SIEM Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

SIEM Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - 146
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.063% - 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% - 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 £635 £548
% change year-on-year -5.51% +15.98% -15.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,443 1,763 2,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 93.68% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 1,059 1,499
10th Percentile £220 £200 £250
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% +0.24%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £611 £664 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 75 62
10th Percentile £16.18 £12.33 £12.14
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.27 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% +3.10% -5.87%
75th Percentile £26.66 £24.18 £58.75
90th Percentile £61.63 £50.70 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in Scotland

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SIEM Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SIEM Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

SIEM Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Glasgow - 1 £550 -
SIEM Engineer
UK

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 Scotland region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk