SIEM Engineer Contracts in London

SIEM Engineer
England > London

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in London is £660, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 365 467
Rank change year-on-year +10 +102 +133
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 12 21 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.088% 0.13% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.14% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 6
10th Percentile £570 £528 £638
25th Percentile £625 £550 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £750 £663
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.21% -1.85%
75th Percentile £750 £825 £772
90th Percentile £800 - £800
England median daily rate £613 £635 £545
% change year-on-year -3.54% +16.51% +74.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,673 15,397 22,936
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 94.23% 94.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,588 10,951 16,816
10th Percentile £326 £340 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 213 244
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.00 £23.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -14.48% +14.09%
75th Percentile £50.50 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.75 £80.00
England median hourly rate £26.28 £43.90 £43.00
% change year-on-year -40.14% +2.09% +68.63%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured SIEM Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in London

SIEM Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM Engineer in London

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM Engineer in London

SIEM Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -1 1 £660 +20.00% 2
SIEM Engineer
England

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 August 2025, SIEM Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) SIEM
2 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (58.33%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (58.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (50.00%) Incident Response
5 5 (41.67%) Azure
5 5 (41.67%) Windows
6 4 (33.33%) Data Analysis
6 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
6 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 4 (33.33%) Security Architecture
6 4 (33.33%) SOAR
7 3 (25.00%) Threat Detection
7 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (25.00%) Linux
7 3 (25.00%) Python
7 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
7 3 (25.00%) Finance
8 2 (16.67%) Migration
8 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
8 2 (16.67%) Firewall
8 2 (16.67%) Banking
8 2 (16.67%) Social Media
8 2 (16.67%) Splunk
8 2 (16.67%) Kafka
8 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
8 2 (16.67%) Data Transformation
8 2 (16.67%) Use Case

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Social Media
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (8.33%) STIX
3 1 (8.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) SIEM
2 7 (58.33%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 4 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 4 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 4 (33.33%) SOAR
5 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (25.00%) Threat Detection
6 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (16.67%) Data Transformation
6 2 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Use Case
7 1 (8.33%) Analytics
7 1 (8.33%) Fintech
7 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
7 1 (8.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 1 (8.33%) Red Team
7 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (8.33%) GCFA
2 1 (8.33%) GCIA
2 1 (8.33%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk