Security Monitoring
8 117 (17.54%) Threat Detection
9 106 (15.89%) SOAR
10 96 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (14.24%) DevOps
12 94 (14.09%) Security Architecture
12 94 (14.09%) Threat Intelligence
13 90 (13.49%) Zero Trust
14 84 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
15 81 (12.14%) Infrastructure as Code
15 81 (12.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 80 (11.99%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
17 79 (11.84%) DevSecOps
18 73 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 161 (24.14%) Python
2 137 (20.54%) PowerShell
3 85 (12.74%) Bash
4 46 (6.90%) Kusto Query Language
5 26 (3.90%) SQL
6 21 (3.15%) Java
7 18 (2.70%) Bicep
7 18 (2.70%) Search Processing Language
8 7 (1.05%) Perl
9 3 (0.45%) Groovy
9 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.30%) C
10 2 (0.30%) Go
10 2 (0.30%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 270 (40.48%) Security Cleared
2 166 (24.89%) SC Cleared
3 141 (21.14%) CISSP
4 97 (14.54%) DV Cleared
5 77 (11.54%) CISM
6 69 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
7 62 (9.30%) Degree
8 47 (7.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 37 (5.55%) AWS Certification
10 28 (4.20%) CompTIA Security+
10 28 (4.20%) GIAC
11 27 (4.05%) Azure Certification
12 23 (3.45%) CCSP
12 23 (3.45%) GCIH
13 21 (3.15%) CCNP
13 21 (3.15%) CEH
14 18 (2.70%) CompTIA CySA+
15 16 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (2.40%) SANS
16 15 (2.25%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (23.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 150 (22.49%) NIST
3 73 (10.94%) GDPR
4 45 (6.75%) NCSC
5 31 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 31 (4.65%) PCI DSS
6 15 (2.25%) GRC
6 15 (2.25%) HIPAA
6 15 (2.25%) PMO
6 15 (2.25%) SLA
7 14 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.80%) NIST 800
9 11 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (1.50%) SOC 2
11 9 (1.35%) ISO 31000
12 8 (1.20%) QA
13 7 (1.05%) COBIT
14 5 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.75%) Data Quality
15 3 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 118 (17.69%) Active Directory
2 40 (6.00%) Docker
3 30 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.70%) VMware NSX
5 17 (2.55%) vSphere
6 13 (1.95%) Hyper-V
7 12 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.75%) Snort
10 4 (0.60%) Squid
11 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.15%) NFS
12 1 (0.15%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.15%) Samba
12 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 93 (13.94%) Terraform
2 69 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 56 (8.40%) Ansible
4 30 (4.50%) QRadar
5 23 (3.45%) CASB
6 19 (2.85%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.95%) Grafana
7 13 (1.95%) VxRail
8 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.20%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.90%) Check_MK
11 6 (0.90%) CSIRT
11 6 (0.90%) Puppet
12 5 (0.75%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.60%) Nessus
13 4 (0.60%) Packer
13 4 (0.60%) Podman
14 3 (0.45%) Suricata
Vendors
1 182 (27.29%) Microsoft
2 108 (16.19%) Splunk
3 67 (10.04%) CyberArk
4 49 (7.35%) ServiceNow
5 41 (6.15%) CrowdStrike
6 37 (5.55%) Google
7 35 (5.25%) VMware
8 33 (4.95%) BeyondTrust
9 32 (4.80%) Zscaler
10 29 (4.35%) Cisco
11 25 (3.75%) Qualys
12 22 (3.30%) Red Hat
13 21 (3.15%) Fortinet
13 21 (3.15%) Oracle
14 20 (3.00%) Palo Alto
14 20 (3.00%) Tanium
15 19 (2.85%) Tenable
16 15 (2.25%) Okta
17 13 (1.95%) Cribl.io
18 11 (1.65%) Trend Micro