SIEM Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring SIEM skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 44 17
Rank change year-on-year +13 -27 +64
Contract jobs citing SIEM 8 1 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 3.35% 0.34% 8.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 0.39% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 53
10th Percentile £500 - £470
25th Percentile £506 - £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £563
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -14.67% -15.09%
75th Percentile £555 - £630
90th Percentile £568 - £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £480 £563
% change year-on-year +9.38% -14.67% -13.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 254 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 91.63% 86.69% 93.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 186 483
10th Percentile £216 £234 £320
25th Percentile £350 £383 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -7.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £600
90th Percentile £632 £626 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £435 £450 £514
% change year-on-year -3.33% -12.41% +0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £13.92 £17.31 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.83 £19.98 £13.17
Median hourly rate £15.12 £30.00 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -49.60% +121.08% +10.24%
75th Percentile £17.94 £36.37 £20.25
90th Percentile £18.00 £37.25 £21.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.91 £30.00 £16.40
% change year-on-year -46.97% +82.93% +21.48%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in Milton Keynes

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SIEM

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (25.00%) CSOC
2 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) Protective Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (12.50%) Ethical Hacking
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Detection
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
1 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) CEH
4 3 (37.50%) CISSP
5 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (12.50%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) QRadar
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) LogRhythm
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk