SIEM Contract Job Trends in Essex

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SIEM 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.54% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +2.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 284 101 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 76.34% 87.07% 77.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 41 47
10th Percentile £310 £153 £178
25th Percentile £353 £230 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £318
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +41.51% -36.40%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £450
90th Percentile £613 £613 £553
East of England median daily rate £500 £501 £450
% change year-on-year -0.10% +11.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 29 14
10th Percentile £14.03 £13.25 £17.19
25th Percentile £16.12 - £23.44
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.87 £29.17
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% -35.31% -47.44%
75th Percentile £30.35 £39.50 £76.44
90th Percentile £71.80 £75.00 £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £21.28 £29.17
% change year-on-year +123.21% -27.05% +47.25%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SIEM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

SIEM job vacancy trend in Essex

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing SIEM

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Essex region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Harlow - 2 £425 - 2
SIEM
East of England

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (100.00%) Insider Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft