SIEM Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

SIEM Engineer
England > South West

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in the South West is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 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
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 137 159
Rank change year-on-year +27 +22 -
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.16% 0.075% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.081% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £540 £622 -
25th Percentile £563 £627 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £644 £800
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -19.53% -
75th Percentile - £655 £825
90th Percentile - £656 -
England median daily rate £600 £635 £650
% change year-on-year -5.51% -2.26% -0.05%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 1,706 2,460 3,161
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.90% 92.34% 95.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 975 1,534 2,182
10th Percentile £223 £225 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +1.40%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £719
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 279 276
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.69 £18.18
25th Percentile £18.13 £37.07 £39.04
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +10.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £70.79
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.23 £43.86
% change year-on-year -45.60% +5.40% +66.34%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in the South West

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SIEM Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SIEM Engineer job vacancies in the South West

SIEM Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Gloucestershire - 3 £600 - 1
SIEM Engineer
England

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 6 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 South West region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (66.67%) Case Management
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (66.67%) logstash
2 2 (66.67%) Kibana
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (33.33%) Event Correlation
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) NIST

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Case Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Event Correlation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Security Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) SOAR
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
1 2 (66.67%) logstash
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft