SIEM Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 47 59
Rank change year-on-year -52 +12 -32
Contract jobs citing SIEM 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.37% 1.36% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.44% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £531 £500 -
25th Percentile £559 £575 £950
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £1,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -40.00% +75.82%
75th Percentile £659 £638 £1,050
90th Percentile £684 £675 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £613 £600 £1,000
% change year-on-year +2.08% -40.00% +75.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 963 347 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 89.25% 94.29% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 225 209
10th Percentile £366 £268 £377
25th Percentile £425 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £558 £563 £588
90th Percentile £675 £647 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile £14.02 £18.10 -
25th Percentile £14.51 £18.20 £10.90
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.69 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +7.57% -15.24%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.87 £22.44
90th Percentile £19.07 - £23.75
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.50 £18.69 £12.83
% change year-on-year -11.72% +45.67% +20.70%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in Sheffield

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SIEM

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Sheffield over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in Sheffield

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Compliance Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Engagement Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Governance Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) SOC Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (50.00%) SCADA
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Inventory Management
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Major Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISA99
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) GRC
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow