SIEM Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SIEM Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median SIEM Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £560, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 364 409
Rank change year-on-year -24 +45 -
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Architect 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.006% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.007% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £526 - -
25th Percentile £547 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
75th Percentile £608 - -
90th Percentile £693 - -
UK median daily rate £560 £800 £570
% change year-on-year -30.06% +40.35% +3.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 15,959 15,068 19,162
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.96% 92.39% 93.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,868 8,671 12,572
10th Percentile £208 £213 £213
25th Percentile £363 £373 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,567 1,012 1,261
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.10 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -25.84% +78.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.47 £73.48 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%

SIEM Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SIEM Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SIEM Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SIEM Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SIEM Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SIEM Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

SIEM Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM Architect in the UK excluding London

SIEM Architect
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 SIEM Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
South East - 5 £559 -
West Midlands -24 1 £700 - 1
Midlands -32 1 £700 - 1
SIEM Architect
UK

SIEM Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, SIEM Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring SIEM Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) SIEM
2 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) SaaS
3 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 4 (66.67%) Splunk
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (16.67%) Bicep
5 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Docker
5 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (16.67%) Information Security
5 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (16.67%) Kibana
5 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
5 1 (16.67%) logstash
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (16.67%) NIST
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry

SIEM Architect Skill Set
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 4 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) CSOC
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) SIEM
2 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Information Security
4 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Zscaler