SIEM Contracts in the South East

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring SIEM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SIEM over the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 123 98
Rank change year-on-year +41 -25 +84
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SIEM 86 64 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.42% 1.34% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 1.63% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 36 98
10th Percentile £425 £490 £470
25th Percentile £450 £517 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.56% +2.61% -2.54%
75th Percentile £569 £668 £628
90th Percentile £600 £771 £650
England median daily rate £550 £600 £606
% change year-on-year -8.33% -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year -3.70% -12.90% +17.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,181 3,923 4,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.58% 82.17% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,987 2,368 3,373
10th Percentile £239 £260 £250
25th Percentile £394 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 309 240
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £21.18
Median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +80.31%
75th Percentile £53.50 £70.18 £65.06
90th Percentile £70.38 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +56.36%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the South East

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SIEM

SIEM
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the South East over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the South East

SIEM
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SIEM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SIEM

SIEM
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +51 67 £523 -4.95% 32
Berkshire +57 53 £511 -7.05% 23
Hampshire -11 11 £500 -20.00% 16
Buckinghamshire +7 8 £525 -4.55% 3
Surrey +12 6 £475 -9.52% 4
Oxfordshire -5 6 £600 - 7
West Sussex - 1 £750 - 1
Kent - 1 - - 1
SIEM
England

SIEM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 30 (34.88%) Azure
2 15 (17.44%) AWS
3 13 (15.12%) Azure Sentinel
4 10 (11.63%) GCP
5 6 (6.98%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.65%) SaaS
7 2 (2.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.16%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.16%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 28 (32.56%) Firewall
2 18 (20.93%) Network Security
3 11 (12.79%) VPN
4 6 (6.98%) BGP
4 6 (6.98%) OSPF
4 6 (6.98%) TCP/IP
4 6 (6.98%) VLAN
5 3 (3.49%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.16%) DNS
6 1 (1.16%) IPFIX
6 1 (1.16%) LAN
6 1 (1.16%) NGFW
6 1 (1.16%) SSL
6 1 (1.16%) WAN
6 1 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.81%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.16%) Git
2 1 (1.16%) GitLab
2 1 (1.16%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) MLflow
General
1 27 (31.40%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (15.12%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.98%) Legal
3 6 (6.98%) Telecoms
4 5 (5.81%) Finance
5 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (27.91%) Analyst
2 16 (18.60%) SOC Analyst
3 15 (17.44%) Architect
4 8 (9.30%) Security Architect
4 8 (9.30%) SIEM Engineer
5 7 (8.14%) Security Analyst
6 6 (6.98%) Consultant
6 6 (6.98%) Security Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Developer
7 5 (5.81%) SIEM Architect
8 4 (4.65%) Lead
9 3 (3.49%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 3 (3.49%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Senior
9 3 (3.49%) SOC Consultant
9 3 (3.49%) SOC Engineer
10 2 (2.33%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (2.33%) Migration Architect
10 2 (2.33%) Security Specialist
10 2 (2.33%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.81%) JSON
1 5 (5.81%) REST
2 1 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.16%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.16%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (24.42%) Security Operations Centre
2 20 (23.26%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (15.12%) CSOC
3 13 (15.12%) Security Posture
4 9 (10.47%) Onboarding
5 8 (9.30%) Management Information System
6 5 (5.81%) Cloud Native
7 4 (4.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (4.65%) Cyber Security Posture
7 4 (4.65%) Public Cloud
8 3 (3.49%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
8 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.33%) Operational Technology
10 1 (1.16%) Clustering
10 1 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.95%) Linux
2 9 (10.47%) Windows
3 3 (3.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (68.60%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 38 (44.19%) Incident Response
4 27 (31.40%) Threat Intelligence
5 25 (29.07%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 20 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (23.26%) Security Monitoring
7 18 (20.93%) Vulnerability Management
8 16 (18.60%) Threat Detection
9 13 (15.12%) Mentoring
9 13 (15.12%) Risk Management
10 12 (13.95%) Cloud Security
11 11 (12.79%) SOAR
12 8 (9.30%) CI/CD
12 8 (9.30%) DevOps
12 8 (9.30%) Information Security
12 8 (9.30%) Security Architecture
12 8 (9.30%) Threat Modelling
13 7 (8.14%) Data Privacy
13 7 (8.14%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.91%) Python
2 19 (22.09%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.98%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (3.49%) Bash
4 3 (3.49%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.16%) Bicep
6 1 (1.16%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (30.23%) CISSP
2 23 (26.74%) Security Cleared
3 15 (17.44%) SC Cleared
4 14 (16.28%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (15.12%) GCIH
6 12 (13.95%) GIAC
7 11 (12.79%) CEH
8 9 (10.47%) GCIA
9 8 (9.30%) DV Cleared
9 8 (9.30%) GCFA
10 6 (6.98%) CCNP
10 6 (6.98%) CCSA
10 6 (6.98%) CCSE
10 6 (6.98%) Check Point Certification
10 6 (6.98%) Degree
11 5 (5.81%) Azure Certification
11 5 (5.81%) CFCE
12 4 (4.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (4.65%) AWS Certification
12 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (25.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (20.93%) NIST
3 14 (16.28%) GDPR
4 9 (10.47%) HIPAA
5 6 (6.98%) PCI DSS
6 5 (5.81%) Data Quality
7 4 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (4.65%) PSD2
8 3 (3.49%) SLA
8 3 (3.49%) SOC 2
9 1 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (1.16%) EU AI Act
9 1 (1.16%) GAMP
9 1 (1.16%) ISO 9001
9 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.16%) NIST 800
9 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (4.65%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (11.63%) Ansible
1 10 (11.63%) QRadar
2 5 (5.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.65%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (4.65%) Terraform
4 3 (3.49%) CSIRT
5 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.16%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.16%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 35 (40.70%) Splunk
2 29 (33.72%) Microsoft
3 12 (13.95%) ArcSight
4 11 (12.79%) Cisco
5 10 (11.63%) Palo Alto
6 9 (10.47%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (6.98%) CheckPoint
8 5 (5.81%) LogRhythm
9 4 (4.65%) IBM
10 2 (2.33%) Proofpoint
10 2 (2.33%) Qualys
10 2 (2.33%) Sophos
11 1 (1.16%) Darktrace
11 1 (1.16%) FireEye
11 1 (1.16%) Intel
11 1 (1.16%) Kenna
11 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.16%) SolarWinds
11 1 (1.16%) Tanium
11 1 (1.16%) Zscaler