SIEM Contract Job Trends in Reading

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Berkshire > Reading

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 83 77
Rank change year-on-year +38 -6 +12
Contract jobs citing SIEM 25 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 3.83% 0.92% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 1.04% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 11
10th Percentile £375 £470 £475
25th Percentile £433 £519 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £615
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -10.57% +64.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £635 £641 £740
Berkshire median daily rate £496 £575 £620
% change year-on-year -13.74% -7.26% +25.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 588 959 964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.05% 88.55% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 529 633
10th Percentile £352 £350 £240
25th Percentile £450 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +1.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £501
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.34% +0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 14
10th Percentile £14.55 £14.50 £29.04
25th Percentile £14.75 £38.44 £59.32
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £63.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% -4.52% +15.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.74 £67.42
90th Percentile £74.40 £76.13 £75.18
Berkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £58.49 £61.79
% change year-on-year -52.98% -5.34% +23.58%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in Reading

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SIEM

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Reading over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in Reading

SIEM
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SIEM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SIEM

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) AWS
1 4 (16.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) GCP
3 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (4.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) Firewall
1 7 (28.00%) Network Security
2 3 (12.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) BGP
3 1 (4.00%) OSPF
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) GitLab
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.00%) MLflow
General
1 10 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Legal
3 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Analyst
2 11 (44.00%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Architect
3 5 (20.00%) Security Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Security Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Development Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Network Support
6 1 (4.00%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Security Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Security Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Cyber Threat
1 8 (32.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 7 (28.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (28.00%) Security Posture
3 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (8.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (4.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Linux
1 9 (36.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Incident Response
2 12 (48.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (48.00%) Security Operations
2 12 (48.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 11 (44.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 11 (44.00%) Forensic Analysis
4 9 (36.00%) Data Privacy
4 9 (36.00%) Malware Analysis
5 8 (32.00%) Behavioural Analysis
5 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (32.00%) Risk Management
6 6 (24.00%) Task Automation
7 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (20.00%) Security Architecture
7 5 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
8 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security
8 4 (16.00%) DevSecOps
8 4 (16.00%) Information Security
8 4 (16.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 4 (16.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Python
2 10 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) CISSP
2 12 (48.00%) GCFA
2 12 (48.00%) GCIA
2 12 (48.00%) GCIH
3 8 (32.00%) CFCE
4 6 (24.00%) GIAC
5 5 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (12.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
6 3 (12.00%) CCSP
6 3 (12.00%) CEH
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (8.00%) Degree
7 2 (8.00%) ECSA
8 1 (4.00%) CCSA
8 1 (4.00%) CCSE
8 1 (4.00%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (56.00%) NIST
2 13 (52.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (44.00%) GDPR
4 6 (24.00%) HIPAA
5 3 (12.00%) PCI DSS
5 3 (12.00%) PSD2
6 1 (4.00%) EU AI Act
6 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) CSIRT
3 1 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) Kubeflow
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) Splunk
2 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (36.00%) CrowdStrike
4 8 (32.00%) ArcSight
5 7 (28.00%) LogRhythm
6 2 (8.00%) Cisco
6 2 (8.00%) IBM
7 1 (4.00%) Carbon Black
7 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
7 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
7 1 (4.00%) FireEye
7 1 (4.00%) Intel
7 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.00%) Qualys
7 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
7 1 (4.00%) Tanium