SIEM Contracts in London

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring SIEM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SIEM over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 207 217
Rank change year-on-year +21 +10 +127
Contract jobs citing SIEM 170 192 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.40% 1.10% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.24% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 140 228
10th Percentile £419 £425 £475
25th Percentile £489 £513 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £745 £775 £775
90th Percentile £800 £825 £838
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 £68.75 £91.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 £72.50 £97.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.83% -25.64% -
75th Percentile £63.25 £76.25 £103.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.68 £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +101.69% -46.67% +13.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,217 15,465 23,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.25% 88.32% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,521 11,089 16,751
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £449 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 320 264
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.18 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -28.59% +10.45%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.35 £68.08 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.30 £37.50 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.55% +0.48% +49.28%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in London

SIEM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SIEM in London

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in London

SIEM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIEM in London.

Hourly rate trend for SIEM in London

SIEM
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +13 22 £575 +6.53% 31
West London +10 3 £525 - 56
South London +5 3 £688 - 5
East London +16 2 £540 -7.69% 7
North London - 2 £650 -
SIEM
England

SIEM
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.76%) Apache
2 1 (0.59%) Confluence
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (31.76%) Azure
2 42 (24.71%) AWS
3 18 (10.59%) Azure Sentinel
4 16 (9.41%) SaaS
5 15 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (8.82%) Amazon S3
6 14 (8.24%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (7.06%) GCP
8 7 (4.12%) GitHub
9 5 (2.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 5 (2.94%) AWS KMS
9 5 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.35%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.35%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.35%) Serverless
11 3 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.76%) Amazon Macie
12 2 (1.18%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 48 (28.24%) Firewall
2 25 (14.71%) Network Security
3 12 (7.06%) DNS
4 10 (5.88%) SMTP
4 10 (5.88%) TCP/IP
5 9 (5.29%) HTTP
6 6 (3.53%) VPN
7 5 (2.94%) SSL
8 3 (1.76%) DHCP
8 3 (1.76%) FTP
8 3 (1.76%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (1.76%) SNMP
8 3 (1.76%) SSH
8 3 (1.76%) Telnet
8 3 (1.76%) Wireshark
9 2 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.59%) VLAN
10 1 (0.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.94%) Big Data
2 4 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.94%) GitLab
1 5 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.76%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.76%) Git
2 3 (1.76%) SonarQube
2 3 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.18%) JIRA
4 1 (0.59%) CircleCI
General
1 43 (25.29%) Finance
2 29 (17.06%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.53%) Public Sector
4 21 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.24%) Banking
5 14 (8.24%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (5.88%) Legal
7 7 (4.12%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.53%) Marketing
9 5 (2.94%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.94%) Military
10 4 (2.35%) Electronics
10 4 (2.35%) Law
10 4 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.76%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.18%) French Language
12 2 (1.18%) Local Government
12 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (25.29%) Architect
2 38 (22.35%) Security Architect
3 32 (18.82%) Analyst
4 28 (16.47%) Security Engineer
5 21 (12.35%) Security Analyst
6 15 (8.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 14 (8.24%) Senior
7 14 (8.24%) SOC Analyst
8 11 (6.47%) Consultant
8 11 (6.47%) Security Manager
9 10 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
10 9 (5.29%) Lead
11 8 (4.71%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (4.71%) IT Architect
11 8 (4.71%) IT Security Architect
11 8 (4.71%) Splunk Engineer
12 6 (3.53%) Project Manager
12 6 (3.53%) Senior Architect
12 6 (3.53%) Senior Security Architect
13 5 (2.94%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.71%) .NET
2 4 (2.35%) HTML
2 4 (2.35%) XML
3 3 (1.76%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (1.76%) ASP.NET
3 3 (1.76%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (1.76%) CSS
3 3 (1.76%) JSON
3 3 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (1.76%) REST
4 2 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.18%) Kafka
4 2 (1.18%) Node.js
4 2 (1.18%) React
4 2 (1.18%) Web Services
5 1 (0.59%) LDAP
5 1 (0.59%) OAuth
5 1 (0.59%) OpenID
5 1 (0.59%) SOAP
5 1 (0.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.65%) Security Operations Centre
2 25 (14.71%) Security Posture
3 23 (13.53%) Onboarding
4 21 (12.35%) Cyber Threat
5 15 (8.82%) CSOC
5 15 (8.82%) Management Information System
6 7 (4.12%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.53%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (2.94%) PKI
9 4 (2.35%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.35%) Replication
9 4 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 3 (1.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.76%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.18%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.18%) CMDB
11 2 (1.18%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.47%) Windows
2 20 (11.76%) Linux
3 13 (7.65%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.76%) CentOS
4 3 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.59%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.59%) Unix
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (45.29%) Cybersecurity
2 68 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 63 (37.06%) Incident Response
4 58 (34.12%) SOAR
5 44 (25.88%) Vulnerability Management
6 35 (20.59%) Threat Detection
7 30 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (15.88%) Security Architecture
9 26 (15.29%) Cloud Security
10 25 (14.71%) DevOps
11 23 (13.53%) Data Loss Prevention
11 23 (13.53%) Use Case
12 21 (12.35%) Information Security
12 21 (12.35%) Threat Intelligence
12 21 (12.35%) Threat Modelling
13 20 (11.76%) Agile
13 20 (11.76%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 20 (11.76%) Security Monitoring
14 16 (9.41%) Penetration Testing
15 15 (8.82%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.00%) Python
2 31 (18.24%) PowerShell
3 15 (8.82%) Bash
4 8 (4.71%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (3.53%) C#
6 5 (2.94%) Java
7 4 (2.35%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.35%) SQL
8 2 (1.18%) PHP
8 2 (1.18%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.59%) Bicep
9 1 (0.59%) C
Qualifications
1 49 (28.82%) Security Cleared
2 40 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 28 (16.47%) CISSP
4 14 (8.24%) CompTIA Security+
5 13 (7.65%) GCIH
6 12 (7.06%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (7.06%) CISM
7 11 (6.47%) CEH
7 11 (6.47%) Degree
7 11 (6.47%) GIAC
8 10 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (5.29%) CCSP
10 8 (4.71%) DV Cleared
11 6 (3.53%) AWS Certification
12 5 (2.94%) GCIA
13 3 (1.76%) CCNA
13 3 (1.76%) CRISC
13 3 (1.76%) GCFA
13 3 (1.76%) PMP
13 3 (1.76%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (22.35%) NIST
2 33 (19.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (14.12%) GDPR
4 16 (9.41%) HIPAA
5 14 (8.24%) PCI DSS
6 9 (5.29%) SLA
7 4 (2.35%) QA
8 3 (1.76%) NCSC
8 3 (1.76%) NIST 800
9 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.59%) FedRAMP
10 1 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.59%) GRC
10 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (7.06%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.35%) Docker
3 4 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.35%) vSphere
4 3 (1.76%) FreeRADIUS
4 3 (1.76%) iptables
4 3 (1.76%) vCloud
4 3 (1.76%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (1.18%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (4.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.12%) Terraform
3 6 (3.53%) Ansible
4 5 (2.94%) Grafana
4 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.94%) QRadar
5 3 (1.76%) Cacti
5 3 (1.76%) Kibana
5 3 (1.76%) Nagios
5 3 (1.76%) Netcool
5 3 (1.76%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.76%) Proxmox
5 3 (1.76%) Puppet
5 3 (1.76%) SCCM
5 3 (1.76%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.18%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.18%) logstash
7 1 (0.59%) CASB
7 1 (0.59%) Graylog
7 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (32.94%) Microsoft
2 54 (31.76%) Splunk
3 15 (8.82%) Google
4 13 (7.65%) Palo Alto
4 13 (7.65%) VMware
5 8 (4.71%) CrowdStrike
5 8 (4.71%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.53%) SAP
7 4 (2.35%) LogRhythm
8 3 (1.76%) Cisco
8 3 (1.76%) Nokia
8 3 (1.76%) Oracle
8 3 (1.76%) Qualys
8 3 (1.76%) Rapid7
8 3 (1.76%) Tenable
9 2 (1.18%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.18%) McAfee
9 2 (1.18%) Planview
9 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.59%) Sophos