Event Correlation Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Event Correlation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Event Correlation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 - 401
Rank change year-on-year - - +97
Contract jobs citing Event Correlation 5 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.027% - 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% - 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £430 - £581
25th Percentile £438 - £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £618
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.67%
75th Percentile £525 - £635
90th Percentile £540 - -
UK median daily rate £488 £375 £618
% change year-on-year +30.00% -39.27% -8.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Event Correlation 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,635 13,009 17,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.98% 87.13% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,537 7,651 11,208
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,774 755 1,215
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.02 £31.52 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -29.17% +42.58%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Event Correlation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Event Correlation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Event Correlation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Event Correlation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Event Correlation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Event Correlation

Event Correlation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Event Correlation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Scotland - 3 £500 -
North of England - 2 £475 -
North West - 2 £475 -
Event Correlation
UK

Event Correlation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Fiddler
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Malware Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Application Performance Management
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (40.00%) Data Extraction
2 2 (40.00%) Data Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Forensics
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Malware Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks