SIEM Contract Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire requiring SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SIEM 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Lanarkshire 25.00% - 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.27% - 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £614 - -
25th Percentile £621 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £632 - £650
75th Percentile £642 - -
90th Percentile £649 - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11 16 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 91.67% 88.89% 89.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 84
10th Percentile £535 £429 £250
25th Percentile - - £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -30.77% +62.50%
75th Percentile £610 £488 £700
90th Percentile £636 £670 -
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.87 - £16.71
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in South Lanarkshire

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in South Lanarkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing SIEM

SIEM
Contract Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

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 Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
East Kilbride - 3 £632 -
SIEM
Scotland

SIEM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 3 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk