SIEM Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

SIEM Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £380, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 August 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
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 - 127
Rank change year-on-year - - +54
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 5 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.30% - 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% - 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £340 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - £470
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.92%
75th Percentile £445 - £545
90th Percentile £494 - £618
South East median daily rate £380 £625 £470
% change year-on-year -39.14% +32.98% +50.40%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,517 2,068 2,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 91.46% 94.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 1,185 1,809
10th Percentile £273 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £505
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% +1.22% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £615
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 116 91
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.61 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £22.56 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.34 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -56.89% +20.53% +154.74%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.73 £66.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £88.75 £74.79
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +122.22%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for SIEM Engineer in the Thames Valley

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SIEM Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SIEM Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM Engineer in the Thames Valley

SIEM Engineer
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 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
Berkshire - 5 £380 - 3
SIEM Engineer
South East

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 27 August 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 Thames Valley region featuring SIEM Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) GIAC
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 4 (80.00%) CISSP
2 4 (80.00%) QRadar
2 4 (80.00%) Threat Detection
2 4 (80.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 4 (80.00%) ArcSight
2 4 (80.00%) CEH
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Tanium
4 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (20.00%) FireEye
4 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (20.00%) CSOC
4 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) JSON

SIEM Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) CSOC
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 4 (80.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) GIAC
2 4 (80.00%) CEH
2 4 (80.00%) CISSP
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) QRadar
2 1 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ArcSight
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) FireEye
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Tanium