SIEM Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 141 140
Rank change year-on-year -23 -1 +40
Contract jobs citing SIEM 42 19 45
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.88% 0.54% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.62% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 13 31
10th Percentile £393 £420 -
25th Percentile £425 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.74%
75th Percentile £556 £650 £663
90th Percentile £604 £670 £775
England median daily rate £550 £576 £625
% change year-on-year -4.56% -7.80% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Median hourly rate £41.94 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £68.75
% change year-on-year +13.04% -16.36% +4.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,206 3,050 4,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.34% 86.89% 88.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,788 1,738 2,713
10th Percentile £220 £263 £300
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £647 £669 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 145 201
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.09 £15.32
25th Percentile £19.75 £17.08 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £27.39 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.09% -8.72% +36.36%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £67.91 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in the North of England

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SIEM

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the North of England

SIEM
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SIEM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SIEM

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the North of England region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
North West -9 22 £458 -12.86% 77
Yorkshire -34 17 £529 -18.65% 62
North East -4 3 £400 +14.29% 17
SIEM
England

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 19 (45.24%) AWS
2 17 (40.48%) Azure
3 12 (28.57%) GCP
4 7 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
6 4 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (7.14%) OCI
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (2.38%) Akamai
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (50.00%) Firewall
2 12 (28.57%) Network Security
3 4 (9.52%) TCP/IP
4 3 (7.14%) DNS
4 3 (7.14%) Internet
4 3 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (4.76%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (4.76%) VPN
5 2 (4.76%) Wireshark
6 1 (2.38%) BGP
6 1 (2.38%) IPsec
6 1 (2.38%) Kerberos
6 1 (2.38%) SCCP
6 1 (2.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Fiddler
2 1 (2.38%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.19%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (26.19%) Finance
3 7 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.76%) Legal
5 2 (4.76%) Military
5 2 (4.76%) Retail
6 1 (2.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Analyst
1 11 (26.19%) Security Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Architect
3 7 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 6 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
4 6 (14.29%) Security Analyst
4 6 (14.29%) Senior
5 4 (9.52%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 3 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Security Operations Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Operations Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Technical Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Technical Operations Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) JSON
2 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.76%) HTML
3 1 (2.38%) Node.js
3 1 (2.38%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Security Posture
3 3 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) PKI
4 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.38%) CMDB
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Linux
1 8 (19.05%) Windows
2 3 (7.14%) Unix
2 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (52.38%) Incident Response
3 15 (35.71%) Vulnerability Management
4 13 (30.95%) Cloud Security
5 12 (28.57%) SOAR
6 10 (23.81%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 10 (23.81%) Security Operations
6 10 (23.81%) Zero Trust
7 9 (21.43%) Data Loss Prevention
7 9 (21.43%) Use Case
8 8 (19.05%) CI/CD
8 8 (19.05%) Information Security
8 8 (19.05%) Threat Detection
9 7 (16.67%) DevOps
9 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 6 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 6 (14.29%) Security Architecture
10 6 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
10 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.81%) PowerShell
1 10 (23.81%) Python
2 5 (11.90%) Bash
3 4 (9.52%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.14%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (2.38%) C
5 1 (2.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) CISSP
2 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
3 9 (21.43%) CISM
3 9 (21.43%) Degree
3 9 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 7 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (11.90%) Azure Certification
7 4 (9.52%) CISA
8 3 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (7.14%) AWS Certification
8 3 (7.14%) CCSP
8 3 (7.14%) GCIA
8 3 (7.14%) GCIH
8 3 (7.14%) GIAC
8 3 (7.14%) GSEC
8 3 (7.14%) SSCP
9 2 (4.76%) CCNP
10 1 (2.38%) CCSE
10 1 (2.38%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (40.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 17 (40.48%) NIST
2 11 (26.19%) PCI DSS
3 8 (19.05%) GDPR
4 6 (14.29%) HIPAA
5 3 (7.14%) NIST 800
5 3 (7.14%) PSD2
5 3 (7.14%) SOC 2
6 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (2.38%) SOC 1
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.38%) Snort
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Terraform
2 4 (9.52%) QRadar
3 3 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (7.14%) Ansible
3 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.38%) Icinga
4 1 (2.38%) Kibana
4 1 (2.38%) logstash
4 1 (2.38%) SCCM
4 1 (2.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 10 (23.81%) Splunk
3 6 (14.29%) Cisco
3 6 (14.29%) Rapid7
4 5 (11.90%) ArcSight
5 3 (7.14%) LogRhythm
5 3 (7.14%) Palo Alto
5 3 (7.14%) Zscaler
6 2 (4.76%) Citrix
6 2 (4.76%) Google
6 2 (4.76%) McAfee
7 1 (2.38%) AlienVault
7 1 (2.38%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.38%) F5
7 1 (2.38%) Imperva
7 1 (2.38%) Qualys
7 1 (2.38%) VMware