SIEM Engineer Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

SIEM Engineer
Suffolk > Ipswich

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in Ipswich is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 2.44% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Ipswich

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Ipswich. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Ipswich with a recognized job title 40 48 97
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.56% 87.27% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 71
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -7.89% -17.39%
75th Percentile £550 £534 £675
90th Percentile - £549 £745
Suffolk median daily rate £400 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% -21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £15.84 - -
25th Percentile £16.36 £14.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.46 £14.60 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% +4.29% -
75th Percentile £18.32 £15.15 £14.50
90th Percentile £18.68 - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £21.34 £47.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year -55.08% +239.29% -25.45%

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich

For the 6 months to 14 November 2025, SIEM Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Ipswich region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GPG13
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GPG13
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow