SIEM Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing SIEM 9 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 3.40% - 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% - 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £537 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -10.50% +5.26% +3.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 183 120 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 69.06% 86.96% 81.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 77 100
10th Percentile £220 £215 £156
25th Percentile £263 £363 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £476
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +4.99% -13.41%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £588
90th Percentile £600 £719 £625
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 1 32
10th Percentile £39.12 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £12.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £13.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +342.31% -67.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £13.50 £48.50
90th Percentile - - £59.31
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in Somerset

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing SIEM

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Somerset over the 6 months to 24 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in Somerset

SIEM
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing SIEM

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 24 February 2026. 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
Taunton - 3 £550 -
SIEM
South West

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (55.56%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
4 3 (33.33%) IaaS
4 3 (33.33%) PaaS
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (11.11%) AWS
6 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) DHCP
2 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 4 (44.44%) VPN
3 2 (22.22%) Network Security
4 1 (11.11%) NAS
4 1 (11.11%) SAN
4 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
4 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Security Officer
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Security Officer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Storage Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Security Posture
2 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Runbook
3 4 (44.44%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) ITIL
3 4 (44.44%) SOAR
3 4 (44.44%) Zero Trust
4 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity
4 3 (33.33%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) Cost Management
4 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (33.33%) Identity Management
4 3 (33.33%) Operational Stability
5 2 (22.22%) Key Management
5 2 (22.22%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Bicep
2 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) NCSC
2 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (22.22%) NIST
4 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (11.11%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (44.44%) Hyper-V
3 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) VMware