SIEM Contracts in England

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SIEM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SIEM over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 177 158
Rank change year-on-year +5 -19 +163
Contract jobs citing SIEM 461 472 717
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.66% 1.42% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.66% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 334 538
10th Percentile £417 £450 £438
25th Percentile £471 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £666 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 2
10th Percentile £45.08 - £73.25
25th Percentile £51.00 £56.25 £74.38
Median hourly rate £72.84 £67.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% -12.90% +17.78%
75th Percentile £85.00 £76.25 £79.38
90th Percentile £98.50 £77.30 £79.75
UK median hourly rate £72.84 £67.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +7.91% -12.90% +17.78%

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 25,246 28,459 39,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.80% 85.86% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,075 18,539 27,553
10th Percentile £300 £313 £320
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £759
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 1,610 1,372
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.25 £18.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.85
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +5.28% +54.13%
75th Percentile £50.69 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.27
% change year-on-year -38.57% -0.80% +55.74%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIEM in England.

Daily rate trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in England over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in England

SIEM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIEM in England.

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in England

SIEM
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SIEM in England over the 6 months to 17 August 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 17 August 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 +28 192 £600 +4.35% 148
South East +41 85 £513 -14.58% 64
Midlands -30 51 £515 -14.17% 34
West Midlands -29 49 £515 -14.17% 19
East of England +50 47 £550 -26.67% 18
North of England -11 42 £525 -11.91% 33
North West +6 32 £466 -15.23% 19
South West -45 16 £706 +4.63% 35
Yorkshire -25 10 £538 -23.21% 11
East Midlands +1 2 - - 15
SIEM
UK

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (0.87%) Confluence
2 3 (0.65%) Apache
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.22%) 1Password
2 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Oracle CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 138 (29.93%) Azure
2 104 (22.56%) AWS
3 64 (13.88%) Azure Sentinel
4 38 (8.24%) SaaS
5 36 (7.81%) GCP
6 32 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (4.77%) Amazon EC2
7 22 (4.77%) Amazon S3
8 21 (4.56%) Amazon SQS
9 20 (4.34%) Cohesity
10 15 (3.25%) GitHub
11 13 (2.82%) Entra ID
12 10 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.30%) AWS KMS
16 5 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
16 5 (1.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 131 (28.42%) Firewall
2 99 (21.48%) Network Security
3 50 (10.85%) DNS
4 28 (6.07%) VPN
5 27 (5.86%) SSL
6 26 (5.64%) TCP/IP
7 22 (4.77%) HTTP
7 22 (4.77%) SAN
8 18 (3.90%) Intrusion Detection
8 18 (3.90%) SMTP
9 15 (3.25%) FTP
10 14 (3.04%) BGP
11 13 (2.82%) VLAN
12 12 (2.60%) OSPF
13 7 (1.52%) Internet
13 7 (1.52%) IPsec
14 5 (1.08%) WAN
15 4 (0.87%) DHCP
15 4 (0.87%) NGFW
15 4 (0.87%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (1.08%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.65%) Big Data
3 3 (0.65%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.43%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (2.60%) Jenkins
2 11 (2.39%) GitLab
3 9 (1.95%) Git
4 7 (1.52%) CircleCI
4 7 (1.52%) JIRA
5 6 (1.30%) Snyk
6 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.43%) JMeter
7 2 (0.43%) Postman
7 2 (0.43%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.43%) Selenium
7 2 (0.43%) TestNG
7 2 (0.43%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.22%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.22%) MLflow
General
1 118 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 103 (22.34%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (15.18%) Finance
4 39 (8.46%) Public Sector
5 29 (6.29%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (4.56%) Banking
7 19 (4.12%) Telecoms
8 18 (3.90%) Legal
9 10 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.17%) Military
10 8 (1.74%) Law
11 6 (1.30%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.30%) Local Government
12 5 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.87%) Back Office
14 3 (0.65%) Fire and Rescue
14 3 (0.65%) Police
14 3 (0.65%) Retail
15 2 (0.43%) Aviation
15 2 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (20.61%) Security Engineer
2 91 (19.74%) Architect
3 83 (18.00%) Analyst
4 72 (15.62%) Security Architect
5 51 (11.06%) SOC Analyst
6 35 (7.59%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 34 (7.38%) Security Analyst
8 32 (6.94%) Lead
9 31 (6.72%) Senior
10 28 (6.07%) SIEM Engineer
11 21 (4.56%) Consultant
12 18 (3.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 18 (3.90%) SOC Engineer
13 15 (3.25%) Network Engineer
13 15 (3.25%) Security Manager
14 12 (2.60%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 12 (2.60%) Network Security Engineer
15 11 (2.39%) Security Consultant
16 10 (2.17%) Senior Architect
17 9 (1.95%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.25%) LDAP
2 10 (2.17%) .NET
3 9 (1.95%) JSON
4 8 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (1.30%) Loki
5 6 (1.30%) REST
6 4 (0.87%) React
7 3 (0.65%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (0.65%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.65%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (0.65%) CSS
7 3 (0.65%) HTML
7 3 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.65%) XML
7 3 (0.65%) YAML
8 2 (0.43%) OAuth
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.43%) SAML
8 2 (0.43%) Streamlit
8 2 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 79 (17.14%) Security Operations Centre
2 74 (16.05%) Cyber Threat
3 69 (14.97%) Security Posture
4 54 (11.71%) CSOC
5 44 (9.54%) Management Information System
6 42 (9.11%) Onboarding
7 19 (4.12%) Cloud Native
8 18 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (3.47%) Cyber Defence
10 15 (3.25%) Cyberattack
11 13 (2.82%) Data Centre
12 12 (2.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 12 (2.60%) PKI
13 8 (1.74%) Cyber Security Posture
13 8 (1.74%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (1.52%) Operational Technology
15 5 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
15 5 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 96 (20.82%) Windows
2 66 (14.32%) Linux
3 37 (8.03%) Windows Server
4 22 (4.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (4.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (2.17%) Unix
7 8 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.30%) Check Point GAiA
9 4 (0.87%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.65%) CentOS
10 3 (0.65%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.65%) VMS
11 1 (0.22%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (52.71%) Cybersecurity
2 189 (41.00%) Incident Response
3 183 (39.70%) Security Operations
4 109 (23.64%) SOAR
5 101 (21.91%) Threat Detection
6 100 (21.69%) Vulnerability Management
7 90 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (17.14%) Threat Intelligence
9 77 (16.70%) Cloud Security
10 73 (15.84%) Security Monitoring
11 65 (14.10%) Information Security
12 60 (13.02%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 58 (12.58%) Use Case
14 56 (12.15%) Threat Modelling
15 52 (11.28%) DevOps
16 49 (10.63%) Security Architecture
17 44 (9.54%) Analytics
17 44 (9.54%) Data Loss Prevention
18 43 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
19 41 (8.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 120 (26.03%) PowerShell
2 118 (25.60%) Python
3 46 (9.98%) Kusto Query Language
4 29 (6.29%) Bash
5 9 (1.95%) Java
6 7 (1.52%) C#
7 6 (1.30%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.87%) PHP
8 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.87%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (0.65%) SQL
10 2 (0.43%) Bicep
10 2 (0.43%) C
10 2 (0.43%) Perl
10 2 (0.43%) VBScript
11 1 (0.22%) C++
11 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 151 (32.75%) Security Cleared
2 112 (24.30%) SC Cleared
3 98 (21.26%) CISSP
4 46 (9.98%) Degree
5 44 (9.54%) DV Cleared
6 40 (8.68%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (7.59%) CEH
8 34 (7.38%) CISM
9 30 (6.51%) GIAC
10 29 (6.29%) GCIH
11 28 (6.07%) CompTIA Security+
12 20 (4.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 20 (4.34%) GCIA
13 16 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
14 14 (3.04%) CCSP
15 13 (2.82%) CCNP
15 13 (2.82%) CCSE
15 13 (2.82%) CISA
15 13 (2.82%) GCFA
16 12 (2.60%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (21.26%) NIST
2 93 (20.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (11.28%) GDPR
4 28 (6.07%) PCI DSS
5 23 (4.99%) HIPAA
6 17 (3.69%) SLA
7 13 (2.82%) NCSC
8 11 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (1.52%) QA
10 6 (1.30%) SOC 2
11 5 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (1.08%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.87%) PSD2
13 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.43%) GRC
14 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.43%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.22%) GAMP
System Software
1 52 (11.28%) Active Directory
2 25 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (5.21%) Docker
4 20 (4.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 20 (4.34%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.87%) Snort
6 3 (0.65%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.65%) iptables
6 3 (0.65%) vCloud
6 3 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (0.65%) vSphere
7 2 (0.43%) Squid
7 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.43%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (8.46%) Ansible
2 33 (7.16%) QRadar
3 27 (5.86%) Kubernetes
4 26 (5.64%) SCCM
5 23 (4.99%) WSUS
6 22 (4.77%) Terraform
7 11 (2.39%) FortiGate
8 10 (2.17%) Prometheus
9 9 (1.95%) Nessus
10 8 (1.74%) CSIRT
10 8 (1.74%) Grafana
10 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.30%) CASB
11 6 (1.30%) Kibana
12 5 (1.08%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 5 (1.08%) Puppet
13 3 (0.65%) Cacti
13 3 (0.65%) logstash
13 3 (0.65%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.65%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 172 (37.31%) Microsoft
2 153 (33.19%) Splunk
3 40 (8.68%) Palo Alto
4 38 (8.24%) CrowdStrike
5 36 (7.81%) VMware
6 35 (7.59%) Cisco
7 22 (4.77%) Fortinet
8 21 (4.56%) ArcSight
8 21 (4.56%) NetApp
9 18 (3.90%) Google
10 17 (3.69%) Qualys
11 16 (3.47%) CheckPoint
12 15 (3.25%) ServiceNow
13 14 (3.04%) Forcepoint
13 14 (3.04%) Zscaler
14 13 (2.82%) CyberArk
15 10 (2.17%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (1.95%) LogRhythm
17 8 (1.74%) Citrix
17 8 (1.74%) Oracle