SIEM Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 36 62
Rank change year-on-year -16 +26 +7
Contract jobs citing SIEM 11 10 4
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.73% 2.67% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 3.06% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 4
10th Percentile £656 - £591
25th Percentile £665 £525 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +18.26% -8.00% -
75th Percentile - £625 £713
90th Percentile - - £825
East of England median daily rate £613 £563 £625
% change year-on-year +8.89% -10.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £45.00 - -
25th Percentile £48.94 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.19 - -
90th Percentile £84.13 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 554 327 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 86.97% 87.20% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 136 309
10th Percentile £193 £265 £285
25th Percentile £409 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £650
90th Percentile £713 £681 £753
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 77 155
10th Percentile £16.48 £17.81 £37.91
25th Percentile £18.50 £47.50 £49.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £66.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.61% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £67.50 £75.25 £71.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.30 £35.00 £21.73
% change year-on-year -42.00% +61.07% -1.23%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SIEM

SIEM
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SIEM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SIEM

SIEM
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SIEM in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SIEM in Hertfordshire

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Stevenage -5 10 £680 +13.33% 5
Hatfield - 1 £650 -
SIEM
East of England

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) DNS
1 10 (90.91%) FTP
1 10 (90.91%) HTTP
1 10 (90.91%) Network Security
1 10 (90.91%) SMTP
1 10 (90.91%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
General
1 10 (90.91%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Analyst
1 10 (90.91%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Analytical Mindset
1 10 (90.91%) CSOC
1 10 (90.91%) Cyber Threat
1 10 (90.91%) Cyberattack
1 10 (90.91%) Management Information System
1 10 (90.91%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Analytics
1 11 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 11 (100.00%) SOAR
1 11 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 10 (90.91%) AI
2 10 (90.91%) Behavioural Analytics
2 10 (90.91%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (90.91%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (90.91%) Incident Response
2 10 (90.91%) Information Management
2 10 (90.91%) Information Security
2 10 (90.91%) Machine Learning
2 10 (90.91%) Network Packet Capture
2 10 (90.91%) Root Cause Analysis
2 10 (90.91%) Runbook
2 10 (90.91%) Threat Detection
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
3 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) DV Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Cribl.io
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft