SIEM Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SIEM Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median SIEM Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 350 369
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 +128
Contract jobs requiring a SIEM Engineer 35 7 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.047% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.051% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 6 29
10th Percentile £376 £546 £549
25th Percentile £426 £569 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £613 £800
Median % change year-on-year -16.33% -23.44% +52.38%
75th Percentile £619 £647 £825
90th Percentile £678 £653 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% +36.75%

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 16,356 13,848 18,397
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 92.36% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,052 8,265 12,022
10th Percentile £210 £213 £213
25th Percentile £369 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £591 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,646 795 1,208
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.41 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.08 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% -23.60% +48.33%

SIEM Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SIEM Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

SIEM Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SIEM Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SIEM Engineer in the UK excluding London

SIEM Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East -3 22 £430 -29.80% 2
West Midlands -26 8 £575 +1.41% 5
Midlands -34 8 £575 +1.41% 5
South West -5 4 £550 -14.56%
Wales - 2 £600 -
North West -26 1 £500 -4.76% 2
North of England -49 1 £500 -4.76% 2
Scotland - 1 £550 -
East of England - 1 £550 -
SIEM Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, SIEM Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) SIEM
2 28 (80.00%) Python
3 24 (68.57%) PowerShell
4 23 (65.71%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (60.00%) Threat Detection
6 20 (57.14%) SC Cleared
6 20 (57.14%) Security Cleared
7 17 (48.57%) Kibana
8 16 (45.71%) CISSP
9 15 (42.86%) CEH
9 15 (42.86%) GIAC
10 14 (40.00%) Incident Response
11 13 (37.14%) Analytical Thinking
11 13 (37.14%) Kusto Query Language
11 13 (37.14%) Network Security
12 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (31.43%) Tanium
13 10 (28.57%) FireEye
14 9 (25.71%) SOAR
15 8 (22.86%) MITRE ATT&CK
16 7 (20.00%) Data Analysis
16 7 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
16 7 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
16 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 6 (17.14%) Azure
17 6 (17.14%) Azure Sentinel
17 6 (17.14%) logstash
17 6 (17.14%) Security Operations
17 6 (17.14%) Splunk

SIEM Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) Azure
1 6 (17.14%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (5.71%) AWS
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (2.86%) GitHub
3 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (37.14%) Network Security
2 4 (11.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Git
1 1 (2.86%) GitLab
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 18 (51.43%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.86%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Cyber Security Posture
2 6 (17.14%) Operational Technology
3 5 (14.29%) Onboarding
4 3 (8.57%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) MISP
5 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) SIEM
2 23 (65.71%) Cybersecurity
3 21 (60.00%) Threat Detection
4 14 (40.00%) Incident Response
5 13 (37.14%) Analytical Thinking
6 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (25.71%) SOAR
8 8 (22.86%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 7 (20.00%) Data Analysis
9 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (17.14%) Security Operations
11 4 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
11 4 (11.43%) Security Monitoring
11 4 (11.43%) Visualisation
12 3 (8.57%) Case Management
12 3 (8.57%) Data Visualisation
12 3 (8.57%) Roadmaps
12 3 (8.57%) Use Case
13 2 (5.71%) RBAC
13 2 (5.71%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 28 (80.00%) Python
2 24 (68.57%) PowerShell
3 13 (37.14%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (8.57%) Bash
5 1 (2.86%) Go
5 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 20 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 20 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 16 (45.71%) CISSP
3 15 (42.86%) CEH
3 15 (42.86%) GIAC
4 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) Degree
5 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) NIST
2 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) GPG13
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (48.57%) Kibana
2 6 (17.14%) logstash
3 5 (14.29%) QRadar
4 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.71%) Terraform
5 1 (2.86%) Ansible
5 1 (2.86%) Fluentd
5 1 (2.86%) Grafana
5 1 (2.86%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Tanium
2 10 (28.57%) FireEye
3 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (17.14%) Splunk
5 4 (11.43%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.86%) Google
6 1 (2.86%) IBM
6 1 (2.86%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow