SIEM Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
North West > Lancashire

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing SIEM 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.94% 1.06% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
North West median daily rate £558 £611 £550
% change year-on-year -8.79% +11.14% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 165 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 80.19% 87.30% 73.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 87 66
10th Percentile £225 £350 £203
25th Percentile £350 £425 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £675 £594 £631
90th Percentile £800 £647 £677
North West median daily rate £478 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +6.17% -8.72% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 23 62
10th Percentile £21.14 £15.69 -
25th Percentile £37.25 £22.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £64.09 £28.75 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +122.92% -18.69% -14.53%
75th Percentile £71.91 £63.20 £45.66
90th Percentile £73.79 £68.81 £47.82
North West median hourly rate £50.50 £29.90 £27.50
% change year-on-year +68.90% +8.73% -6.14%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in Lancashire

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing SIEM

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Preston - 2 - - 2
SIEM
North West

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Key Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Server Migrations
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) CASB
1 2 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Zscaler