SIEM Contracts in the Thames Valley

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 108 68
Rank change year-on-year +55 -40 +70
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SIEM 67 17 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.04% 0.75% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 0.89% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 10 70
10th Percentile £445 £498 £470
25th Percentile £450 £505 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £573 £590 £630
90th Percentile £600 £605 £650
South East median daily rate £511 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -13.35% +2.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,521 1,910 2,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.68% 84.70% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,084 1,691
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £401 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £624
90th Percentile £676 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 108 86
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.90 £15.13
25th Percentile £15.12 £22.50 £24.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £55.44 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.63% +10.88% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £66.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.37 £74.90
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +96.08%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SIEM

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SIEM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SIEM

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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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 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 +52 53 £511 -7.05% 25
Buckinghamshire +6 8 £525 -4.55% 4
Oxfordshire -2 6 £600 - 9
SIEM
South East

SIEM
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.49%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.87%) Azure
2 10 (14.93%) AWS
3 9 (13.43%) GCP
4 6 (8.96%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (7.46%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.97%) SaaS
7 2 (2.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.49%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.49%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (1.49%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (25.37%) Firewall
2 16 (23.88%) Network Security
3 10 (14.93%) VPN
4 6 (8.96%) BGP
4 6 (8.96%) OSPF
4 6 (8.96%) TCP/IP
4 6 (8.96%) VLAN
5 3 (4.48%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.49%) IPFIX
6 1 (1.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.49%) Git
2 1 (1.49%) GitLab
2 1 (1.49%) MLflow
General
1 25 (37.31%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (13.43%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Legal
3 6 (8.96%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.46%) Finance
5 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (25.37%) Analyst
2 14 (20.90%) SOC Analyst
3 13 (19.40%) Architect
4 8 (11.94%) SIEM Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) Consultant
5 6 (8.96%) Security Architect
6 5 (7.46%) Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Lead
7 4 (5.97%) Security Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) SIEM Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Security Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Senior
8 3 (4.48%) SOC Consultant
9 2 (2.99%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (2.99%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Migration Architect
9 2 (2.99%) Security Consultant
9 2 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) SOC Engineer
10 1 (1.49%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.46%) JSON
1 5 (7.46%) REST
2 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.49%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.49%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (28.36%) Security Operations Centre
2 17 (25.37%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (19.40%) CSOC
3 13 (19.40%) Security Posture
4 9 (13.43%) Onboarding
5 6 (8.96%) Management Information System
6 5 (7.46%) Cloud Native
7 4 (5.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (5.97%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (4.48%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (4.48%) Data Centre
8 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.49%) Clustering
10 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.94%) Linux
2 5 (7.46%) Windows
3 3 (4.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (65.67%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (56.72%) Security Operations
3 31 (46.27%) Incident Response
4 21 (31.34%) Threat Intelligence
5 19 (28.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 17 (25.37%) Security Monitoring
7 16 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (22.39%) Vulnerability Management
9 14 (20.90%) Threat Detection
10 11 (16.42%) Mentoring
11 10 (14.93%) SOAR
12 9 (13.43%) Cloud Security
13 8 (11.94%) CI/CD
14 7 (10.45%) Data Privacy
14 7 (10.45%) Forensic Analysis
14 7 (10.45%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 7 (10.45%) Proactive Monitoring
14 7 (10.45%) Risk Management
14 7 (10.45%) Security Architecture
14 7 (10.45%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 24 (35.82%) Python
2 17 (25.37%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.48%) Bash
3 3 (4.48%) Search Processing Language
4 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.49%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (32.84%) CISSP
2 18 (26.87%) Security Cleared
3 12 (17.91%) GIAC
3 12 (17.91%) SC Cleared
4 11 (16.42%) CEH
4 11 (16.42%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (16.42%) GCIH
5 9 (13.43%) GCIA
6 8 (11.94%) GCFA
7 6 (8.96%) CCNP
7 6 (8.96%) CCSA
7 6 (8.96%) CCSE
7 6 (8.96%) Check Point Certification
8 5 (7.46%) CFCE
9 4 (5.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (5.97%) AWS Certification
9 4 (5.97%) CCSP
9 4 (5.97%) CISM
9 4 (5.97%) DV Cleared
10 3 (4.48%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (25.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (23.88%) NIST
3 10 (14.93%) GDPR
4 6 (8.96%) HIPAA
5 5 (7.46%) Data Quality
5 5 (7.46%) PCI DSS
6 4 (5.97%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (5.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (5.97%) PSD2
7 3 (4.48%) SLA
7 3 (4.48%) SOC 2
8 1 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (1.49%) EU AI Act
8 1 (1.49%) ISO 9001
8 1 (1.49%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (14.93%) Ansible
2 8 (11.94%) QRadar
3 4 (5.97%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (5.97%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.97%) Terraform
4 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.49%) CSIRT
5 1 (1.49%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.49%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 30 (44.78%) Splunk
2 22 (32.84%) Microsoft
3 10 (14.93%) Cisco
4 8 (11.94%) ArcSight
5 7 (10.45%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (10.45%) Palo Alto
6 6 (8.96%) CheckPoint
7 5 (7.46%) LogRhythm
8 4 (5.97%) IBM
9 2 (2.99%) Proofpoint
9 2 (2.99%) Sophos
10 1 (1.49%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.49%) Darktrace
10 1 (1.49%) FireEye
10 1 (1.49%) Intel
10 1 (1.49%) Kenna
10 1 (1.49%) Qualys
10 1 (1.49%) Rapid7
10 1 (1.49%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.49%) Tanium